Unfairly target

[tantrumbean]

I think part of the problem is that there are now (at least) two different issues on this thread that have got mixed up:

One: The commercial selling aspect. This is clearly not allowed and if it has been established for sure that that is what the OP is doing, then obviously TE is totally within their rights to remove those posts. That's clearly covered in the forum guidelines, makes perfect sense and therefore should not really require too much discussion (apart from the fact that the OP's idea to what constitutes a commercial post does not necessarily match admins). I have not seen the posts, but I can see that there might potentially be a grey area.

Point 2 is the discussion if this should have been discussed publicly on the forum or not. Now that both admin and the op have stated what happened, it's pretty clear that there are two different versions of the story. I don't know which one is the right one, but both parties clearly feel they have done what they should have done to sort it out. Which leaves the discussion about should forum members be allowed to take things public when they feel (note the word: "feel") that they have not had the response they feel the issue warrants from admin.

Afaic that is a completely different point and has not necessary anything to do with the OP at all, it's a general issue that could probly apply to lots of situations.

I thinks it's throwing both those issues in the same pot that's caused this discussion to get quite heated and possibly caused members to misunderstand each others responses.

Maybe it would be worth adding a "Feedback" or "TE office" subforum, most forums I know have these, and it might be a good place to post anything from "Could the background colour be changed, I'm struggling to see it", "Anybody else having problems with the forum running slow?" to "Why was I not allowed to sell my puppy on here" and it would possible make some of the decisions taken in the background more transparent and a more public conversation with admin would allow everybody to get their views across.