Here's how it's been for the last couple of years there:
If an advertiser sells a product that competes with TTS, the adminstrators attack and allow attacks against those advertisers. It's not just Cole doing the attacking. Mike L, Guy Tripp, Tony, Me, Kennedy, Eric, and others, were routinely slandered on the board with the full cooperation and often active participation of Nick D'amico.
Now that it's a for-profit board, is it truly in the best interests of the owners to have someone on staff who works directly against the majority of the vendors there? Unless the new owners are truly idiots (I doubt that), it must be that they don't know what's going on.