Re: post maybe should be in market forum

Hi Megan. Thank you for the explanation.



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hope this explains better....it is not directed at you personally, or rabbitears, I hope this is clear as well, it's about post content.
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I'm sure it's not a personal note, I mean, why would it be?
Nevertheless, please let me try to understand your point a bit more:




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the point is promotion for profit (not saying this is intentional, only that which has occured)...I'll try to clearify...

The rules are, if you are in any way associated with a business (product or service) you are not allowed to mention it in your personal story in Support Forums . This means associated in any way, ie you don't have to own the site proper, or the forum...the point is association in ANY WAY to that business....this is promotion of products/services, and not allowed. It's a conflict of interest.
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Ok, I understand this part, seems clear.






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The microbe detective forum is classified as promotional, and within the forum, it's described as promotional for the web site, which offers services for profit. You are associated with both these places.
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True.







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I'm not saying it's bad!

And I'm not saying your contributions here or any of these other places are bad.
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Correct. I've never understood it that way.







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I'm only saying promotion is conflict of interest on Support Forums and not allowed.

hope this explains better....it is not directed at you personally, or rabbitears, I hope this is clear as well, it's about post content.
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I understand. In other words, your point is that because the post in question points to the "M.D. Forum" [an action that could be seen as a 'soft sell' from your words], it's a conflict of interest according to the rules, correct? Then, if the post hadn't mentioned the "M.D. Forum" or given a link to it, everything would have been 'fine', correct?

In that regard, wouldn't the statement "It's a POSSIBLE conflict of interest" be more accurate, re: the post? Or better yet, "It COULD BE a possible conflict of interest"? Both of those statements expressed that way are true, because they could be conflicts of interest, yes, but then again, they could be not.

If we follow your logic above, then I'll breach the rules anytime I invite anyone to check out the M.D. Forum for any reason, even if it's not [directly] for business, because it could be understood that it's for promotional purposes because I'm "involved" with the Forum.

There may be some ambiguity right there, I think, because it could be derived that anyone else involved with a forum that later on invites another person into that forum through a post [with the same forum category the M.D. Forum is in, for example], will be breaching the rules, even if they're not selling or trying to sell anything 'directly' in the first place.

This sounds like politics to me, a thing that seems to delve into the (sub)realm of Political Correctness, in my opinion, which is a concept that I detest openly for reasons such as these, among many others. That's where 'interpretation' comes in, and that's why I like Objectivity in Truth so much.

And speaking of interpretation, if it were applied in reverse in the same fashion, I or anyone could interpret that ever so subtly you're trying to bring down DD's effort even before it starts by the nature of the error in your comment itself -a possibility which personally I don't 'see' but definitely one that could be 'seen' and interpreted by anyone upon close inspection, along with any other as silly as that one, envy included. That's an example of a clear interpretative possibility that exists, yes, but that isn't necessarily so. It's not a suggestion of any kind from my part either, please understand, it's an example applied in reverse.

Many more things could be interpreted as well, many negative, any positive. This is what I call speculation, and it's what I try to avoid as much as possible, as I've said it before on several occasions.

[A lot of people on this planet have suffered greatly because of interpretations, and if you think about it, the subject of (mis)interpretation is what this parasite Forum is all about, because it has to do with it directly, everytime a doctor makes a wrong diagnosis and sends a patient home to die because of a wrongful interpretation of data, whether or not the patient's infested by 'parasites' or afflicted by anything else. For example, "bad" interpretation happens everytime a Cyst [parasitic?] is misdiagnosed as a Cancer:

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http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/ovarian-cysts/DS00129/DSECTION=2
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It also happens everytime a patient is sent to the 'looney bin' because of D.P. ["Delusional Parasitosis"], and when a patient with Obesity is judged and treated as a filthy slob, ordered not to eat so much and is dismissed 'with a [not so gentle] kick in the rear', figuratively speaking.

The same happens all over the place too, it seems, in the streets, in the classrooms, in the senate, with this damn war and with so many men and women being sent to prison based on interpretations alone, my thought. Now it could be happening right here, too.]



If your interpretation of the concept and the rules for the forum regarding my post are or were correct, then I should choose very carefully what I'm going to post next regardless of my [possibly good] intentions, because afterwards the post could be understood by anyone as a "self-promotion" post, a 'soft sell', even when my intentions are or could be far from the world of business, which factually they are. Afterwards, I'd also have to 'prove' myself innocent in front of everybody [re:breaching the rules] because of an opening presumption of guilt based on such interpretations of the rule. In order to avoid this, I would have to possibly hold myself back from sharing information, simply to not offend or to go along with conformity, in other words, to be "politically correct". In this regard, I think that we would all lose opportunities to inform ourselves a little more.

I've faced this more than perhaps you'll ever know, and it's part of the reason why I chose to not have anything to do with the world of politics in the scientific community.

Everyone is entitled to form an opinion, so no matter how hard I tried to please every single mind on the planet, there would always be opinions against what is done and what is said. This is part of the futility of P.C., my thought, and it may be part of the reason why the U.S. is down-sloping, according to many. Because of it, why should I try to accomodate Truth in vain to fit it into a profile of conformity? I wouldn't and couldn't do that.

Finally, to help clarify the issue even more, if you wish please go ahead and read a short post which I'm preparing right this minute and which should be made available inside the "M.D. Forum", where it belongs. Look it up; it's should be called "The M.D. Forum - Notes and comments, some of its history", or something close. Tweet