With the latest update to the rules, the promotion of paid, community-relevant content has been codified. FOSTA/SESTA concerns have been addressed by excluding particular services.

With this in mind - I believe that people making promotional newsfeed entries (photos, posts) should be given a checkbox during the submission process that allows them to indicate the new content being submitted is paid content promotion.

Eg. "[x] Paid content promotion"

This would then include a standard icon of sorts at the beginning of their post - perhaps "Ad" or "Promo" in reversed colours and maybe a means of either including or excluding those posts in one's feed through the "My type" filter.

For people who a person is following, they've clearly expressed an interest in that person's posts, and just like "My type" filter in general, those people would still appear in "My Newsfeed", but not in the Global or Local feeds of someone who had excluded promotional posts.

Thank you for your interventions. I'm convinced that you have identified the people with strong views by now.

Although it might go against Feabie's philosophy, I have suggestion that may reveal helpful.

Why not create a sort of feedism spectrum, a kind of compass to guide people when they join, a kind of 10 questions questionnaire that would give them their rank on a feedism scale, going from 1 to 10. That way, people could embrace the fact that we are not all at the same place on the evolutionary feedism scale. That way, people could screen members and interact with 10's only if they want. When viewing a member's page, the scale would be clearly shown. This scale could be enhanced along the way a bit like the credit ratings agencies do: AAA with negative perspective, etc. http://multiple-markets.com/3ratingschart.htm

Anyways, it might be work, but it might enhance our feedism experience very much. It would be new and interesting. A quest to know yourself better.

Otherwise, I fear that we'll be go on endlessly between far right views and far left views of the world.

Thanks you for your time.