I agree with you Syn, and I am not necessarily trying to say that this practice must be abolished however I wanted to provide a relatively outside opinion to the situation. Whether it is common business practice or not should not determine our participation. Just like if everybody else was jumping off a bridge, I would ask that we take into consideration our own opinion on the subject and make a decision from there. If the community at large is fine or even in favor of this continuing then great but if not, we may have an opportunity to be even better and more unique than any other site out there.

I agree that PO is second to none, so why are we doing what everybody else does? Can't we be better than that?

@walter: I understand your frustration but you should be taking that up with the admin. In my opinion, sharing the password to "get back at them" is like stealing bread because you think the grocery store over charged you for your last load of groceries.