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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (27786)	7/5/2011 8:29:55 PM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 32968

Perhaps if SI Brad could reply to expanded versions of your statement to him for him to contemplate on: "to decide what you are getting out of having the SI ball again." #msg-27473286 From: Jorj X Mckie To: SI Brad (admin) -start- Does it bother you if there are many messages on some threads that don't contribute to the overall intelligence of the site? -stop- IH wants all posts on boards for investing in a specific company to be fully about the company, and even if that information is there they want no content of a community of people in a social environment. IH wants the investing boards to read as if each post was copied & pasted from the Wall Street Journal, a technical web site of data, press releases, etc. This as if those external places IH people visit for technical information will use the posts on IH as content they will copy and paste for their own web site content. While IH does remove frivolous posts, they also remove posts that appear to the Spam Patrol as off-topic because the words in the post do not explicitly mention the company, but are very useful for the board to function. This leads to discontent of the poster, and a feeling that their knowledge is not welcomed on IH. As many mentioned here, its the Moderator's job to keep the board running in a manner that Brad will decide by trial & error over the next months. As for those posts that add no company information, or simply duplicate was was posted or well knowned, its been expressed here that the poster just wants to hear him/herself talk and have an audience, and these folks may be the most PeopleMark'ed for valuable information, but post in excess. If Brad initially kept the Spam Patrol only on a read and collect and report to him how each board is doing a information presentation to readers, then that can be the trial & error phase to determine what fits best for his vision. Most important is to have totally frivolous posts removed immediately, not ten minutes or hours later on a very busy board during market hours when most everyone is reading in near read-time. This requires having up to a dozen trusted Assistants on a bust board so that at least one is always reading posts as they are added to the board. This requires Assistant tools, or better would be access to read the posts in Next 100 mode that has an icon on each post that they can click to have its removal happen then and there. These Assistants have to be from the board's active readers and posters that can balence the information and community feel-good flow of posts. Assistants only have post removal powers, while the Moderator has full plus extra abilities to ban an out-of-control poster for a day(s) or week, or allow that out-of-control poster to continue posting but in a limited manner as in number of posts per day for a time period. Over time it may become apparent that most trouble makers and not-whom Brad wants here spend most of their time here: Politics/Government 92 (I would add Religion) siliconinvestor.com Doug

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (27786)	7/10/2011 3:48:05 PM
From: KLP	5 Recommendations Respond to of 32968

Very much agree with you Jorj~ Part of what makes SI such a wonderful community, both in 2D and 3D, is the opportunity to search out information to post that may be valuable to some, or to sometimes, just veg and take in or reject what others have noted during their day. Doing that makes our brains work better...we actually have the opportunity to "imagine" the pros or cons of various issues. Sometimes someone will say something, that some of us will pick up and carry forward with some new information. This true with political, financial, or other types of threads. The thought of "rationing" or counting a person's posts seems demeaning, both to the "countee and the counter" so to speak. Skip over or ignore seems like the best answer if someone is really "bent" on either minding someone else's business, or on narcissism.