Ethical Consumer

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In order to post and reply you'll need to register your account here. (at present, you'll have to re-enter any logins you may already use for the Ethiscore website, by mid 2010 we hope to have integrated all this).

 

One of our key beliefs is that our readers have a lot of detailed knowledge to contribute to the research and evaluation of ethical products - our core activity.

 

In the past this has often happened after publication - on our letters pages or comments areas. We hope, that by getting our forums right, our community will now be able to help to improve the quality of the published research before it hits the streets.

The Nappies Research Forum is the research report which we are choosing to trial this approach with. It will be our only live forum for the first month or so while we iron out technical issues, get used to resourcing the moderation of comments, and start telling people - gradually at first - about what we are up to.

 

In time, we hope to build a vibrant and lively forums area with multiple subjects and topics running simultaneously.

In addition to research forums, we are aware that a whole range of other forums may be useful for readers and ourselves. Other ideas for forums at this stage include a boycotts forum, an oil sands campagin forum, a general notes and queries forum, and a forum for new academic publications.

Do please post replies to this forum if you are having technical problems or wish to comment generally on these plans.

I notice that when posting a comment, the poster's full name appears in the margin, so the comments are attributable. Whilst I have no particular objection to this, I wonder if you should warn people about the risk of defamation or perhaps change it so that people's tag names are useable? Having just seen Food Inc it would not surprise me if the cosmetics industry were as litigious as the food industry - might be prudent to offer your contributors some protection?

Organico aka Belinda Thomas

I have just noticed this too. I had assumed, having been asked for a user name, that it would be the user name and not my full name which appeared on the forum. That is the natural assumption to make and if this is not so then (a) it rather negates the point of registering a user name and (b) I think you definitely should make this clear to people before they submit their registration.

Hi Belinda, Alison.

 

Sorry about this, and thanks for bringing it to our notice.

 

Posts were set to only show Display Names, and that's what happens when logged in as an Admin. We've taken another look, so have the developers who installed the forums, and this looks very much like a bug in the software.

 

We've contacted the creators and posted on their user forums, and are waiting for a response.

 

We'll keep you updated.

 

regards

 

Michael

I noticed that too, so registered a second account which does not include my full name and will use this in future.