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I've noticed over the few years I have lurked and posted here that quite regularly people are 'outed' for being a part of, working for or somehow having a direct interest in the topic being discussed.  

Often such people post the most interesting and comprehensive comments on the subjects being discussed indeed that seems to be the case more often or not. 

Sometimes they declare their interest or position, other times they don't (often it wouldn't matter).  However when they are called out or it comes out that they do work for or have an interest in something that they have discussed the accusations of astroturfing, shilling, marketing etc.. fly and it can be a quite negative.

So, I wondered whether people thought it might make sense, on a totally voluntary basis to have a small 'declarations' box available on peoples user pages where they could put such information.  Essentially a really mini-profile that is always available to anyone and so should make it easier for people to defend claims that they are hiding an affiliation that they aren't.

That's not to say people shouldn't hide who they work for or their affiliations, but rather that the seemingly large number of people who would do make such information available can do in an open way.
<bot>: Does anyone think that being able to declare affiliations/employers/interests on their user page in the interests of transparency and on a voluntary basis might be a good thing?