LindyBill, People like Toy can ruin a thread. So far this week he has posted 17 times on the msft thread. There have been a total of 75 postings, so Toy accounts for 22.7% of the volume, but since his posts are provocative, he will probably get about 1 response per post, which means he is actually eating up about 45% of the thread's bandwidth. Some of his ideas have merit, but since his postings are repetitive (the sky is falling, falling, falling...), the volume of them makes it inconvenient to find news and unbiased analysis, driving serious investors away.
The only way to deal with this fillibuster is to not respond to his posts, or if you must do so, use private messaging. We are encountering the same problem on the csco thread with a joker named Jach, and are trying to ignore him. Guys like Toy thrive on flame wars, so if he doesn't get that stimulus, he might just go away.
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