The rules were carefully thought out before being put before the member body.
It is for your own protection. I suppose these requirements could be taken down and let the chips fall where they may.
Reports of people being ripped off would be deleted. "Sorry, can't help you".
Your problem, don't ask us for help recovering your lost property. Not our problem, you should have been sure the guy who stuck it to you was a long time member with a history here at Friendly and not some guy who saw a chance to make a few dishonest dollars.
We accept new members daily, on the other hand we reject new members just as often. There are a lot of bad actors out there, and every new applicant to friendly is SCREENED. We don't get them all, some slip through the cracks.
Believe it or not, we are looking out for all our members, and that includes you. If you truly think we are unfair or just singling out you in particular just because of a rejection to allow you to use the classifieds you are wrong.
This has come up before with other new to the forum folks. They accepted the fact that we mean well.