As I told RayRay, I don't care if somebody makes a shirt that says "NT" on it in a way that doesn't make unauthorized use of the site's name or logos.
We love the fact that there's such a strong sense of community here and that people want to represent that. However, because we all care about our community, we have to protect it.
We can't allow unauthorized products to represent the site - especially in the context of potentially infringing on someone else's rights. We also can't allow people to commandeer threads to organize sales, let alone mass sales, outside of the designated buy/sell area.
I think that should be fairly easy to appreciate.
If somebody has a bad experience with a NikeTalk fitted cap, we can control that. We know who made it. We know where every penny of the purchase price went. We could ensure that 100% of the proceeds would benefit the charity of our choice. We could ensure that the design didn't infringe on anyone else's works - like, say, Nike's, as an obvious example.
What happens if someone creates an unauthorized product and something goes wrong? The community and its reputation may be unfairly harmed, and that's not something we can permit.
IP litigation can be, and sometimes has been, taken to farcical extremes, but we're not going to claim ownership of the letters "NT." If you guys want to print up something on your own for fun, it's whatever. What was discussed here exceeded that and, by organizing the sale here in this thread rather than in buy/sell, it violated the forum rules.
This was and should remain a Supreme thread.
@ that pic above.
