Well, I feel that it should be either everyone or no one allowed in the Merchants forum...actually from what I have been hearing from some of the merchants here, the forum really isn't necessary at all, why don't you just shut it down? If it really isn't essential to the merchants as has been stated time and time again by some of the people that represent Renderosity, why would you even open up yourself to a continuing controversy? Not to mention the fact that some of the posts usually end up public knowledge anyway, at least from what I've seen on several occasions over at another site, discussing anything that you don't want leaked in that forum is rather useless. And if you make one that is just for exclusive merchants, you will be facing the same thing, information will still leak out...it's a no win situation Tim. If it's not useful and it's going to continue this type of disention among the community, the forum really isn't worth it.