What would you do?

[Tobus]

Chewing on all this methinks its risky for X Marks, either as a forum or as the owner, to attempt to somehow regulate all the kilt related industries worldwide. One of the joys of this forum has always been sharing the best vendors and warning of the dishonest vendors. It ain't broke. I don't see the need to change from an open forum.

I don't see that Steve is trying to (or could if he wanted to) regulate all the kilt related industries worldwide. Unethical behaviour is going to happen one way or the other. But Steve, as the owner of this forum, is in the unique position of deciding whether it will happen here, with his blessing, or not. If we choose to keep unethical businesses off of XMTS, they are still free to operate unethically on the web (or in person) for as long as they can get away with it. But Steve won't have the stink of it on this board, or associated with his name.