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Advertising or Information? 15-Jul-2005 At 9:50:23 AM oweng

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Personally I cant see the problem with those people lucky enough to have sponsorship admitting such in any post where they talk about gear they have as a part of the sponsorship.

Having a tag attached to each of their posts would look a bit dicky, and I dont think its required.

Those sponsored climbers may mention gear they are sponsored by on 1 or 2% of their posts. A statement included in those rare posts such as "of course chockstone requires me to mention im sponsored, so even though I really love these shoes (etc) and would recommend them anyway, you may want to take my advice with a grain of salt" just seems pretty easy to me.

If you phrase it right it shouldnt come out as snobby / elitist. Neither Jac's or Manacubus' posts have ever come across that way to me.

In the end, my opinion is that what is best for the site needs to be done. I understand from Mike that he doesnt have the time to personally moderate the site (I think this requires every post to be read for legal reasons etc).

There is a heavy reliance then on people like Neil and Dali who volunteer their time to do this (often thankless) task. They know what is required as part of the task, and I think within reason they should be allowed to make decisions on this type of thing themselves. Good on Neil for seeking everyones opinion, but in the end its not a big deal either way (to me as im not a sponsored climber...).