Once again, I banned the profiles (which I know you agree with). My subsequent post about the information leading to the ban was originally intended for another forum/website where Stanley and others were all but demanding to know more specifics about why those profiles were banned. (It seems to me that some were not expecting the information to be as, well,
thorough as it was.) I was not allowed to post that information at that forum/website, so I posted it here (which I was considering doing anyway, since some of the people from the other forum/website were coming here making the same requests). Given the information that I posted, what kind of response did you expect?
In my opinion, this situation is not a minor one--far from it.
Herandu alone has 1173 posts here, a substantial portion of which were about Beresford products (to say the least). I have, unfortunately, read
many of that username's posts where, in my opinion, it was not only promoting Beresford products
heavily (and denying any affiliation along the way), but was, to my mind, concurrently and frequently slamming any products that would be considered competitors.
It seemed to me that
DC Lee was well on its way down a similar path.
While I do not agree with what MatsudaMan is suggesting, as far as measures go, I know for certain I'm
far from alone in this community in being more cautious about the topic at this point; and it will take some time before that dissipates.
If you see this as no worse than the typical case of fanboyism, then, again, you and I simply disagree. Again, several were requesting the information I posted to be posted, and I posted it. Given what was in that information, I am not particularly surprised that there would be a rather emotional response, one way or the other.