Hrmm... you know, I've been wandering through the storms of controversy surrounding this at all three sites and in all the various forums that it's being discussed in. I've been reading everthing posted, and sometimes reading between the lines... and doing a lot of thinking while reading. [I know, bad habit and yes that was smoke you smelled. :)] Here's an observation... As a writer, I cannot believe that another writer would make some of the statements made unthinkingly. Writers pick their words and phrasings carefully, and shape them to evoke just the reactions that they want to evoke in their readers. A question I have is: Are these just the very reactions that were meant to be invoked in us? Here's a hypothetical for the conspiracy buff in all of us: Wouldn't it be absolutely fascinating if someone deliberately raised a huge flap over this subject... got all sorts of people stirred up, and discussions about quality and independant quality reviewing going... And then along the way, someone - pick anyone - were to abdicate their previous position in the community and lo and behold, a few weeks or a few months later popped up as the head of a supposedly independant product review board? Purely hypothetical, of course - but when something like this pops up, I like to play around with what ifs and whys... But then again, I'm paranoid... and I learned a long time ago deer hunting in the ozarks that where there's rattles there's generally snakes. Illusions... I'm not saying that your proposal isn't a good idea. But let's be very careful here... It's important that all of the brokerage sites do their own independant in-house quality control and testing, in addition to any outside quality control. If there is an independant review board, it should be independant - not affiliated in any way with ANY of the online brokers. And it should not be chaired by, owned by, operated by, or staffed by ANY member who is afilliated with the ownership of a brokerage firm. Not Admin, not moderator, executive or otherwise... current or former. If it is... then it's independance, impartiality and integrity are questionable at best. None existant at worst. I'm not saying that any of this speculation is anything but that - pure speculation on my part. But like I said... lets be very careful and keep our eyes open, all of us.

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