I will try to answer this to the best of my knowlege...There were sellers on the equipment exchange that got the boot because they didn't have a membership or didn't become sponsors. One in particular got the major shaft because he was deemed to be a dealer and not a "cleaning out the closet" seller. He had awesome AK parts from Russia at very decent prices which are highly sought after by us AK junkies.
Here comes the pissing off the members part... He was booted and they allowed other known "dealers" to continue to operate without any bias whatsoever and are still there pimping Tapco products. Most of us, if not all of us, felt that this was, is, bullshit.
The last straw came when the forum Gestapo started locking Ad threads in the equipment exchange section because they were being bumped to the top of the list before the 3 day limit. They were going right down to the hours and minutes on this. You could no longer answer questions by posting replies. You had to answer by instant message, email or edit your original post. Needless to say the mods went way overboard and pushed the good guys too far.
I'm not sure if I missed anything about any other problems but I'd like to point out, at least in my mind, that the major thing that sets this site apart from the "other(s)" is that this is an asshole free forum. Well... maybe not asshole free...just my kind of assholes :wink: