One question : do we want to include in all our posts henceforth a short explanation of our hidden agenda, case by case ? Some will argue that this would burden them.
I’d recommend it, but not make it compulsory by any means. I’ll be trying to include one in all my future posts (probably just a sentence or two), but others are of course free to do as they wish.
Perhaps that explanation could be put in a comment rather than the body of the post, which would have the dual benefits of (1) putting the hidden motivations in a subsidiary position to the actual content of the post (where I think they belong), and (2) confining the discussion of them to a single thread, so the other threads can discuss the post on its own merits.
I’d recommend it, but not make it compulsory by any means. I’ll be trying to include one in all my future posts (probably just a sentence or two), but others are of course free to do as they wish.
Perhaps that explanation could be put in a comment rather than the body of the post, which would have the dual benefits of (1) putting the hidden motivations in a subsidiary position to the actual content of the post (where I think they belong), and (2) confining the discussion of them to a single thread, so the other threads can discuss the post on its own merits.