For what it's worth, I don't go looking for these little controversies. I wake up in the morning, pour a coffee and sit down to find out what's happening at the site. Lately, it's been a lot of drama which I'm really not interested in being the host of.
People come here looking for GOOD information and that's what I try to deliver. People make decisions based on what they read here and I have a responsibility to make sure that what is in these forums is worthwhile and honest. I try to balance that with the need for vendors to have a place to showcase their products and services. It's the advertisers that pay for the site and I try to only do business with the ones I, and others, have found to be very reputable. The advertisers benefit from this as it is almost an endorsement of their business in that they are here as advertisers but I can't continue to say this about the site if non-dealers are using the site as their personal dumping ground. I suppose non-dealers can use the classifieds area to sell things but even then there's a risk that a member of our community will buy something that won't have the level of support they've come to expect from the shops that advertise here.
It's a tough balance to strike and I prefer to err on the side of our membership.
Bart