actually, one doesn't have to be a merchant forum. Personally, I feel that this is all bogus anyway, as you shouldn't be discussing your strategy with the merchants. Not unless you like having the entire Poser community knowing before you're ready. And kicking out a few proprietors of brokerages isnt going to change anything, either. Their friends are still going to be in that forum and pass on anything they want to know. So, if the real reason was just to piss people off, they succeeded in spades.