Originally Posted by ridefar

I was going to say something to the same effect. I decided that as long as travel professionals are disclosing their status in their profile that appears beside their posts, there is really no harm. Readers can decided for themselves on how to weight a given poster's opinion. Speaking purely for myself, I have a *very* long memory when it comes to posts about a property by travel professionals and clear signs of bias. I won't say that leads me to discount their opinions 100% of the time in the future, that would be unfair. It is more like 99.95% of the time.