If I understand it correctly, she got a warning for "advertising" a product although it seemed like that was not her intention...then she mouthed off to the mods and that got her post-held.
I think it was because she posted advertising numerous times... first was the thread solely about the beachbody stuff that was only up for a short time and then removed, then she had the links to her beachbody in her signature, then she posted the FB page which linked to her beachbody stuff, then she made a new thread and reposted the FB page. So, I think it was just an accumulation of violating the no advertising rule over and over again. I am not a mod though, so don't know what the exact cause was.
Both of you are actually wrong.
Over 6 weeks ago, I posted my losing weight thread and posted a link to something I sell, that I shouldn't have.
At the same time, I posted that link in my signature. I got a warning for it and removed the link in my signature. It was my bad. I overlooked that in the TOS. The world moves on.
2 weeks ago, I posted my facebook page(not profile) in the blogs thread, because that is what I use to blog.
At the time I posted, that same link was on the page. A couple hours later, I realized and removed the link from my FB page. The next morning, I got an infraction for "advertising outside the classifieds". There was nothing on my FB page advertising anything. I
don't say I sell anything. I
don't even say, "if you'd like to know more, message me". It's strictly a blog to encourage people. Not a sell site.
I responded to the mod's message and asked them to please show me where in the TOS I violated something, because I wasn't finding it. Didn't hear back from them all day. The ONLY thing I could have violated was posting a non-vet related blog in a pre-vet specific blog thread. So, I made my own thread. Within an hour of posting it, I got another message saying infraction again. THIS time, they said I violated SDN's blog rule. "Facebook does not fall under the category of Blog by our definition and the promotion of self pages is not allowed", are the exact words. (go ahead and try and find that somewhere. I couldn't)(most blogs are about onesself, so by that invisible rule, ALL blogs are not allowed on SDN)
I sent back another message, again asking WHERE it says this on the SDN site. Because I could not find it after an hour of searching. I then left for a movie, came back 3 hrs later to discover I had been banned for 2 weeks. And still no message back.
I have brought this up with the Help Desk 2 weeks ago(when it happened), and they haven't been responding to the issue, either.
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Feels to me, like SDN likes to rule with an iron fist and not actually communicate. If someone had just responded to my messages, actually addressing the issue, then all would be fine. But to ignore your customer base(I pay, therefor I am a customer) completely and say your banned because of some invisible rule(with no fair warning about THAT rule. I was banned immediately following the quoted message above, with no prior notice about said rule), is not ok in my book.
So, take heed. There are a couple of you who have Facebook links in your signatures. Take them down, or you
could be banned one day, too.
(and yes, I am responding here. The question was asked here, I answer here)