Originally Posted by
La'akea Sanborn
no you're right, it's blue, but I was saying something like a t shirt from a consumer standpoint doesn't always designate rank, so if you buy a gray 10p tshirt, are you rep'n a grey belt? However in cases where the affiliation is stating that it is a ranked item, if there is a sense of central control on it's distribution, than it's harder for frauds to violate it's representation. OTM, Budo videos, and amazon are examples of how this can happen easily, but if we as an affiliation designate an item as an official 10p ranked item then the distributor of "10p" items within our moons and hotboxes can carryout the executive decisions of who it can be distributed to properly. Ya know...
Believe me, I understand the thought behind earning your belt, I'm just offering a suggestion as to how we as an affiliation can implement a protocol of sorts.