I must confess that I don’t fully know what a mole is (although I was wondering if Madonna still has her mole the other day!), but I made a separate thread out of these posts so they won’t contaminate the mix post.
All I’ve really seen recently is some outside pressure to censor our forum. He’s not that explicit, but he wrote a thread in response to it.
That and some other dumb stuff almost made Michael, as a workaholic civil libertarian, nearly have a conniption fit. Most of that stuff is not really seen on the forum, though. It’s only hinted at.
For the most part, I’d say things are A-OK between us and most of the better companies mentioned on this forum. We even started to expand the acronyms of other company’s products into their full product names, to increase readability for all.
Generally speaking (not necessarily about the aforementioned company), most people here know that the pheromone industry has a sort of mafia like, thug element to it. More about profit at any cost, than anything else.
That’s why Michael started this company. To develop pheromones into a real technology. To do actual research & development like a real technology firm would. The opposite of how the “get rich quick schemers” that plague this field do it.
We’ve worked to distance from most of the pheromone “industry”. This was accelerated more than a year ago when we fired the bulk of our private label customers that use false claims and deceptive practices in their advertising.
Sometimes we don’t even like to use the word “pheromone”, which is why we trademarked “Human Musk” and “NeuroInfluence”.
We’re trying to do something new here. To do that, we remain as far away as possible from “the way things used to be” and the “good ol’ boy networks” that repress pheromone technology (and apparently sometimes the users, too).