Yes Ken, we are here. I mostly paper trade, but on occasion will make a small trade, that I see as very high odds, using your general guidelines.
As far as the P&D, as you probably noticed, SI has mechanisms to deal with some of it. The landscape of SI is changing, both good and ugly. Recent WSJ Interactive article discusses paid promoters on SI and What SI can and cannot do.
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I believe this thread can take steps to keep itself clean. Let us keep in mind that, as we have seen, posts can be removed, spammers get suspended. Perhaps you, as the founder of thread can have a discussion with Jill, to see what steps can be taken. For example:
1. When a tout spout comes here with a stock, the serious participants inform Jill and ask that the post be removed. Change the header to state that that will happen.
Remember that if the poster is spamming(20 posts/6 hours), they will be removed and suspended without any help from us. Such activity is automatically brought to the attention of SI, but I does not hurt to help it along.
2. See if it is possible to prevent any person who does so, from ever posting on this thread again. I have heard that this is or soon will be possible, but have no first hand knowledge of such. As the owner of this thread, It would be your right to dis-allow anyones posting privilege, for what ever reason.
It might also be worth-while to share the information (of the spammer) with irby, Steve Goldman and other trading technique threads and have them do the same, if they so desire. In the recent incident the same ____ ______, posted the same message on 3 of the 4 trading threads that I read. I will post this message to those folks as well.
3. The first person who finds such a post should simply inform Jill and the thread owner, via PM. Lets have the post removed without a publicly stated word.
Until such a system is implemented (assuming you agree and it is possible), the first person to find the post, should tell the person to take it elsewere. Lets not all jump on the bandwagon and flame the person, just creates too many posts that are not needed. I know we like to support each other and recently Darren supported me when I did so and it is appreciated. I would say though that the spamming persons, shall we say im-polite response, I find gratifying, as it is a measure of how effective I was.
Interested in yours and others thoughts.
Harry |
