(January 14, 2014 at 8:26 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(January 14, 2014 at 8:22 pm)Waratah Wrote: Why was the first post a clear violation of the spamming rule?
Because it contained, in addition to the text of the post, a link to where the product described could be purchased. In *most* cases, we instaban people who do this on first post.
Fair enough. I would have call it a violation of the "no advertising" rule due to the fact that the text and advertisement was relevant to the forum(I know, just difference of opinion), therefore not a blatant attempt to advertisement.
I totally agree with the banning for the internal reasons.
I also understand that the investigation occurred due to a members report. It's just that to me outside activities should not matter because the rules do not cover outside activities.
