Yes, it was that situation last night, where I didn't feel the posts should have been deleted, that resulted in my finding out about the apparently understood "Your board; your rules" thing with non-stock boards. I'm not real keen on "understood" rules, especially when the rules guy doesn't know about them. <g> And I think we're all aware of how I feel about anything smacking of controlling the postive/negative ratio of content about public companies.
We're still hammering out between us how this will apply to areas such as boards for private companies, general market discussion, "trading call" boards, etc.
Someone starts a board about "what do you think of me? good or bad." and their rule is you must state word for word
"You are the best thing in the world." What then is the purpose of the board? It most certainly isn't an open forum.
Having a "purpose" isn't a requirement of starting a board. If someone wants to start such a board, they certainly can. Of course, we both know just how "successful" such a board would be.
Don't crowd me too much on the details of how we'll handle boards that don't fit neatly into the two categories I've already covered. We'll have our answer out shortly (I anticipate by the end of next week) and then we can all work on ironing out the wrinkles.
