Feedback Infraction Hunting Over-Zealous Moderator

A few minutes ago, I just posted another post and I made sure all links were correct. I made sure no link was masked or was an affiliate link.

Yet, a few minutes after I posted, I got an infraction and the post was removed. Do you see how this works?

Am I being instantly hunted or what?

What crime did I commit this time? I didn't break any rules.

Here's the reason given

I posted in the forum I was advised to post in (on another thread in this forum) and I made sure they were not affiliate links.

Show me what I did wrong!

JH

 

For one time's sake, she's right about it. I've seen the offender posting affiliate links.

 

Well I haven't been active for almost 10 months. Then I come back, make a post in the Suggestion/Feedback forum and suddenly several Moderators have enough time to read through several 100 posts of mine up to 1 years old and dig for every single little dirt possible.
That simply shows some moderators really do like to play big brother and have enough time to go through several 100 posts up to 3 years back of one single user.
Are you telling me that's a normal community managing behavior? Come on Shawn, you're the founder and owner of the board, you're active every day and from the looks it seems the number 1 complaint reason are the infractions given out. At some stage you have to notice that your moderators are being over protective and hand out unreasonable infractions.

Tell me, what is the point if sending out infractions for tiny mistakes that users have made 1 to 3 years back? You can't possibly be that blind not to see that this is a big brother like behavior used in China and North Korea.

 

Actually, that's exactly how I saw it. If it says no affiliate links, then that does not mean that I can't put affiliate sites on the resulting site.

If I make a post about gardening and lead them to my authority site about gardening, yet it has affiliate links in the banners on that site, will you catch me for that too? How far do you go? When is too far, too far?

 

ok, and which section am I expected to post in if I wanna talk about the empower network, without being accused of breaking the rules again?

 

Mods are dealing with tons of spam and the are having a hard time - maybe sometimes they mess up... but guys, give the mods a break - they are also humans..

 

Didn't you tell me to post it in the buy, sell trade section for opportunities?

 

I definitely agree with the fact that updates via PM should be sent for controversial infractions or your own threads deleted. Mods should be more open about their actions when they take disciplinary action such as deleting on of your threads.

 

Can I reference my affiliate link in my signature in the post I make?

Which section is appropriate to explain the empower network?

 

Yes, when I posted there, it was removed.

I'll post there again, but don't infract me for the hell of it.

 

I'd rather you didn't put a link there at all.

My link does a better job of explaining it than the official site.