GeekVillage - professional or not?

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I would like to have your opinion about my recent experience with GeekVillage forum.
At the first sight I thought of them as really professional guys,
fighting spam and their "zero tollerance" policy looked promissing.

They have Barter/Trade forum, so I tried to put an adult package for sale there (under the name "activeco"), after carefully reading all the forum rules.
Next day I found my thread closed and me banned (probably) from the forum.

http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=20767

Well, what I initialy found about possible abuse would be usage of "bad" words in conversation, links to adult sites, etc. and surely not naming the domains you list for sale. BTW, there are strict rules about listing the names, which require all the details to be presented.

So I tried to use their bb-feedback form asking for explanation which failed and I sent them an e-mail with the same message.
No answer.

A few days later I decided to read again their rules (spread on 3-4 different places) and indeed found an explicit ban on posting adult sites for sale.
http://www.geekvillage.com/posting_guide_for_bb.htm

(10: Traffic Extraction - Advertising; #6. Adult domains...)

I sent another e-mail with my apologize for not being enough careful by reading their rules.
No answer.
Actually not a problem, I decided not to visit their site
after the first non-reply.

But something was wrong. I was surprised I didn't see that rule in the first place as I really tried to be thorough.
I went to Google cache and here we are:

http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cach....com/posting_guide_for_bb.htm+&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8[/url]
That's the page I saw.
Look at the same place: "10: Traffic Extraction - Advertising"

Now, I just want to share my experience in an example that professionalism is not always as it looks like.

 

[Edwin]

I'm not sure what your complaint is about... GeekVillage is a very warm community, and they have had strong warnings against anything adult-related at least as far back as January 2001. See http://web.archive.org/web/20010124050700/http://geekvillage.com/rules_for_bb.htm for the Jan. 2001 version of their rules.

I don't believe you're justified in complaining simply because you didn't read the rules...

 

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Originally posted by Edwin
[Bhttp://web.archive.org/web/20010124050700/http://geekvillage.com/rules_for_bb.htm[/url] for the Jan. 2001 version of their rules.

I don't believe you're justified in complaining simply because you didn't read the rules... [/B]

Thanks for your reply Edwin.
You are right.
Now, this is probably the most important part here:

"Our focus has never been and never will be to cater to a subset of the Webmaster community who are engaged in the legal "Adult" web site business. I will not and have not published this type of content and will not display or accept adverts from any Adult content vendor, merchant, or site.
...Given our "mainstream" focus, please do not post any link anywhere on this BB to a Adult oriented Website and or any content of an Adult nature."

I somehow skipped that part by fast reading all four obligatory, pretty lengthy documents ('FORUM RULES: READ ME BEFORE YOU POST ", "POSTING GUIDE", "TERMS AND CONDITIONS", "GUIDENCE - READ ME - ABUSE").

Yes, it was my fault.
I still think such important rule must be noted in 'FORUM RULES: READ ME BEFORE YOU POST ", at "Website For Sale-..." forum.
And I still think I deserved a reply.
(Bad) intention is mostly what counts in such cases.

Hereby I appologize for my part of the story.