I didn't read all three or four page of this thread but Jim's concerns seem reasonable to me. I've seen advertised guns get the full forum member's value assessment in public attached onto the seller's advertisement, and some "contributors" were somewhat respected in the sxs field if not specifically in the field of the gun being sold. Completely inappropriate IMO. An advertiser should not be "critiqued" in a 'continuation' of his own thread. 'Jus seems wrong.