Dude, let me make a list of what you did wrong:
- Misleading trade
Putting 2.33 up there to intentionally trick people and gloat at is against the rules
- Advertising
Kind of self explanatory, you were advertising a non-trade-related link in your post. The only links you can post as far as I recall is for trade offers and links to your other open trades.
- "Encouraging users to protest by creating troll and misleading trades. This is a trading website, not a forum."
Finally, last thing is what the Outpost Moderator said when he closed the trade. You were rallying people to a cause that would manipulate prices to get keys down. Even if it was a rally to get prices to go up, it'd still be closed since it's still price manipulation.
On top of that, no one was even offering, just talking about the state of the economy, that's all fine and dandy, but it's the wrong place to do it, which brings me to the second part of the sentence: This is a trading website, not a forum. And that's exactly what it says, reply boxes are for offering on trades, nothing more. If you want to discuss the current state of the economy or whatever then do it in the backpack.tf forums, SPUF, here, I don't care. But, Outpost is meant for trading, you post your trade and what's for sale at what price, and that's it, nothing else.
I don't care if you turned out to be "right" after almost a year, but at the time, your post was ridiculous and was rightfully closed for violating the rules, and I'm proud of whoever closed it for doing his/her job.
I've seen TONS of misleading trades at said time, and there are still some misleading trades nowadays, although not complaining about key prices because people just gave up on that.
Also tell me why people are BANNED from keyvotes/discussions when they are in a "lower key prices"-group? I couldn't even talk on backpack.tf, and even if I tried, I would get banned (believe me, I saw someone discussing them there and he got banned).
Even if it's a trading website, it was the only way back-then to actually get people aware of the current key-state. See what happened by now: keys at fucking 8.66.
Hell, people are still complaining about key prices, I remember seeing someone going mad about keys for 8.66 on outpost some time ago, I can't find the trade atm though. You can't discuss key lowering things on backpack, it doesn't work.