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Pastimes : SI THREAD INVADERS - For What Purpose? Are They Paid? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (7)	4/8/2000 11:37:00 PM
From: Joana Tides	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12

You have a point there, Blue - didn't fall over in shock but sitting here shaking my head 'NO' sighing mmmmmmh mmmmmmmmh MMMMMMH. Searching for answers to a question, realized the findings may not be to one's liking. Sad to say, what you say makes sense. Yep, the bigger something gets, the more likely it'll be meddled with. Anyone seen the inside workings of a corporation knows how meddling often begins to happen while a simultaneous appearance of spinning out of control is being given - like a shakeout on the stockmarket pattern. Right now all around the Internet, more sites are looking "internetwork-ready" these days. Duplicated content (syndicated) has been popping up more, and even in some hertefore obscure .com places. What a kwinkydink how much is opinionated towards the side of spreading the market terrors lately, too! They must be getting paid to write what they're told in a professional and conformist style. (Or maybe it's some computer program jabbers 'em out LOL). Huh, maybe the sites get paid to put the junk on there too. A dumbdown of repetitive blurbs would be so boring. Especially since SI members are spoiled by the unique wonderful freewheeling stuff as written on here. We've seen some mindblowing original personality-style writings ! Writings to shake your mind loose enough to view trading and stockpicking in a different way - writings to make you ask yourself whose side yourself and others are playing for - writings about inherently dull financial matters that get you so cracking up at the invented words and concepts you keep bursting out laughing thinking of it later - Writings to make you realize you finally grok some math & stockstuff formerly so difficult to grasp til seeing it written like rock 'n roll - writings to let you walk a mile in someone else's shoes - the very best! If such expressive beauty gets hassled away from SI in the name of progress, growth, and conformity ... There Goes It's Very Soul. So many "ask an expert" sites proliferating all over the Internet like toadstools after a rain lately. Go2net bought into one - it's askme.com (formerly XpertSite) - along with an agreement to use it. $10 Million Dollars is alot of money for a site that gives away peanuts prize chances to self-styled experts who sign up to answer questions online from the general public. Of what use are these, when already there are public forums on every subject under the sun so easily found through a search engine? It's the Control Factor behind it, the monitoring and the contest points and the pay, is what gives me the creeps about any and all of those managed advice sites. At some of these expert sites they charge directly thru the phone bill or credit card - yeah, uh-oh is right - saw one doofus wanted $35 A Minute for tech stock picks. Mournful of any trending to the freewheelling beauty of The Internet being Managed and Directed and Cloned. If the unpleasant thread invaders running amok is a harbinger of what's planned to happen on SI - what an ugly way of clearing the boards of the folks who made it happen. So those who stay would get a lower quality of new member writings with some syndicated blab free with NDB on a TV Stock Shopping Channel .... Brrrr ... hoping that isn't it. Even though it'd probably be good for the stock and I hold some, no thanks - even with a Win/Win either way. Hope they're better Internet Pioneers, than that. Please Mister, Say It Ain't So. JOANA