Strange email from iVillage

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-19-2005
Strange email from iVillage
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Mon, 03-05-2007 - 11:35am

So the other day, someone posts about "Cheating while Married" on our little board and I post the following response:

"Interesting. I previously believed marriage meant "for better or worse". Doesn't that include symptoms of boredom? Fix it or split"

Today, I get this in my email from iVillage:

"We are writing to you today because we have removed two of your messages (copied below) from one of our message boards. This is a gentle reminder about Terms of Service http://www.ivillage.com/about/0,,qr4p,00.html as well as Rules of Play http://www.ivillage.com/boards/0,,b46m,00.html and has not been logged against your account.
When you see posts that seem attacking or disruptive or otherwise violate Terms of Service please click on the ‘report a violation’ button within the body of that post to report it to the Community Team, we then ask that you ignore the messages while we have time to address them appropriately behind the scenes. All posts that are reported will be reviewed and if they meet the criteria in place they will be removed. Posts to the board to report problems could be considered board disruption and result in your own post being removed.
If there is a particular member who is bothersome to you, you can place that member on your ‘ignore’ list by clicking on their member name and then clicking ‘ignore’ in their member profile. This will prevent you from having to see posts by them in the future. We also want to take this opportunity to remind you that the Rules of Play ask us to “agree to disagree, respectfully” We ask that you refrain from name calling. Name calling is against TOS and becomes a board disruption and personal attack.

We are currently working behind the scenes to take care of the issue that has arisen. Please remember that further warnings can be counted against your membership with iVillage, and continued issues can cause your loss of membership with us.
If you have any questions please feel free to email me at relationshipscm@mail.ivillage.com

______________________________ CMBethD Love & Sex, Assistant Community Moderator www.ivillage.com"

This has to be a joke, right? I didn't name call or attack...so needless to say, quite perplexed here. Also, I have no idea what other post they are referring to since this was the only thing I posted in well over a few months. Feedback, anyone?

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-17-2002
Mon, 03-05-2007 - 12:38pm
I didn't see the original post or your reply, but if that person reported you, then the moderators take a look at it and if they for some reason feel that it violates the TOS for the reason the person stated, then they will send you that slap on the wrist and remove the post. Personally, that doesn't sound like a personal attack, but if the OP took it that way and reported it, then the moderators could have taken it off for that reason.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-01-2006
Mon, 03-05-2007 - 7:22pm
I think an entire topic was removed this morning, and yours was just one of the responses to that post, so you received that generic e-mail b/c your response was included within that topic. It was an advertisement/spam for a website, that was introduced by a "poster" who said she was looking on-line for something on the side. I don't know why they said two of your posts were pulled if there was just one . . . .
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-31-2005
Tue, 03-06-2007 - 6:46am
If you have a question about this, I would definitely contact the CM. Only they could really answer it, you know?
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-02-2007
Tue, 03-06-2007 - 11:24am

If at anytime you feel that your post was pulled for a false reason you should immediately contact the moderator that sent you the notice of removal for clarification.

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