Gail, you've been here quite some time. Everybody knows who bothered to read your posts, knows about your style and love of Ihub. Unfortunately, Ihub has almost always worked with both sides of the stock story. Positive and negative. You have many positive contributions to the stock board community, and I enjoy your other side, the music and cooking, and family life.
That said, the free stock boards are not like family, they're advertising stock basically, don't always operate fairly by nature and are a constant dynamic for balance.
The ratio of people who use their real names versus alias is probably pretty small, and using aliases seems imo to give users the perception that they are protected and can say and do more than they would using real names. This also causes conflicts and friction and a zillion other facets.
To expect equality or fairness in treatment on a free board is unrealistic. And I also believe the the percentage is quite small that any deletions are purely personal.
Perhaps you could try just posting strict stock info on free boards without too much personal banter and use premium boards for the personal stuff. It's a pain I know, but you're fighting a huge uphill battle trying to make a free board with diverse people to bend to your personal will. Premium boards are not usually monitored by admin or mod squad as they have pointed out.
One last thing, when one can replace bashers in your sentence with pumpers and it describes the exact same effect, then that pretty much concludes that the balance is fundamentally the same for both sides and will not be resolved to your satisfaction because it is functioning well in this fashion.
