Sorry: no public brand/sourcing suggestions PLEASE!

Apologies. We can't post brand/source suggestions (except clearly labeled paid advertisements) --

• Google & search engines are for 'live' searches, but finishing.com is a permanent reference (many thousands of our pages go back to the 1990's). Posting sources/links has left us wasting hours a week playing "whack-a-mole", constantly fixing breaking links & outdated contact info across a quarter million postings going back over 3 decades; we can't let the problem expand lest we be unable to keep up and the site devolve into a wasteland.
  
  
• People are only human, so seeing their competitors publicly praised has several times led to a race to the bottom -- the opposite of the Aloha spirit we're striving to encourage here :-(
  
  
• This site is only possible courtesy of our supporting advertisers. How could they possibly tell their boss that they're paying the costs of a forum where their competitors pay nothing but publicly steer the readers away?
  
  
• Spam
  • These days Spambot computers tirelessly auto-post spam in our forum 24 hours a day, and also alert people where to suggest their own products in our forum. We get 1000+ spams every day.
  
  
• Our "no registration" website makes it easy & safe to join the discussions -- no passwords, no data to hack -- but easy for shills to pose as satisfied customers (the IP address of a 'satisfied customer' has often matched a vendor's website).
  
  
• We generally can't prove that a "dissatisfied user" is an actual user rather than a competitor engaging in brand assassination either, so we're been threatened with legal action several times already. But posting praise while censoring criticism terribly misleads readers; so, since they'll sue us for posting criticism, balance demands that we not post praise either :-)

So, commercial suggestions only in private, and only when the poster requests private contact by posting an "RFQ" please.

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But technical discussions must remain public:

• We are operating a public technical forum NOT a private matchmaking service. Taking a discussion private disenfranchises all the other readers who were following it then got cut adrift. If you have technical (non-commercial) info to share, please post it or email it to mooney@finishing.com for public posting here so all interested parties can see it -- we have all the room in the world for anything you are willing to share.
  
  

Please enjoy this site for its camaraderie & public TECHNICAL discussions; but for sourcing ideas use our Directories of Advertisers or a search engine; and for product reviews & brand recommendations try Consumer Reports, BBBs, friends & neighbors, educational associations, industry trade groups, etc.

Thanks for your patience & understanding!