JC, Good morning,
re: The substance of your message was, in my opinion, erroneous. You essentially implied (or, at least, I inferred) that those who wanted this board moderated did so solely because they have some fantastical hatred of Intel.
There are always those that do not want to hear the other side of an argument. And there are those that welcome and encourage contrary information, so that they can accept and moderate, or reject and confirm, their previous opinion. Both sets of people are represented on this thread.
Some people on this thread want to ban other folks that have a contrary opinion, even though their posts don't break the thread rules. Other folks that happen to be AMD investors break the thread rules, and that's OK. The value of the content isn't the issue, there are plenty of AMD investor posters whose content is questionable at best.
And SI has this handy "Ignore" feature. Every poster on the thread can elect not to read any other person's post. But's that's not good enough, the first group want posters banned so that nobody can read the dissenting opinions.
As a publisher, you should be sensitive to this issue. Anyone can choose not to read your material (put you on Ignore), but how would you feel if a percentage of your potential audience was denied the right to read your work (voted you off a portion of the Internet because they disagreed with your opinion)?
When Paul posts that Compaq is prepared to ship Itanium systems, is that worthless? I think it's relevant information from an investor perspective, that might not otherwise get posted on this thread.
People have to make sacrifices to ensure that all opinions are heard (when the Nazi's marched in predominantly Jewish, Skokie, Illinois comes to mind, there were lot's of death camp survivors living in Skokie). That sacrifice might be the inconvenience of the Ignore feature in this case.
The Ignore feature represent personal choice.
Banning a poster for being redundant or because you don't like their posting style represents censorship.
re: densely packed sheet of free top quarks
You have me there. What does that mean?
John |
