It's not my PM, to which I'm sure, you will admit. Do you have a post or PM of mine where you claim that I brutally attacked you? Have you ever responded favorably to similar attacks or posters whose style is to post is such fashion, merely because you agreed with the attacking poster? Perhaps it's time to take a more objective view?
Otherwise, I can't really comment without knowing all the facts, but, in general, having been the target of coward lying personal attacks and impotent threats, I'm primarily disappointed because I always felt that these boards would provide a method by which regular shareholders could level the playing field against corporate managements, MM's, hedge funds, and others who try to take our money over the years.
Instead, they have generated into "ego" trips that discourage honest and open discussion.
If someone posts bullishly, he is often claimed to be "pumping," while someone who exposes a scam is labelled a "basher." Those accused then make the matter worse by posting the same stuff over and over, to the point that it becomes useless "spam." Then the bulls feel they have to respond with 100's of posts saying nothing other than the stock is going up tomorrow or sooner. The negative posters feel they have to spam with posts laughing at others who may be losing money and claiming generically that it is a "scam, going bankrupt, worthless," etc. Some post bullisly about stocks that are just as risky as their own target bashes. Others change aliasses and post as bulls, changing their strategies with their positions.
We've seen the history of the Elgindy posters, going from board to board with personal attacks on investors who merely opined positively, and who have recently been exposed. Hedge funds have been exposed as providing misinformation fodder to feed their own scams. Defending these scams, while deriding penny scams, does not make someone a sleuth.
I've never been paid to post, would vote to prohibit paid promotion and dumping of shares, but also find the hypocrisy of those who post spam negatively over and over similarly abhorrent. It typically accomplishes nothing other than feeding the egos of some very self-admittedly troubled individuals. Typically posters don't realize that it is quality of posting, as opposed to quantity, that makes a difference. Taking out personal frustrations, by hiding behind a keyboard and lying about others, even if repeated over and over, does not create a truth, other than in the mind of the psychotic.
Perhaps all of us can use the holy season to look inside and perhaps promise ourselves to post more usefully and less personally.
Take care. |
