There are over 21000 free resources on the hub by who knows how many free creators. Most seem to be getting along with the rules just fine, myself included. A few years back some of us were worried that paid would take over but free stuff has kept pace.
What drove out free creators in the past was paywallers getting away with profiting financially off their free work and the mods not being able to effectively enforce the rules. In this regard, ash with all her thorns has done a lot of good work both in the resource submission area of the website with the var scanning, and automation of credits as well as requiring paid content to now be submitted for scanning. Paywallers used to be able to get away with a ton of BS that now they can't in large part thanks to all the hub changes and updates. These were changes that free creators had been requesting for years and drove several well known ones to quit because nothing was being done. These changes only took place after ash took over. Sometimes you have to take the bad with the good. I don't particularly love the new layout but I'll put up with it for all the added functionality and regular updates. We had a good 4 years where the hub was largely ignored and unchanged.
Well it sounds like she did more than warn you. If a mod tells you to stop, and you don't stop... even if it was some other mod that told you to stop, what were you expecting to happen?
The idea isn't to instill fear, it is to let you know to not be an idiot and try to fight moderation because it is pointless. Any website or service, most have in their TOS that they can remove you for
any reason. If a moderator anywhere warns you to stop something and you keep throwing walls of text at them, regardless of if you are right, you are likely to get nuked and I would say it would be your own fault for ignoring the warning. That is just common sense.
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