I think a lot of the support for ON3P skis comes from their history. Both Scott, and Rowen, and everyone else who was instrumental in starting ON3P was a contributing memeber on this website (shit, Scott and Rowen were both mods!) long before they started ON3P. ON3P really is a brand that grew out of NS, if you take a lookat the dates iggyskier, rowen, wrenegade, Caylor, Twoods, all joined, it is pretty easy to see the history they have with ns. Combine that history with the discussions Scott and Rowen have with NS members every day, and the connection ns members have with ON3P. After all ON3P really is just the result of a bunch of ns members deciding they wanted to build their own skis.
(the above could be repeated just substituting maggots for ns members)
ON3P really is a skier's company.
It doesn't hurt that the skis kick ass and they have stand up customer service!