Thanks for your reply SDR,
I am not trying to hurt you.
“Anyone who reads my posts recognizes the slants, parses through them, and keeps the useful part of,”
Those of use who are not buyers are supposed to debate around your slants? Are you sure that everybody so easily “parses” through them? What is not manipulative about expecting people to do so especially in someone elses forum and when they counter other more genuine imput?
A simple disclaimer that you are working the blog doesn’t make up for that in my opinion. It doesn’t make the slanted input you give any more real than the input of some troll. We can disagree but let’s be genuine about it.