There's private and then there's "Super Secret Squirrel" private. Keeping things quiet until you publish or otherwise disseminate for best accuracy is well and good, to be applauded even, but I've known quite a few folk who have taken their wealth of knowledge to the grave w/ them, because they did not want others to have a leg up on 'em.

Myself, I don't have any expectations of making a living from all this, or even breaking even, so I don't mind sharing info. I do know when to keep my yap shut if it will hurt someone else's efforts, I hope!

Just wondering if it wouldn't be best for folk to at least let it be known that they ARE doing research, though...Might help things along.