&gt;if you didn&#x27;t pay to read it, you probably read an advertisement.<p>But your own comment (that I&#x27;m replying to) isn&#x27;t one, and we&#x27;re  not paying for it - you&#x27;re speaking to us frankly and off the cuff (and if anything, <i>against</i> your own interests on those other sites) because of the informal club-like forum that this is.  In the end I and any other readers here are giving you all due weight.  in exchange everyone else speaks frankly about stuff they know about.  You can read stuff here that probably posters are explicitly prohibited by their employers from posting.  some guy from (insert whatever state agency here) can probably post from a throwaway but still waaaaaaaaaaay in contravention of whatever their policies are, and with only a little bit of indirection.<p>So it&#x27;s hardly as simple as you suggest.  yeah you have to read through the bullshit, but this has always been true everywhere.  caveat emptor.