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Technology Stocks : Nokia Corp. (NOK)
NOK 6.835-1.1%Nov 7 9:30 AM EST
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To: niceguy767 who wrote (8377)1/28/2013 8:27:38 AM
From: Eric L5 Recommendations   of 9255
 
Spam Begets a Ban ...

Serial Posting of Multiple Virtually Identical Comments Blatantly Promoting a Stock ...

On Saturday evening you posted what you called an "Interesting (and accurate?) NOK assessment by c24."

You cited no source for the 'NOK assessment by c24' which was actually apparently written by an individual that calls herself or himself 'Samantha28' on The Motley Fool (TMF). Like Silicon Investor, TMF considers the posting of identical posts to more than 2 boards (or in this case to two TMF articles) to be spam. I'm allergic to spam and also to overly zealous stock promotion even if the stock being promoted (or in the vernacular, 'pumped') is one I hold.

When you posted Samantha28's comment to multiple TMF articles here I was in the process of submitting the following 'Fool Alert' to TMF Administration:
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Samantha28 (S28) has been a Fool since January 17 2013. She (or he) has no profile and has made no posts to any TMF board yet. On January 25 she (or he) commented no less than 14 Foolish articles in a 9 hour span. Each of the 900+ word comments promoting Nokia [NOK/NOL1V.HE] was (virtually) identical to each and every other comment. I've held Nokia long off and on since 1994, hold it long at the moment, and have contributed regularly to the Nokia board here on TMF for more than a decade. I do however find this type of serial posting of multiple virtually identical comments to articles written for The Motley Fool blatantly promoting the stock of a company, to be offensive and I think something should be done about it. This is a chronological list of the 14 articles that were written by TMF contributors that were commented in identical fashion by S28 on January 25 and the time of each comments submission by S28 is appended ro each:

1. Is Apple's Pain Nokia's Gain? 11:27
2. Nokia Beats Analyst Estimates on EPS 11:32 AM
3. Which Is the Better Buy, Apple or Nokia? 11:34 AM
4. Nokia's Dividend Demise 11:37 AM
5. This Week's 5 Dumbest Stock Moves 12:26 PM
6. 8 Fascinating Reads 1:26 PM
7. AT&T to Buy Spectrum From Verizon in $1.9 Billion Deal 1:27 PM
8. Here's 1 Smartphone Play That Didn't Crash Yesterday 1:33 PM
9. 5 Things That Apple Should Say Tomorrow 1:43 PM
10. A Safer Way to Invest in High-Potential Social Media Stocks 1:49 PM
11. Yahoo! Acquires Social News Startup Snip.it 2:33 PM
12. Is Nokia the New Apple? 4:02 PM
13. Could British Investors Profit From Apple? 4:14 PM
14. Can Apple Ever Overcome Samsung's Lead? 8:32 PM
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15. Some Hope For This Company?
16. Apple’s Hurt, but This Apple Play is Still on a Roll

Respectfully: InCards (Eric L. on Silicon Investor) ###
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I gave you an opportunity to explain the why and wherefore of importing S28's spam on TMF to this Nokia board at 8:37 PM on the 25th without citing a link to the source and attributing the comment to its apparent originator and to TMF. You failed to do that and instead brushed my request off with what you evidently considered to be a humorous one liner ("??? Eric, I'd tell you what you want to know...but then I'd have to....you!" ). In reponse I repeated my request to you which you ignored but then in another post
you again referenced 'c24' (" the way I see it (and c24) ...") who may or may not be your alter ego, in an additional post to this board.

As a consequence your privilege to post to this board has been suspended for at least 5 weeks. I trust you'll find the original Nokia board to be a suitable posting alternative.

Samantha 28s 16 identical comments to 16 TMF articles including the one you posted here have been removed.

Prosperous Investing (or Trading),

- Eric -
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