Paul and everyone--
Scrapps asked me to post this to Jeff on the Improvers' thread, and to you here.
Janice
> Jeff after being booted off SI on Monday night (either intentionally or by
> technical glitch) I find myself humbled by being reduced to a lurker.
>
> Being a lurker gives me a perspective to which I'd forgotten about. As you
> may or may not know I spend a great amount of time on SI in the USRX thread.
>
> Rehab. has not helped me reduce my posting. :-) So, I have attempted to
> control the content of my posts instead, in doing so I felt the number one
> thing to do was to "contribute to the over all benefit of the thread" by
> providing those things which will be of benefit to all, not just the active
> posters...but also to those who choose to be lurkers.
>
> In doing so I found I became burned out in a hurry, and had just become a free
> service to those who were first to bitch when the discussion drifted off
> topic. This burned my ass at first because the effort which I had put in was
> not truly appreciated, but instead was expected.
>
> In the last couple of days a heated debate cropped up on one of the threads
> about tools which could be made available to all active participates on SI
> that would aid a member in achieving their quest of that which they visit SI
> for.
>
> At first I reacted to this threat to my first amendment right as all true
> patriots would....defensively!! Then when I was sent to the cooler (either
> intentionally or by technical glitch) for a day or more, I had time to think
> about this (I also went to a friend and peaked in on the threads with his
> PC)and here are my thoughts.
>
> This very idea was discussed in detail some time ago on the USR thread, and
> was as I remember an acceptable method to employ. We choose at first to use
> "bs" or "BS" as the first item typed in a post so as to warn those who desired
> only stock related inf. these posts did not have what they desired. "BS" has
> been substituted at times with "on topic" or "off topic" to achieve the same
> objectives.
>
> I propose the following three posting button choices (boy I'll never get back
> on SI)
>
> 1) NEWS - important
> 2) Informational/TA/stock related
> 3) Skip it- unless you ain't got nothin else to do.
>
> This would be of great benefit to me because I am at times mixed in with one
> or more of the following:
>
> *) A lurker.
> *) A lurker in need of inf. without useful content to post.
> *) An active investor bouncing around for my own purpose.
> *) A USR exec. wondering what idea Scrapps has now that we don't have to pay
> for.
> *) The competition getting Scrapps idea to the patent office first.
> *) Employee wondering why these investors don't wake up and smell the coffee.
> *) An investor who just lost the shirt off my back in need of someone to talk
> to.
> *) Person with a mule who prefers to chew out someone else's ass.
> *) A money making fool from the Jack Webb school of investing who just wants
> the FACTS mame.
> *) Doctor Killbutton who doesn't have the brain for time surgery.
> *)___________________________(enter your description
> here)___________________________________ .
> *) And most importantly the morning posting of the days Duads, Navamsa,
> Decante & dead spot time report.
>
> In all honesty I think it will work.
>
> Scrapps |
