parker,
You might remember me, I gave you a hard time a number of weeks ago when you staged an attack on traders who teach instead of trade. In the weeks since your thread, I have come to another conclusion. You had the right idea but did not present it well. The new ones that cropped up this last week are supremely annoying. Why don't you start another thread about the spaming and question the ultimate goal of the said thread/s? Is it to educate FOR FREE or to solicit to a pay site the sole direction of the thread.
a) How does a trader who has no credentials in the field, no publications even and has not put in a 'track record' gratis ask for money and claim equal status with those that have been around and taught, wrote educational treatises, held seminars, honorary roundtable forums in trading expos, etc? What is the benchmark of experience measured against? Compared to whom? Compared to SI traders? or compared with educators of repute?
b) Don't restrict these moderators from posting completely but limit them to a discreet link on a profile or using a stock pick they might have discovered that may profit the ENTIRE thread and not an 'after the factor' declaration.
c) Silicon Investor SHOULD be used as it was intended a FREE forum for exchanging stock related data and not a pedestal for self-congratulatory effusion and gushing self-directed accolades.
d) Threaders should not be permitted to open new threads at whim for the obvious intention of being catapulted to the top of a list for the sole objective of advertising a commercial service.
e) I have often set up loans for entrepreneurial endeavors so they could engage advertisers, publicists, backers but not to take advantage of the 'public' for solicitation to profit.
f) Having a public forum used solely to promote commercial endeavors is an invasion of privacy. This would be compared with unsolicited e-mail or spam mail, or banners 'blinking' on websites which was an intrusion on our enjoyment. We come to SI to learn, to post, to enjoy sharing stock talk. We open a magazine and we are PREPARED to see advertisements but not where we have paid our dues for a FREE FORUM FOR DISCOURSE. There should be contraints or SI against opening a number of threads, and/or posting solely on the vested interest of solicting to join a pay services of questionable repute. |
