If you read the rules the guidelines are pretty clear on this. If rcnuts was following these and the moderator made a mistake he can address it. I have my top moderator looking at this and asking him for more information to ensure he was treated according to the rules.

So you know the rules state and advertiser can start a new thread every 2 weeks at most announcing their product or news. the item must be a recent or future release. A non-advertiser can do one per month only. Follow up posts may be made by companies as well if they are "on topic" and do not solicit for sales or promote. If somebody asks "where do I get an aluminum chassis for my xyz buggy" a vendor may respond that they have an appropriate solution.

I don't know the specifics in this case of where the problem was but hopefully rcnuts will supply the requested info to "plane insane" so he can do a review of it and if all was according to the rules he will explain to him why. If an error was made we'll explain to the moderator why so they know for the future. Most of the time the mods get it right but we'll investigate any case where somebody protests. In this case rcnuts was an advertiser of ours so we'd like to make them happy if possible within the confines of course of the rules everyone has to follow.