Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
Members of COTI who are also employees of firms selling products to COTI members should be clearly identified as such. With that information in hand, other members can then decide whether any given post is a personal opinion or a company policy.
You have a subtitle with your User Name, The Adminator, mods and moot members have subtitles with their User Names, and employees of companies can easily identified with subtitles too.
That's exactly what I've been considering, although putting it in your .sig is probably enough.
It's not just for avoiding shills (which are rare), it's useful information.