I’m honestly surprised it’s come to this, but Boostmasterlin is going on the blacklist.

His aggressive and relentless marketing tactics will not be tolerated here. Yesterday, there was a post on his subreddit directing followers to share news of some “brand ambassador” promotion to our subreddit, offering users money/discounts for sharing the post to our community. Today, there were some obviously vote-manipulated meme-type advertising posts. We have even found evidence suggesting use of alt accounts and/or incentivizing users to make non-genuine marketing posts on behalf of BMLin. This has been going on for months, and we have been hesitant to take action because he is an old and experienced seller, who we expected to step in line after being warned. But nothing is changing, despite him being given multiple warnings. In fact, his behavior in the past 24 hours demonstrates a wanton lack of respect for the subreddit and our rules. So he is officially out. We aren’t playing any more games about it.

Right now, all posts mentioning BMLin are subject to removal by mods. Users making these posts are subject to bans, after one warning.

We advise BMLin to cease all marketing actions on the subreddit. If suspicious activity ceases and no attempts are made to circumvent the blacklisting, we may considered removing him from the blacklist. If this were to happen, it would likely be over the course of at least a couple of months.

As a friendly reminder to any sellers/promoters, our rule on advertising frequency is the same as Fashionreps’: One promotional post per 96 hours (Reviews/QCs don’t count). It’s not a hard-line rule, but egregious violations will be noticed and handled, like BMLin. Don’t be like BMLin! Hiring 16 year old MemeLords who don’t pay attention to the community rules, to be in charge of marketing your brand, is a dumb idea. I’m sure Mr. BoostMaster is going to regret making that call.

That’s all. Thanks everyone.