It's insane. They have the tooling to automatically lock my account because an ad doesn't follow the rules, but can't tell me while I'm making the ad? Why even let people submit invalid ads? What is the point of making it easy to sign up for adwords if new users are automatically banned in an hour?

Or terminate your account while you see ads for similar products (your competitors) still showing.

What is their reasoning? Exclamation marks are in almost every print ad since the invention of the exclamation mark.

I might be misremembering, but I recall reading that Facebook Marketplace used to disallow posts with a “$”. Which is hilarious from the outside.

are exclamation marks not allowed or is that just some absurd mistake by them?

depends: https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/14847994?sjid=16...

They surely aren't going to tell you what you did wrong. That's the real problem here.

"Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind." – Terry Pratchett, Eric

Mine was permanently suspended with no recourse for that reason. Many years ago though.