Well I can understand why it was seen as advertising. But it wasn't the goal to promote a server, it was just for people to reach me easily. I wouldn't have put it if I knew that server ips were forbidden too. I didn't intend to break the rules like that, I'm always sweating when I put a trade similar to another that I closed because I fear the relisting, so, you bet I would have been careful if I knew about that ^^.

So, to be sure, a referral link would be for example a youtube link or a phishing link or anything else?

Oh BTW, the fact that I mention Steam in my trade, does it count towards advertising? Now, I can't prevent myself to think about each word. Soon, I will ask myself if saying backpack.tf price or spreadsheet price isn't advertising :P

Hello,

I didn't find any post about that, so, I'm sorry if it exists and if I searched with the wrong keywords.

I'm generally good in English but as it's not my native language, sometimes, I may misunderstand something, like I've an hard time to understand the concept on relist despite having read several posts about it.

Is a referral link applying to server ip? Because I've put naively a server ip in my trade, so that people can join me easily and check if I'm on it or not (because when not on it, I tend to forget to accept invites). I did check the rules before putting my first trade and saw referral links or third-party websites. For me, a link is a clickable link, not a server ip. You bet that as an admin of a server myself, I check rules everytime I go into a server (or sites such outpost or backpack.tf).

Result: got banned for a day (didn't say anything, it's a day after all - though I could have asked to change "his trades" by "her trades" ;) ). But I've checked back the rules as I was kinda surprised that I would have missed such a rule about server. And I didn't see anything about them apart referral links.

So my question is: is a server ip a referral link? If yes, I'll go in the suggestion trade and suggest to add server ip in the rules because not everyone can grasp the subtility of that concept. I don't want people to have a similar experience because of a misunderstanding.

Thanks in advance for your answer