I see none of the other admins commented on this yet. You weren't banned by an admin, were you? I doubt any official admin would ban for recruitment, and they obviously shouldn't. Also, I'd say that poll-banning for that sort of thing is abusive behavior as well. Next time it happens, PM an admin.
I do have a hard time seeing that happening, though. You sure you aren't embellishing things?
Positive... not even sure if I'm still banned from it. They pollbanned me for recruiting and said "It's annoying". A bunch of people tried to defend me but majority rules.
I just checked, I forgot pollbans had timers.
Well, for the record, we don't regulate recruitment on official servers for obvious reasons. Although I'm not really surprised people got annoyed if you were recruiting for the "Fourth Reich".