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.
> If you see a post you find obnoxious, please report a TOU violation to the SI admins by clicking the link near the bottom of the post rather than by responding. The SI admins have been doing a great job of removing all traces of posters who violate the SI TOU, and responding only encourages more of the same as well as decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio IMO.
> We're past the phase of he being too heavy-handed with bans. There's history here, and I'll be glad to fill you in if you ask. If you're new, I'd recommend treading lightly, as the SI admins are watching.
> We're not at all interested in squelching any particular viewpoint. We very much value differing viewpoints. 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 important events for the company that you hope for or dread, that's perfectly legitimate and welcome.
> Please don't bother with "This is going to the moon by <fill in date here>". We have no more interest in baseless, vague gushing than we do in baseless, vague bashing. Ditto for "big news just around the corner!!!! BUY NOW!!!!!".
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 that board to be trashed, 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 almost certainly could have used the unmoderated board. It turns that the SI administrators are ready and willing to banish people from SI completely for uncivil behavior. I was not prepared for a forum where the Terms of Use are taken seriously and enforced <G>. SIAdmin (Dave) and SI Spam Patrol (Cheeky kid) are our friends <G>...
You can see the SI Terms Of Use at (http://www.siliconinvestor.com/terms.aspx). It's apparent that the admins interpret this rather broadly, so the usual sophistries people engage in when trying to skate close to the edge get short shrift. My personal summary of the TOU is "play nice, be adult".
Again, let me emphasize that any heavy-handedness in 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.
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