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UPDATE: this thread has been moved for general discussion.
LongeCity is -of course- an attractive platform for people with a commercial agenda. For years, we have tried to keep the forum relatively 'pure' by restricting product-and retailer specific discussions to a single sub-forum.
This policy is proving difficult to uphold. The moderators don't normally enforce it. (bearing in mind that every Immortality Institute member has some moderator powers) - in fact most users seem to value product and supplier specific discussions intermingled with 'pure' scientific exchanges. Does this mean we have a community mature enough to differentiate the 'wheat from the chaff' - or do we need to do more to enforce the policy? Maybe there are still other alternatives....?
When discussing the matter below, please resist painting a picture of the 'ideal world' - stay in the 'real world' instead as reflected in the current forum culture and if you propose that we do things differently, only suggest schemes that are realistic and that you, yourself, would participate in.