I see I was somehow unclear. I am uninterested in selling beads here, that's what shops are for. I'd rather swap beads than sell them (especially for some kinds of bead); and the only reason any of my beads are up for sale somewhere is because, not having discovered this community at the time, I'd nothing else to do with them.
My questions stem from having read the original post. I read it, reread it, then posted my questions, because it doesn't address my particular situation. Is it in fact stating that any beader who, not yet having discovered this site, put up some of her destash for sale in an attempt to get her stash under control, is unwelcome to conduct any swap transactions here whatsoever?
The purpose of the rule seems to be to keep in individual beaders trading beads they don't need, and keep out commercial companies from basically overrunning the boards with spam. And rightly so.
I do sell some of my destash on another site. Say I have an artisan bead, I can't use it, I've not listed it for sale and I'd rather trade anyway. According to my understanding of the rules, I and my artisan bead are unwelcome to swap here because some of my other beads are listed somewhere.
No amount of rereading the original post is going to clear up this confusion. In fact, it would have been monumentally stupid of me toclick on this topic and post a question without ever having read the original post.