The beauty of any bulletin board is it offers a place to share knowledge and ideas and sometimes there's actually something you see on here that will help you immensly.
I may be naive but I never really give much thought to people (competitors) who come as guests and take whatever they can get without contributing anything. I actually posted the names of 2 places I wash at on this board early on and a member emailed me with some reasons why he thought I shouldn't have done that. After thinking about it for a few minutes I decided this guy was right and I edited that post and came away with a lesson.
Guests coming onto the BB and taking ideas and maybe hoping to get somebodies account is just a byproduct of the BB and there's not much that can be done about that.
As for being in the same room with 11 Flat Washers lol I wish I would have been there now. I had my very first experience with Flat work friday night and what a mess it turned out to be. To make a long story short, I completely shorted out the electricity of 2 businesses (part of the work was the storefront), had water going EVERYWHERE, had the wrong soap, and a cop tripped over my water hose which I had to run right accross the front of a busy 7-11. I don't know how you guys do it LOL.
Glad you enjoyed the meeting Jon. I want to go to Vegas in October and see the PWNA show.