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Originally Posted by T9c Then maybe you shouldn't make such posts in a PUBLIC FORUM!
Can a moderator help here? This guy has a personal ax to grind in the middle of Town Square.
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Alright, I'll take your point. But I disagree with the temper of our statement. However, I respect your right to to just "say" it.
However, I believe you may be purposely overlooking my point, and I cannot make you see it otherwise if you do not want to. I don't know how or if you are affiliated, but there must be some impetus for your reaction. If I look at your point and take it at face value, what I see is that it does not bother you when a seller of a product jockey's for position in a thread without submitting that which is important to the discussion. Otherwise, your "reaction" could not make perfect sense.
But, I would ask you to also concede that this is the type of piggy-back-posting that makes anyone in my industry or any other look bad. The repeated attempts to simply "sign off" on another's opinion when a "poll" is not underway, only bolsters the point I am trying to make and that you seem to not want to accept.
This is not the time and is hardly the place (as I will concede respectfully) to discuss this topic, but I will say that this brand of drive-by advertising, and piggy back posting is a growing trend on GS and other forums and that veiled advertising does nothing for readers. It is a way to say "yeah, you're right, here's my URL or my web page where you can buy stuff" and jockey for position. If there is something in the post that adds something to the discussion, then it holds it's own water. Discussing Hemoltz resonators and their effect on single bands is one thing, but also adding that you simply agree with me, and agree with your other competitor does not make the thread "better". And as merchants and notables in our respective businesses, I think we should do what we can to make "posting" better and more pointed.
I hope some of this makes sense to you. I respect your opinion, but you made a "dig" at me that you simply cannot justify in my opinion without some affinity for my counterpart or some sympathy for this growing trend in free advertising.
I think it is time we (merchants) "try" to "begin" to offer our help in a way that does not not neccessarily showcase our repsective businesses or companies or perhaps in a way that is simply more "humble".
If you disagree, I can respect that too.
Respectfully,
Joel DuBay