Members of Pre-Bob iHub Weigh In

[Was (Bob)]

Attention

We have reason to believe that Bob has deleted our board from the "New Threads" list on the front page. If this is not a
technical error, he may be trying to silence us. We must let him know what we think.

Thanks
joe

Joe,

Two things:

1. Right-click the link above that says "Home", then select "Open in New Window". Got it open? Now, look in the "New Threads list" on the homepage. Read what it says. On my system it says "New Stock Boards". That was recently changed to include only STOCK boards. As in boards that are relevant on a STOCK discussion site. Might want to tell the other person(s) in your "We" to do the same. Your pennance is to all of you to get on the phone in a conference call and chant "There is no conspiracy" 20 times. <g>

2. As you may or may not know, I posted earlier today that I was going to change the rules so that if someone wants to run a board that isn't about the market at all (a "personal" board), they can impose any kind of rules they want. Actually, I thought I was planning to change the sites rules to that, but found out that it'd already been much that way.

Although I have to admit I get varying versions of it. For example, I've had people tell me that the rules were always that they could delete anything they want on any thread, stock or otherwise, to which I've already replied "On stock boards? Not on my watch!" It was Matt (I prefer to get my facts from the horse's mouth when possible) who confirmed for me that it's been this way for "personal" boards, which cannot stock boards.

Well, someone whose opinion I always respect and sometimes agree with wrote to me tonight to basically tell me that I'm nuts and shouldn't have a hands-off policy in ANY category as there would eventually be people who would take advantage of that in a very bad way. He told me that someone will figure out that they can start a personal thread, talk about stocks in it, and delete any posts that disagreed with them.

I told him he was nuts. Nobody's going to do that. And I also told him that I'm willing to give it a try and see if it gets abused or if someone eventually proves to me that the idea itself is not workable.

Congrats, Joe! I figured I'd be waiting months.

Now, in case anyone's seeing this post because I'm on their peoplemarks, can someone defend the "Do whatever you want." idea being applied to any category of threads in light of this thread?

This thread makes no bones about it. Only people who dislike me are welcome. Only negative commentary will be allowed. Only "real" iHub members welcome (whatever the heck that means).

Input anyone?

And, Joe? Don't even think about deleting this post or any replies to it. I may have a lot of smileys and grins and laughs in my posts, but this has never been a "game" to me, and you just caught my attention in a major way.