Please do not lose track of the one distinguishing thing that will make this project worthwhile: NO SELLING!!! We can't get along without markets, but any place that sells cannot be trusted to provice objective, unbiased, community information. This is one of the few eternal absolutes.

I was a reviewer at Amazon for years (Top 100 for about a year before I demanded that they pull my reviews and remove me from the list), and a "review" at Amazon is censored and distorted to sell product. The top "reviewer" at Amazon is a notorious (almost famous) hack who posts plagiarized dustjacket notes as reviews of the 20-40 books she supposely reads per day. Amazon refuses to do anything about it because all her reviews at four and five stars, be it schlock or Dickens.

The history of Poser communities is littered with places that slipped quietly down the slope from public service to "how can we make some money on this poopy." It's about as inevitable as checking your ethics at the door in law school. If a new community cannot survive without selling, then frankly, it's just another burger joint, and I don't need it.

M