I think most of you will like this post from a
moderator on CMKX proboards:
Someone explain to me why the heck the moderators and admins should spend 1 more minute babysitting so-called "adults"? Explain to me why I should put up with one more complaint, whine, insult, criticism, etc. The hours are crappy and the pay totally sucks.
I am not sure what happened here in the last 24 hours but apparently things got out of control.
The staff here are constantly criticized for over *and* under moderation. I suppose this just depends on your perspective. Who is right? I don't know. But I have tried to find the middle ground. I brought admins and moderators on board that I thought would be balanced and allow free thought and free debate, even if they disagreed. I think I have done a d**n good job considering I have only ever met one of them face to face.
From day 1 all I ever wanted was an environment where we could share information, all of it, everything. I do not want watered down info and I do not want to hear only what I like to hear. Is this how you conduct yourselves in your daily lives? God, I hope not….
If you are truly in search of success then not only should you be interested in what is going right you should also be interested in what is going wrong. The problem is some of you can't take the truth, or don't want to hear the truth. The truth makes us smarter and allows us to make better decisions, today and in the future. If there is one thing I got out of this stock it is an education in investing….big-time….
Over the last little while CMKX seems to be going nowhere fast. Instead of intelligent debate over the information we receive/uncover, we attack each other, we insult each other, we look for weakness in people and exploit them.
Think back over the last year and think about all the people that have been bashed, criticized and insulted for presenting information or intelligent opinions that was not favorable to the company. How many of those people nailed it? Yes we all want our investment to pay off, but we need all the information and all points of view.
This board is close to becoming a failed society, on the verge of chaos. Blame it on the moderators, blame it on CMKX, or blame it on the members. Have you been part of the problem or part of the solution?
I am tired, tired of CMKX, tired of this board, and tired of playing judge and jury. I have been absent, not so much from the information on the board, but absent from moderation. It seems that I need to spend every minute of the day watching over everything that goes on. I am not god. I am a father and husband that has a life outside of this stock and this board. I overcommitted during the early days and now there is a level of expectation that the mods/admins simply can't sustain.
Our community is collapsing under the weight of our own fear. We are scared of losing everything; we are scared of being wrong and scared of looking like fools in front of our friends and family.
Did we make a stupid investment decision? Did we get mislead or even scammed? Maybe, maybe not. Time will tell. But no matter what happens, we should continue to strive to become better investors but more important better people. What is happening with CMKX is testing every part of our being and is bringing the worst out in us.
My fear is not that we will lose all our money, but rather that what we have here is an accurate sub-set of our larger societies. If this is true, then we all have a lot more to worry about than CMKX.