Jeffrey Varnado

Former Ebay Sellers vs. Ebay, Inc.
2014-05-24 04:16:26 (UTC)

Ebay Censorship of Discussion Boards

Ebay has ordered Lithium (their "reputation management" firm that monitors and moderates their discussion boards) to remove threads from their Seller Central discussion board about the recent hacking and/or relocate some of them to an obscure technical questions eBay discussion board (a moderator explained this yesterday in a post to a question about why the threads were disappearing from SC after half a dozen or more threads about the hacking had disappeared). Today, my posting ID received a 7-day ban and the following message from eBay: We're sorry, but you have been banned from using this site.
You have been banned for the following reason:
Violating the rules and policies of the eBay US Community, with actions such as Repetitive, disruptive, or inappropriate threads. Your ban is for 7 days, effective date 2014-05-23. Your Topics: Hacking of Ebay: What Will The Longterm Impact Be On Ebay? & Recent Hacking of Ebay Is A Publicity Nightmare & Why Did eBay Ask Lithium To Move Hacking Threads to Other Boards? & post "True John. Let's keep those threads about the hacking going here on SC. Make the mods earn their paychecks." Please refer to the Discussion Boards Usage Policy and the Community Content Policy to review the rules and policies of the community. Additionally, please adhere to these rules and policies in the future. If you feel your ban was in error, contact [email protected].
You have 10006 minutes remaining on the ban.




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