Hello @Lindi
Thank you for taking the time to look at this. Indeed there was no coordinated advertisement / recruitment attempt, just a simple error in communication from me (a new player to arma 3 and an even newer player on the ahoy servers). In fact I would even say this thread has more views than I have had time on your serverr playing the game!! (coming up on 30 views in less than 15 hrs).
Seriously though, I did look at the rules, (thank you for the link), but mishaps do happen sadly and I thought the near instant ban without any warning was a bit harsh. (I wasnt even in a public channel at the time). I was not given a chance to "defend" myself to the admin in question and had to come sign up to your website just to appeal something that could have been sorted in 5 mins.
All that said I understand you need to keep advertisement and especially recruitment attempts out of the server(s).
Thanks again for the help
P.S. I just checked in game if I could connect, ban is still in effect! -.-'