Speak to Mitch or Granville.
I tried last time before I deleted my account. Mitch said some may view it as advertising. Fair enough, but why can some advertise and not others? My examples above are clear examples of threads that are not locked or banned, but when I have posted similar, they are locked or deleted very quickly.
Granville seems to have an itchy finger and looks to lock my threads too. When I asked him why, he said he will allow some people to advertise and not others. He said if you are a bigger company, he will not allow you the same freedom as the smaller company.
The forum rules should not be open to the discretion of a mod as to what is advertising and what isn't according to the size of their company. It's either advertising or it isn't.
I am still yet to have a mod or anyone quote one of the forum rules to me that I have contravened.
Hello Steve,
See that bit in red? When did I say that? When did we even discuss it?
Also you said not long after starting to recently post on CIU again that you "had spoken to Mitch" - when I clarified that with Forum Admin I was told that you do not have clearance to advertise.
We discussed the 'bit in red' in a private email conversation when a number of my threads got locked prior to my closing my account previously. I asked you specifically why you were locking my threads. You said that I was advertising my training course. I asked for you to provide specific examples, when it was in fact, other people raising the subject of the training and details surrounding it. I sent you a number of links to other people's threads that were exactly the same as mine in nature, but on a different subject. You then said however other mods may act, you would give more leeway to a smaller contractor than you would a larger or more established company like mine.
It was a large part of why I closed my account. If a mod can use his personal view of the size of someone's company as to what degree he enforces the rules of the forum, it is dare I say it, discriminatory (not a word I use lightly) against larger companies. The rules should apply to all members equally, in spite of their company size.
I don't know how you mods communicate offline with each other or us members. But if you all share a server and the emails are saved on that server, it should be easy for someone your end to find the email that you sent to me. If you communicate with members individually, it may be more difficult to track the email down. I am also open to the suggestion that Tosh sent me the email if you are adamant that you didn't send it, but I know full well it's was a mod.
I had spoken to Mitch prior to setting up a new account about advertising and voiced my concerns about my paying money to advertise on a forum when the atmosphere against me and my business was so toxic. I have not yet parted with money to advertise on here, but nor have I advertised at all either.
If you feel I am guilty of advertising since I have re-joined in my comments, please post them below and explain why you feel it is advertising.
If you can explain what CIU mean on their Google ad to join and '
network' that may help me and others stay on the right side of the rules too.
Wikipedia provide a definition: "
Networking is a socioeconomic business activity by which businesspeople and entrepreneurs meet to form business relationships and to recognize, create, or act upon business opportunities, share information and seek potential partners for ventures."
According to your Google advert, I am invited to 'network', this involves creating business opportunities, which I have done and seek potential partners, which is what I have done. I am therefore using the forum exactly as CIU invite me to.
