[Banned for negative review in MP?]

Just now, Syo Emerald said:

Whatever you want to say by that...

Youtube is not SL and this thread is not about being banned from SL.

Read again, SL youtube channel shadowban you if you say something they don't like.  I'm not talking about insults.  Anything they don't like.  That's cancel culture right now and that's what's happening in society.  SL emulates RL in many aspects.  So it shouldn't have been shocking for me after 13 years in SL that these stupid politics entered. 

And what is the theme of this post: people cant just accept criticism.. and go ahead and cancel you, a whole community or whatever they want to.  A bunch of millennials that haven't face real world, like Evergreen University.

[Banned for negative review in MP?]

1 hour ago, Ultimo Constantineau said:

Firstly, sorry if this is in the wrong forum. Only option I saw for marketplace seemed to be for merchants only.

This avie just hit his 14 year mark over the summer. I've written many reviews pro and con. I've never been banned by a vendor for this nor did I even know this was actually a thing. Is this something that was implemented recently? 

At a recent event I noticed a vendor selling a few products I was interested in. The quality was very good, so much so that I decided to join their group to get updates and what not. So I attempt to join the group and get a message that I am banned from joining such group.. Hmm. As far I know I had not had any interaction with this brand before. I decided to try to purchase the items I was interested in. Cannot purchase item either. Still confused I decide to check the marketplace and see if I can buy from their MP store. Nope. Lastly, I did a search in my purchase history for items I bought from them previously and found one item and one review.

Granted, it was a rather harsh review. It was also blunt and honest. And when you sell things you kind of open yourself up to other peoples opinions. As someone who likes to buy things in this game it kind of rubs me the wrong way when a vendor name drops popular body brands when the item isn't actually fitted for either. In hindsight I believe this brand is kind of new and starting up so I did feel bad and deleted the review then apologized to the vender figuring this would be water under the bridge. A few weeks later, still banned.

I let this sit for a few days but it kind of ate at me and I felt the need to write about it. I don't understand why there are repercussions for negative reviews. Otherwise what is the point in having reviews? Why is this even allowed by SL? Also, from the vendor perspective, what is the gain in preventing someone from buying things from you? Once I hit that buy Ls tab the money is out of my pocket regardless. It's going to be spent somewhere.

So ultimately, the only thing I've lost is the real money I planned on losing to begin with (and maybe a bit of sanity for wondering why this is even a thing). Meanwhile, you lose any future purchases of mine or any suggestions to friends I might make and the suggestion they might ultimately make themselves. Not a big deal, but the type of product you sell are geared toward a relatively small (when compared to SL as a whole) community. One that I have been apart of since like 2008. 

Anyways, sorry this turned into a rant. Still don't get why SL allows this.

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SL can ban you.. well.. shadowban you if you say something remotely critical about them... just see all the comments in their YT channel... 5 or 6 comments and everyone praising the content.

The cancel culture is here! President and vice president are all about them.