When i speak about open or not open. what i meant was, this forum was originally a general hair loss forum. It wasn't specifically a toplace forum. Now it is. That doesnt mean you cant say anything. Its just that direct questions of what company is better toplace or joesrugs is not gonna be favorable here. Its just basically a common sense thing man. If you owned a company and paid for and provided a forum for your customers. Would you want your competitors promoted on YOUR forum? Now if they said ohhhh.. this is a completely open forum, and then started locking threads, then id be bitching myself. Which i used to do in the past, during this forums "transitional" phase. But they made it clear, its kind of a common sense understandable position. And I give toplace a lot of credit for having their forum open for so long. They used to let their competitors come on here all the time, but things got out of hand, so i dont blame them.

I agree, with the people above, It feels like something died on this new forum. And its not just the format thats different. All the names I used to remember on here, seems like a lot of people disappeared.