I think a lot is just the overall attitude of folks....
over at ECF, the unregistered vendor would slip in unnoticed as the mods are too busy on their power trip...and would gather enough gullible souls that will buy into the marketing hype, and start their own cult around the vendor.
Another forum I'm on,,the staff would catch the vendor, advise them to become a registered supplier--and if they didn't and the spamming continued, they would get cut off at the knees.
This place, has enough folks who have gotten fed up with the ECF boot-lickers and das fuhrers running the show that folks see right through the bullshit of wild marketing claims that never deliver, and are quite skeptical of any claim.
So I believe the questions are a mix of wanting to fetter out the truth or at least have a little fun while calling out the bullshit.