SI BOB, I can see your point believe me. I have a very good understanding of the internet and how often we say the same things in different ways and it comes out wrong.
Let me be very clear here. I feel the overall quality of SI has gone down due to nasty people. I'll get attack for saying this but I don't care. This thread could use some changes. Critique, in my mind is to talk about something, review it, with a reason (perhaps to make it better).
This thread could be very valuable to SI and CNBC, it is not. It is a place for name calling but it is not just here and that was my point about GNET and Mark Haines.
I can't put in print the words I had for Mark Haines when he lit into Russell that day of the interview or I'd be bounced from SI in a second. I called Mark names only paratroopers know. I had six figures of my own money in GNET (not OPM) and Mark seemed almost pissed at Russ and I knew the stock was going to take a hit.
Now what do you do about that? You PM Russell and tell him to avoid Mark in the future, you poke fun at Mark, call him "Bark" and then without being nasty, you use Kevin Watson's talents to toast them all funphone.com
Look at the spirit of that link and then think about what is said on this thread. I'm not judging anyone but I am asking some people to lighten up. What a royal pain in the a$$ for SI Bob and the CNBC crew this thread must be at times.
There is a member of a network news crew that I know that is a smart, funny, but most of all a REGULAR GUY. That is the best thing I can ever say about anyone. In other words, money, fame, or life doesn't keep them from being what we would all like to be just simple "good people". I don't think we can have a useful thread with regular guys (and gals) until the name calling ends on this thread. I'm not telling anyone what to say, I'm just saying what I think could help this thread.
I think we should cool the name calling, and Maria has a degree so she is not an airhead. If she puts on a pound or two or her makeup isn't perfect, well, neither are any of us.
We all have bad days and good ones. That goes for people who report news too so be kind people.
SI Bob, I've said it before, you have the toughest job on SI. I agree on the name calling but I was talking about a double standard (eg above link). I wasn't trying to give you a hard time.
There will always be name calling, let's just try to use this thread as more of a place to be friendly and have some fun without hurting others. Let's start with the name calling. And then let's do something.
List three things that CNBC could do to make it more useful for you.
I'll go first:
1) Give Rick Santelli (?sp) some air time to explain the bond markets, how they effect stocks, floor terms, etc.
2) Report each day on the biggest PERCENTAGE stocks gainers, that are not stocks like DELL, MSFT etc., tell us about a THCG before they are ICGE or CMGI.
3) Show at least a minute or two of images from the Hubble each day. I know people at NASA who would be glad for the press. Shouldn't we take a minute from stocks and look at something like this each day?http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/astro/hst_deep_field.jpg
SI Bob, others, have a good weekend. No more name calling on this thread please. Make it better, send three ideas for CNBC programming.
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