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[x339_]

I know some of you are getting off right now because I am banned, but you know there is that whole community development team thing that is having applications right now, and I really don't think having me banned during that is going to look very professional for the site.

People "advertise" shit in the spam forum all the time, and if it really got your panties that knotted you could've deleted it and gave me a warning, this is just pathetic.

So yeah, can I be unbanned now? It's unprofessional for com dev (which I know no one on staff gives a shit about, also pretty pathetic), and it's a petty ban anyways.

 

It may not look professional and yes you may have a thread for community development applications. That doesn't mean you can break rules simply because you think you'll get away with them. You've been a member of the forum for over a year now, so you should know the rules very well.

 

[Clashfan]

From IRC

People "advertise" things in the spam forum all the time. They do it in the market too with links to their sites

 

But they do not make those threads for the sole purpose of attracting customers to their website, it's more like: "Hey, if you prefer, you can check out using my website as well!"

 

[18:50] <x339> It's the spam forum, we've all seen people post links to websites so that people will go to them, this isn't any different. If it was different then I should have recieved a warning, and the thread could have been deleted. What about this guy: http://sythe.org/showthread.php?t=1490301 he was obviouslly given a warning, and his thread was closed. Yet I was banned for it. Obviously I wouldn't be stupid enough to do something I knew was against the rules, and given previous threads I honestly thought it was fine. But again, if it wasn't, a warning would've sufficed, because now we have all this bullshit to deal with.

I'm inclined to agree with him and definitely feel an advertising ban is too harsh.
The entire thread consisted of nothing but a link to the website, no advertising speech, no "join this website for reason X & Y" no nothing, just a link.

 

[MohtasaUnique]

How many times has grave been allowed to advertise his RSU thing? A ban is much too harsh for that. Besides, his site isn't another forum, it doesn't compete for the same kind of activity that Sythe.org uses. If we're going to start banning for advertising shopping websites, we need to clarify first instead of making an example out of x339 imo.

 

If we're going to start banning for advertising shopping websites, we need to clarify first instead of making an example out of x339 imo.

Exactly.

 

Yeah I'd probably say the 1 month ban was too much. Make a sticky clarifying the rule etc and then it's all good. It is unfair to make an example out of x339, especially without him knowing about it.

 

[Clashfan]

This ban isn't fair given how we've handled similar situations in the spam forum previously, I'm lifting it