However, you also act rude. Your role of policeman and arbitrator here is unwarranted. First, let's take a look at your contributions here. What have you brought here to the discussion? You have made 14 posts, about half of them involving arbitrating this matter, and now you are all of the sudden able to say that my comments should not be an accurate refection of this forum?
Firstly, I said that I hope people who read this forum do not take your comments as a reflection of this community. That is based on the differing opinion I stated in my prior post, i.e. on how, ideally, we should treat those new members who come to this forum and attempt to discuss issues relating to the topic. It is very evident that we disagree on this issue, and that is why I say I would personally like to see the forum go in a more open and welcoming direction rather than the contrary. I never insinuated that I am the perfect model for a contributor to this forum, but rather I expressed my opinion as to what I think constitutes appropriate discussion.
You need to raise your awareness by a few more notches, dopamine. While you may know how to search medline, I am afraid that you lack common business sense; free trade is based on the principle that the customer has the freedom to purchase products from wherever they please.
It is also a basic tenet of contemporary notions of the consumer marketplace that those considering buying a specific product ought to have information available to them about companies offering that good or service in order for them to make a well-informed decision. Therefore, if someone shares an experience, it is to be encouraged and not dismissed, because that person is contributing to the knowledge of the body public in general.
If you are in favor of freedom of speech - that means you’re in favor of freedom of speech for views you absolutely despise - otherwise you’re not in favor of freedom of speech.
I think everybody here would agree that it is far better to resume to discuss the topics in this forum which pertain to "Nootropics & Brain Enhancers." I think this forum has had enough of this kind of customer/client relations spewing crap. Thank you very much.
Yes, I agree. But I think this community is capable of carrying on discussions in more than one thread at a time.
Furthermore, this isn't the first time we have argued about this type of problem, i.e. communication between members. Back at Avant Labs, you began responding to people who were skeptical of the claims of nootropics in a hostile and bitter tone. In that community people spoke up because they thought it was completely unwarranted and eventually you admitted that your comments were unnecessary. Now we have what has happened in this forum: you have responded to someone who criticized your favorite nootropics supplier in a hostile and bitter tone. Again, people in this forum started speaking up because they thought it was completely unwarranted. These two instances have one thing in common: someone questioning what you hold to be true. When someone questions your pre-conceived notions, your amygdala flares up and the rage hits against the keyboard. But what you have to understand is that when people say things you disagree with, there are two ways you can deal with it: be civil and debate without involving a complex of emotions, or be uncivil and yell as hard as you can at anyone who disagrees with you. I assume that the members of this forum do not tolerate the latter and that has manifested itself as people speaking out against what you had said.
My purpose for responding to this type of behavior is that I see it go on in too many places and no one saying anything about it. I am glad and proud that this forum and Avant Labs has members that will not tolerate other members being harassed and dismissed - this is a virtue which many other communities lack (both online and off).
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