Well, at least my last post was not quickly thumbed-down like my first ever RMIT post yesterday which garnered 8 thumbs down, same topic. Although, my first ever post yesterday was just a simple question on the topic and today’s post actually deals with the topic. So why thumb-down a simple question on the topic and not thumb down the actual dealing with the topic? The answer, IMO, lies in that yesterday “they” made it too obvious and I called “them” out on it. Today, different tactic, no thumbs down just replies to discredit. On both counts, telling, very telling. So who’s “they”, “them”? The following an excerpt from a write-up which appears in an investor/financial blog from a couple of years ago........ALL IMO
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“The boards are carefully moderated to make it look like there is a fair discussion, with people who are both "for buying" and "against buying" but it turns out the moderatorship is sold to big-time investors by Yahoo!'s internet or marketing department. We can tell that YAHOO is selling the moderatorship of their message board as if it were an "online advertising medium" to secret corporate & Hedge Funds who are interested in misleading the average investor. Because of several reasons which I will elaborate in the next paragraph.In the next moments we will learn the way that moderators are creating the illusion of a fair discussion on the YAHOO! Stock message boards.The YAHOO! Message boards were widely considered fair and open. This is because it was assumed that "any #$%$ can post there" and therefore, anyone can have their voice heard. This means that interested parties on both the buy & sell side of a certain stock are, theoretically, being represented. But the truth is that YAHOO reserves the right to sell the moderator ships to interested investors. They did not prevent themselves from selling message board administration rights in their Terms and Services.IT turns out that in the course of my personal experience posting on the message boards, I recorded a video of a time when my message that had a particularly strong buy-side argument was deleted right infront of my eye (and your eyes, if you watch the video)!It shocked me. And it led me to unravel the following statement:YAHOO's message boards, visited by thousands of users who seek counsel in making investment decisions, found to be selling stealth police rights to secret moderators.Thanks for sitting with me. Best Regards, RG”
