CobaltBlue,
I don't use the alphabetic approach. What I do is I go to a thread that I'm following, and start reading from the first post. For each poster that I find, I click on their name, and see if they're abandoned or not. I think that this works best on the older threads, and on threads where there has been a big pump and dump or some other type of scam. I have never tested this hypothesis out by doing any kind of survey of course, so this is my gut feel.
There are several reasons why the scam stocks have lots of abandoned posters. First of all, on a couple of the threads some suckers were lured into leaving SI, and went to Raving Bull. Then we have the exposed scammers who either get kicked off SI, or use a new ID when posting. Sometimes an ID is created purely for specific purpose, such as posting misleading information, or for smearing someone. There's lots of good digging on these threads.
Regards,
John Sladek |
