The esoteric and ambiguously applied guidelines for Facebook pages have reared their possibly double-standard ugly head once again. This time, Manhunt's fan page is the victim. 

According to the popular gay dating/cruising brand, its Facebook page was taken down without notice on April 4. 

Manhunt shared the news today on its blog:

None of the admins on our page received any sort of warning or message explaining why, how long it would be down for, etc. It was just gone, and it still is. The screencap above is in place of where our page previously resided.

We have repeatedly filled out online form after form on Facebook, and sent numerous e-mails to any Facebook address we could find via research to ask for information on why our page was taken down and what we can do to get it restored. We have received a single e-mail back that gave us very little info and in fact asked the recipient of an e-mail that none of us received to get back to them. Replies to that single e-mail have not been responded to.

This isn't the first time a gay related Facebook presence has been suspiciously moderated, as you surely know. A month ago Facebook mods came under fire for taking down an innocuous picture of two men kissing in protest of homophobia.

Though Manhunt's content may have been a little more charged, did it warrant being banned without notice?

(H/T: JoeMyGod)

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written by Mark Brooks, April 27, 2012

Manhunt prides itself in being somewhat controversial. Its a shame Facebook took the route of pulling their page.

Mark Brooks
OnlinePersonalsWatch
usa 212-444-1636 / uk 020-8133-1835

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written by Gordon Smith, May 01, 2012

We have also had gay advertising refused and pulled off Facebook. For example a photo of a guy with his top off was disallowed as it was considered a sexual image. On other ads, similar imagery has been allowed. Our site (www.gaydatingagency.com) is not a cruising site nor is it focussed on sexual relationships.

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written by Liz James, May 01, 2012

Pink Sofa lesbian dating site, which contains no nudity and is a community oriented site also had it's original FB page taken down without any notice or warning. As soon as we hit 10,000 likes, we were noticed and down it came. We worked extremely hard to get those likes and suddenly went back to 0. I'd be interested in pursuing it further if you are ManHunt! FB are playing God and a homophobic one at that!!

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written by brian krauss, July 21, 2012

manhunts'd sue'em.

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