Welcome to the moderated Silicon Investor message board for Immunomedics. The goal is to have a forum for civil discourse concerning IMMU without flame wars.
Please observe the following courtesies:
> No personal attacks or insults. Period. It'll help if you make it plain when you're joking. If in doubt, please use an emoticon. Here are more than you ever want to know about. en.wikipedia.org.
> We've weathered the first rush of folks whose sole purpose in life seems to be to provoke confrontations. I suggest that if you're a new poster to SI (i.e. created your handle recently), that you take the time to introduce yourself and tread lightly for a while. The history here is that there are folks who literally followed a bunch of people from the Yahoo message board to the iVillage message board and continued vile and disgusting posting patterns. Even to the point of stealing handles (i.e. registering under some "old" handles from Yahoo). So I may be a little hasty with the ban button when I see a new handle that even *looks* like it's just trying to start a fight. Legitimate, reasonably phrased questions/doubts are always welcome.
> I'm not at all interested in squelching opposing viewpoints. I very much value them. Feel free to disagree with someone all you want. Just do it in a civil fashion. And please back up your opinion with a fact or two if possible. Feelings and intuition are important, but facts are more important. That said, if you have a timeline for events that spell trouble for the company, that's perfectly legitimate and welcome.
>Please don't bother with "This is going to the moon by <fill in date here>", unless you can back it up. I have no more interest in baseless, vague gushing than I do in baseless, vague bashing. But see the note about timelines above.
> I'm not interested in reading about hidden motives. First of all, statements like "you must be a paid basher", or "you are just a manipulator" are completely unprovable, so why waste the time?. Second, I have a hard time believing that posts on a forum like this move any stock anywhere. Third, this is a subset of "no personal attacks".
Q: Why not use the existing SI IMMU board?
A: Because of the recent iVillage experience. It took a grand total of a week for the tone of that board to descend to the gutter, and I assume that the same thing will happen on the unmoderated SI board. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I'm also frustrated.
Update: We probably could have used the unmoderated board. It turns that the SI administrators are ready and willing to banish people from SI completely for childish behavoir. I was unprepared for a forum where the Terms of Use are taken seriously and enforced <G>. Of the 6 people I wound up banning so far, the SI admins banished (removed all SI privileges) 5 of them. Plus the SI admins banished several people before I felt the need to ban them. SIAdmin (Dave) and SI Spam Patrol (Cheeky kid) are my friends <G>...
Again, let me emphasize that much of the tone of this introduction is a result of recent experiences on open forums. It may be completely over the top. I ask you to give this forum a chance and see if you like it. It's been running for about a month as I write this (8-Oct-2006) and is becoming everything I'd hoped when I started it.
I'm very much enjoying the discussion so far.
Erick |
