Just to clarify, the For Sale & Wanted section is not for contributors only, I have just set it up so that contributors do not have to wait to have their ads approved. This is less of a privileged and more of an assumption, on my part, that if someone is willing to contribute to the running costs of TM, they are less likely to be a spammer. However, now that the secret benefit has been revealed, we may find that the TM community is inundated with sheepskin coat wearing spammers who are willing to donate 0.50 pence to bypass my system.
The long and the short of it is that (a) a lot of pending posts were lost (all those who messaged me have been contacted and asked to re-submit their ads) due to a glitch during the last month (6-weeks), (b) I have been very distracted and TM has taken a seat on the bench as a result and (c) I am massively tired of having to point people in the direction of -
THIS - only to have them totally ignore one, or all, my requests.
Being totally frank, I feel like the site is being used as a free eBay, Gumtree or any other old place to hawk junk. In far too many cases, people post something, sell it and we never see them again until they want to sell something else for free. That isn't being part of the community, that is taking advantage.
To those who do support the site in your words, donations and actions... thank you. I am always humbled by your approach to this community and appreciate the support more than I can say and it does mean a lot.
Thank you 
