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Gold/Mining/Energy : International Precious Metals (IPMCF) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: knight who wrote (32156)	5/12/1998 3:13:00 AM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 35569

knight, Mr. Metals mentioned in some of his posts that he has friends on SI that know how to contact him outside of SI. If Mr. Metals feels that he can contribute to this thread in such a way that other's will value his input, both pro and con, then he can decide if he wants to ask SI if there is any way he can return as Mr. Metals. This may mean he has to up-front agree on conditions and only be allowed on for a probationary period as Mr. Metals. There was a post between Mr. Metals and another that came to the exasperation point where they talked about the possibility of "I'll meet you outside". Now were both, none or only one, really serious about doing this ? Would it not be best to create the conditions to prevent such incidences from occuring simply because the purpose of this IPMCF thread is so people can give and receive information to make a monetary decision on a company's stock. If a person engages people in a way that creates conflicts of a personal nature, and the posts deviate from the purpose of supplying investment information, then people have the right to ask SI to have this person removed simple because they paided SI money for a service, and they feel that SI is not delivering the goods as long as SI allows a person identified as disruptive to remain. You ask if all this could have been handled differently. Mr. Metals was very aware that he had the ability to antagonize people. Mr. Metals was very aware of other people's hostility towards him. Mr. Metals was concious of the escalation of events, and his course of action was to continue until he was kicked of SI. He did not do as he did for the purpose of being kicked off SI. He was unable to discontinue/stop/change how he was interacting with pro-ipmcf threaders. Maby Mr. Metals derives his identity thru these types of interactions with people. Maby just being a regular/nice/polite person is not satisfying enought. It's not only correct and recommended to sometimes "not be nice", but only in self-defence. It seemed that noone was threating Mr. Metals, but he went on the offense, causing people to go on the defence.....eventually the situation became such that at times it looked like Mr. Metals and others were all in attack mode. Mr. Metals, if you return under a new name, and you find yourself in attack mode, withdraw to a calm mode and continue with the facts you are presenting, and you will be received as a valuable contributor to a thread. You may even hear "horror" stories about a past threader name Mr. Metals.