Hello DISCHINO.

Thank you for your message. To begin, with regards to Copper Fox Metals, we have had serious problems with some new members coming in to the board. Looking at these now banned accounts activity, we felt we'd all be best served if these accounts would be terminated.

There is a typical standard deviation so to speak, when a new member joins a community. We looked at these accounts and in our view and experience, their participation was to put it bluntly bogus. So we stepped in and somewhat corrected that.

You bring up a good point about limited member ratings. This is something we have to discuss with our web developers but if such a feature is possible we will definitely consider limiting mail room members from giving ratings; either no ratings at all, or a maximum of 10 ratings until they graduate to the next level.

Thank you again for your message and for your suggestions. We would like to wish you all a happy and prosperous 2013.

Kind Regards,

AGORACOM