Horological Meandering

PPro Announcement: Standards

Dear friends,

PuristS hold themselves to the highest standards of integrity. However there are individuals that use the influence of our forums to manipulate events to their own advantage and this is unacceptable.

Please try to resolve your service and quality issues prior to posting complaints. The moderator team is available offline to assist. It is PuristS responsibility to fairly present all sides of every situation.

People sometimes use the promise of a glowing watch review to gain access to products, discounts or gifts from watch companies and watchmakers. Your moderators agree to never accept gifts or ‘special favors’, beyond what the brands provide to general customers and members of the press and we expect our members to maintain the same standards. Please take this into consideration in all your dealings with companies or watchmakers so that we never compromise the integrity of PuristS.

In this 12th year of the forums' existence, we want to applaud the wonderful contributions by all our members. The incidents we describe are rare, but we don’t want to see this manipulation occurring on PuristS.

Regards,

The PuristSPro Team

PuristS: Pursuing Perfection in an Imperfect World

This message has been edited by AndrewD on 2013-06-04 04:57:31

Totally agree and totally noted. Thank you Andrew.

By: Sandgroper : May 28th, 2013-03:54

Cheers, Francois

A fine statement, to which I completely agree!

By: amerix : May 28th, 2013-11:39

But how can it be implemented? I think warnings followed by a ban for non-compliance with Our Principles would be the way to go, using contact by PM or other means. Of course I am curious as well as concerned about the clever tricks that these individuals...

Thank you, Andrew, well put.

By: ThomasM : May 28th, 2013-15:42

I know I'm frequently called impractically idealistic, sometimes worse... :-) but I continue to believe the deciding factor in gray areas lie in the intentions, purely and a priori. There IS a difference between writing something sincere, and then receivi...

Hi Thomas....

By: moc : May 28th, 2013-23:40

I hope you are well..... I second your last thought...its hard to reach perfection but we can at least try..... Mo

Please don't forget.... this is in addition to the existing "Rules of Conduct"...

By: KIH : May 28th, 2013-20:57

... including, but not limited to, "Respect" and "Courtesy". Just want to make sure every member enjoys the healthy discussion and experience here. Ken

We are a lot of people here..

By: moc : May 28th, 2013-23:43

and the flesh is weak.......as long as its kept to a decent level.... You mods are doing a super fine job,the only thing I d say......be present and a bit harder if necessary....I can provide the muscle :):) Mo

Hear, hear!

By: mkvc : May 29th, 2013-00:53

1. This is a very clean site and we all benefit from that. 2. This is by and large not an "evaluative" site. If you want to tell the world someone is bad (or good) there are other places to do it where your views will reach people seeking exactly that typ...

All I can say is...

By: Ares501 - Mr Green : May 29th, 2013-02:41

;) :) I know that it's impossible but denunciation sometimes work :) Best D ...

You look good in that costume mate :)

By: Hororgasm : May 30th, 2013-14:09

Best, Horo

ROFL! [nt]

By: Ares501 - Mr Green : May 31st, 2013-02:04

Great reminder... [nt]

By: big daddy : May 29th, 2013-22:31

i totally agree and hope i never write anything that i dont believe to be correct

By: G99 : May 30th, 2013-02:33

or my own opinion of course. luckily, being a vintage guy, i dont think any brand will be offering me incitements to write a good review. without the unbiased reviews, politeness and friendship of the members i wouldnt be here so i'm glad these reminders ...

Very well articulated.

By: chintu : May 31st, 2013-05:14

Fully agree with the spirit behind themessage and absolutely perfect. If I may suggest, wherever the forum post commences with a serious complaint thread by a member, it might be a good practice for the moderator to ask the member to provide the documenta...

It seems to me that this is one of, if not THE...

By: Baron - Mr Red : May 31st, 2013-06:46

......philosophy that distinguished this Forum from others.

Great thoughts there, AndrewIs it possible to make any financial interests known- like at

By: watch-guy.com : May 31st, 2013-13:53

a medical conference. If the writer is paid by a company or has been sponsored then this should be stated. Also - IMHO- so should the writer discliam if they are a dealer. Julian