Actually Scott your analogy is wrong. This is like owning a chain store in the mall and not being invited to tenets meetings because your store is located in other malls that you happen to have an interest in. Even if you happen to own stock in those other malls you still have a vested interest in makeing this mall work. If the owners here are worried about secret stuff getting out they should have opened another forum. The merchants forum was a place for merchants to get together to discuss things of interest, help each other out, etc.