What is the point of these forums if you are not allowed to ask opinions?

I just had a post deleted in which I asked for recommendations.
I was told in a PM that I had to pay for a ‘I am hiring’ thread.
But I don’t want people contacting me offering their services, I want recommendations from Sitepoint members.
I run a very busy forum and I have to say that the whole point of a community is the ability to ask and share advice and information.
Yet I am not allowed to do that here at Sitepoint.

The owners of this forum can run it however they want, but I stopping people from asking for recommendations is, in my opinion, a mistake and a serious error in the running of this forum.

I will contact you via PM to discuss this

thread closed

Edit:

Issue resolved

So what was your question?