"Shouldn't a Mod approve of and post positive about the stock he/she is moderating?"
No, they should enforce the iHub ToU fairly and impartially. Period.
If all the Mods were just company shills then you'd never be able to tell the truth on a MB of one of the many companies that happen to be scams, and handle all the inappropriate deletions and posts that the supporters of the stock invariably commit.
As an example, it was only after I took over as Mod at the SPPH MB after the declared IRP stepped aside in late 2010 that any of the salient facts that revealed SPPH as an obvious scam were able to be posted and remain prominent - previously they were either deleted or buried.
Under the new regime of up to six "equal" Mods, it is now possible to have a balance between those who favor a stock, and those who don't. This tends to stop the more egregious abuses in either direction.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
H. L. Mencken
