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Feedback Account upgrades NZ?

USMC06RET

USMC06RET

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Looking at the options for account upgrades and I was wondering what the NZ signifies in CAGNZ. It's likely a stupid question but the acronyms can be a little confusing without a site glossary of abbreviations and acronyms.
 
Hmmmmmm, NO

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I wanted to make sure there was a separation and we'll likely shorten the other one too. Having the word is not good because of anti-2A automated blocks. Thanks for the reminder to update it.

joefrank64k said:
It looks to me like ‘CAGNZ’ stands for ‘CAGUNS’ (GNZ=Guns) and denotes a recurring membership vs one-time?
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GNZ = guns. There's a lot of automated things that raise flags, certain terms is one of them. I had to do a lot of restructuring recently because many companies won't work with anything that says guns/bullets/shooting etc in the name or description.

This is one of the reasons I hope to build this site for small 2A businesses to leverage access to the CA market. Reddit, Google, Meta, etc won't work with 2A anything, it's more of a step child they put in the corner. With 2A growing, we want to provide an ecosystem for the niche. Rost Martin, Glock, Leupold, Dillon etc have ads here they aren't welcome in a lot of platforms. And this community is the right community for it.
 
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ikeo1 said:
This one is from IG, but its fairly common across everywhere. The video in question had the word "shooting" in the description but might also be because it is shooting.
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Interesting. Also interesting is that YouTube seems to have no problems with such material. How have the banks and other financial institutions treated you in this regard?
 
M_N04H said:
Shadow ban, wonderful
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Not a shadow ban, they have come right out and told him. A shadow ban is when they block (a user) from a social media site or online forum without their knowledge, typically by making their posts and comments no longer visible to other users.
 
USMC06RET said:
Not a shadow ban, they have come right out and told him. A shadow ban is when they block (a user) from a social media site or online forum without their knowledge, typically by making their posts and comments no longer visible to other users.
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This is a form of it. To be fair this is only because I know where to look. Most people don't know you can check your account to see why you're not being recommended. I do it on a few platforms. This is why I slowed down on armoryhq and texanarmory to build CAguns for a bit. Once this site is all buttoned up, i can do some things there.

Those sites are running on the new architecture and the final piece of the migration for this site. Hopefully once there, upgrades will be less frequent and more major updates. There was a lot of learning in the past year especially with how companies restrict 2A presence. We have to navigate it strategically and be up to date when they change things.

This is why I think its important to be united in the community as a whole and not factions tactical/practical, hunting/sport, etc. It's difficult to operate and navigate if you're new to the space, as I'm going through it.
 
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