fwiw, if I were to pick two EHX pedals that couldn’t be commercially cloned, the Small Stone and Deluxe Memory Man would definitely be on my short list.

fwiw, it’s very unlikely that those could really even be clones — my guess is that they’re just marketing them to you that way (imho, cheesy!). The Small Stone and Deluxe Memory Man use vintage and hard-to-come-by chips — to use a somewhat extreme analogy, a “clone” of a Stradivarius violin simply cannot be a Stradivarius violin.

fwiw, I should be clear about this too: I hope you stay.

But please also understand that we actually spent a lot of time talking about whether this should be a “commerce free zone” — and the decision was (again, subject to change) that we should.

So, commercial posts should be saved for other forums (unless we later enable them here) and I hope you continue to participate here.

I’m not 100% sure what happened in this case, but we only moderate abusive or overly commercial posts. I also leave it to the discretion of our amazingly helpful volunteer admins to decide when a post crosses the line and becomes abusive or commercial enough to warrant moderation (that’s inherently a personal judgment call).

The admins also often discuss particular cases “behind the scenes” before taking action. I do know that they think commercial posts have a disproportionate tendency toward creating trouble, and that’s why the current policy is to keep most commerce out. fwiw, this is also a policy that can be changed, but that is what it happens to be now.

fwiw, this was all noted when you signed up — but I can totally understand if you didn’t pay careful attention to the TOS, or if you simply forgot — but the admins are really doing a amazing job at keeping the conversations here friendly (we all know what happens on other forums!) — and, again, this policy is open to change.

I hope that helps! -Scott