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But the point is, if people are allowed to ask about coaches, the entire community will regulate that part of it because everyone drives to put down others achievements when it comes to poker.

But if you can just pay $25/month to be able to call yourself a 2+2 approved coach this is obviously leading to a situation where people wont check out coaches because they assume the site will have done so (and could potentially lead to a liability on 2+2's part).

Currently we have a situation where people can play on reputation but no one can find out exactly how good they are either as a player or coach. Id be a pretty bad one imo, but ive 4k+ posts and im relatively well known round here - it wouldnt be hard to play that off with some fake PT stats.

As it happens, the exact opposite of what you said is likely true - and ultimately the best system from a user perspective were to allow people to openly market themselves based on their abilities and not that they paid 2+2 a fee - like any free market the best will succeed and the worst will drop by the wayside.

Basically, if that guy had posted stats that showed he had a good run, he would be utterly crushed by the mods/users.

Maybe the ideal solution is a Coaching Forum, like the Rakeback/Affiliate Forum where paying a fee isnt required, i dunno - but simply banning all discussion of coaches and training sites WONT make them disappear but it will drive them off the radar, thus removing natual safeguards.