It's not so much whether they are legit or not, it's more to do with the image of the forum.
Honda, Mugen, motoring magazines and many other companies come on these boards and lurk, we regularly get emails from all sorts of people, the traffic on this forum massive and we have a big fooprint in the Honda community.
We have to air a (small) side of professionalism to the place, the private lounge was created to keep the NSFW away from general chat however it only takes 30 seconds to gain access and I think the level of threads in there is just right, but the candid one was a step too far and I felt a little uncomfortable with it.