That rule was there for a very long time. If someone joins the site, blatantly violates our terms to try to sell goods before they get banned, then we will ban them and refund their payments. We will not honor any transactions while they were trying to operate before getting caught. There are some types of content that we have always had a zero tolerance policy for.
What’s happening now is a very special circumstance, we no have interest in withholding anyone’s earnings. To ensure we can continue to pay people without issue we need to not lose our relationship with our financial partners, hence the extreme measures we are taking right now.
Hope that makes sense