We will make this as short and to the point as possible. Starting today, ban services of any kind are getting shunned. While we’re NOT completely eliminating them, as we know many of our service providers help scorned users fight for their online rights, whether it’s intellectual property issues, or someone using your business name to scam others, ban services (even though controversial) are very needed in many cases.
How-the-frick-ever, we have over 1000 of these listings on our website, and they’ve turned SWAPD into an illegal/warez/blackhat looking website. Just last night, we had publishers REFUSE to write about us (publishers who take money for articles, BTW), for the sole reason of having ban services listed. Yes, it FEELS bad, it makes us look bad, and no one cares that we really do try to vet each case as much as possible (we reject 40-50% of ban tickets). We never allow bans out of spite/hate.
This is why, starting today, if your service thread even MENTIONS the words ban/debadge/takedown/etc, it will be moved to our new category called Odd Services. The Odd Services section is only visible to users with Trust Level One or higher (which is reasonably easy to get), but it won’t be seen by guests, Google, nor newbie members. We hope that this move will keep both sides of the spectrum happy, as the sellers will STILL be able to operate, and will clean up SWAPD from looking like a hacking forum trash site.
Remember, if you bundled in multiple services (unban/bans/claims) into one topic, it will be STILL moved to the LESS visible Odd Services category. So, if you don’t like that, we suggest that you separate your listings, and keep the odd and controversial services separate from your good and white hat offers.
https://swapd.co/c/unique-services/odd/101
EDIT: In addition, ban services cannot be advertised ANYWHERE on our website via SWAPD Ads.
EDIT2: YouTube Takedown Video services are allowed in the YouTube Services Category. However, if your services include taking down a whole channel, they will be moved to the odd services category.
EDIT3: Debadge services also go to the Odd Services category.
