While not all, many of the artists who sell stuff in Marketplace are also active in providing Free Stuff and offering advice in the forums. That makes it hard for me to complain about the occasional advertisement in this Forum. If the forums were packed with product advertisements, I might feel differently, but advertisements still seem to be a small proportion of the overall posts here.

What I would like to see, though, is more comment on products to help me better choose whether to buy them. Theoretically, there are comment sections in the MarketPlace. However, since I have never seen a bad comment attached to a MarketPlace item, I suspect that bad comments are not allowed, and thus MarketPlace comments are not very useful as a guide to buying products there.