What I do have problem with, is the forum-wide constant spamming for it. I get the idea, but the realist in me knows that it's not something that can be forced upon the vendors. I always advocate the "vote with your money" moto. But I can not and will not become an annoying spammer in order to persuade people to act like it.
Let me help you see things from my perspective:
Login to Meso, hit New Posts.
Start reading.
First thread, a source thread, after a few posts there comes the unwanted spamming fart:
"Marcus, how about HPLC, GMS, Sterility etc etc"
You scroll down, and after 10 posts same post
You go to the other vendor threads. Same thing.
After a couple of days, it gets really annoying. Thread for China crackdown shenanigans, here is the white knight and his testing.
Interesting and illuminating perspective. It's just quite honestly difficult to see it from your POV.
When I go to random source threads, I often see dozens if not hundreds of posts from members engaging in completely off-topic discussions; I see the same in members arguing with each other and exchanging sophomoric insults; I see an unbelievable number of posts from certain obsequious members praising/defending the source.
This ends up burying the thread and effectively sabotaging efforts to provide useful/relevant information about the source in order to hold them accountable for their products/services.
So, the ONE member repeatedly pressuring sources to conduct additional analytical testing so the community can have additional data for the unregulated, black market substances they inject in their body? This guy? He doesn't really bother me much?
He certainly doesn't make the list of my concerns of issues that are compromising the harm reduction agenda of MESO.
And why should he? Promoting/pressuring sources to conduct more and more analytical testing of their products is about as on-topic as you get.
Really
@narta, I tried really hard to see it from your perspective. I did what you suggested, I examined some of
@readalot's posts that you characterize as "spam" harassing sources to perform more testing. And what did I find? Every time
@readalot "spams" a source thread, there are 5-10 posts from detractors defending the source or harassing and insulting
@readalot. They seem to be the worst offenders in cluttering or "spamming" the thread.
If you can so easily ignore the excessive off-topic discussions, member-on-member insults, and fellatory-level behavior of source sycophants, I am just baffled as to why you or anyone else would be triggered by demands for more product analytical testing.