This site is going to the dogs. Some might say that T2W simply wants the advertising revenue with trader education and info sharing way down the list of priorities. Hence the ease with which scammers, like some of the above, can post here and in the process alienate decent traders, such as 10K and Rathcool et al., who may one day decide this site has nothing to offer except decline, and leave it to the trolls and scammers to increasingly prey on genuine newbie traders.
This is a difficult problem to address. The site is a business, and I guess it needs to do whatever it takes to generate traffic. I think the fundemental problem is that those responsble for the site have no actual passion for trading. The business might as well be a porn site, or a dating site, or selling used motors, and quite seriously, the owners really should think about using the resouces they have to do something that they are genuinely interested in, because T2W is in decline, and its inevitably going to get an awful lot worse. There's just a complete lack of passion amongst all concerned, its just paying lip service and going through the motions and it shows.
The whole vendor issue is a complete and utter joke, spammers like the guy above are bad enough, worse still mates of the owner allowed to prey on whoever they wish, theres a complete unawareness within the moderating team of what scams are currently being pulled.
There's also an element of how many times the same information can be discussed, or how many times you want to provide input on the same topic. If the site was discussing celebrity cultue, or politics, or football there'd be a constant stream of new topics as we discused who was shagging or divorcing who etc, but there's only so many times you can discuss stop loss placement.
Its not our problem really, there are good trading sites out there, and they are only a couple of mouse clicks away, in fact I'm off there now