Amit, you asked me for my advice, so I'm going to give it you. You can create the next generation of Ihub, and launch all kinds of cool new features, and you can offer this entirely new set of features on this platform for free if you wanted to, but it'll make no difference at all. People didn't mass exodus from Ihub because of the features here, actually, they blew out of here to go to other places with far fewer features than Ihub currently has now. Cool new features and tools are not going to bring back ANY of the talented influential users, researchers, content providers and OTC traders that people used to look for and follow when they came here. They are all gone, and no amount of neat new features will bring them back, here's why...we'll use another analogy/role play:
Amit, let's say you and Tom love to play craps, it's your favorite thing to do, and you both really enjoy going to the casino, and enjoy rolling the dice and standing around the table with a bunch of other people just like you and Tom that also love playing craps and are excited about craps. So you and Tom decide to put on your best matching Rain Man suits and head off to the casino for a good time. When you guys get to the casino, you find the only craps table in the house, the stick man slides you the dice because it's your turn to roll. You grab the dice and start rolling, but as soon as you do, your table becomes surrounded by other people there in the casino that don't gamble, in fact they hate gamblers, and craps and any one that plays craps, and this large group of people starts heckling you and Tom, they start calling you degenerate gamblers, and idiots, everytime you roll the dice these people are hexing your dice and constantly heckling you. They hate you and everything casino related. Are you and Tom going to have a good time at that casino, no! In fact you are going to btfo of that casino so fast, and never go back because you'd hate that experience, right? it would be a horrible experience for you and Tom and your excitement for craps would be completely diminished. Now as you and Tom are rushing to leave that horrible casino, that same group of hecklers and rabble-rousers are cheering and celebrating as you two head for the door because they hate you, and ultimately their goal is to chase you away. Now that they have succeeded in chasing you away from that casino, are you and Tom going to go back to that casino and craps table if that casino starts offering cool new features like free drinks and food while you're playing craps? The answer is no, you wouldn't care, you'd care more about the people who chased you out of there than anything else. As long as they are still there, you and Tom are never going back.
Now this analogy is a little ridiculous because everyone knows that every single casino on earth wouldn't allow this to happen in the first place, the casino would have their security immediately escort/bounce those heckling fools that hate gambling and are terrorizing their gamblers out onto the streets, and then black list them, never letting them into their casino again. Because every casino knows that they have to protect their players, and create an atmosphere that players and high rollers can come and enjoy the experience, because casinos are smart, and they know that without their players and high rollers, their casino is worthless.
Amit, you are now the casino owner/CEO of Ihub. I have been a member here for almost 20 years. I love the OTC and have been playing it for much longer. If I didn't care about Ihub, or the other people like me that also love the OTC I would not be wasting my time here trying to convince you of what needs to be done. I have made it clear here what I think needs to be done to save this place, and if you want to have any chance of bringing the key players of the OTC and the high rollers that everyone likes to follow back to Ihub, you must create an atmosphere or "ecosystem" ethos, logos, pathos or whatever else you want to call it that is friendly to the people that like to play within the OTC. You must remove the relatively small group of agitators, trouble makers, instigators, agents provocateurs, and overall aholes that hate the OTC and anyone that trades the OTC. I could very easily make you a short list of a few dozen people that must go. They have been here for decades, easy to spot, you already know who they are, and have literally chased all of your key players/members away. Those same key players will never even consider coming back if the people that purposely chased them away are still here. You get rid of those people and they will all come back, you continue to cater to the small group of people that hate the OTC and anyone who trades it, and continue to allow them to run roughshod on your members like you have for decades, then you might as well save all of that money that you are about to dump into Ihub to develop new feature because none of that is going to work. What Ihub has allowed to happen here happens no place else on earth, no internet forums or casinos or any other analogy you can think of would of allowed this to happen to their members and patrons for this long. You don't even need new features to bring back the key players that love and are excited about the OTC, just do what I am telling you to do and they will come. Don't do what I am advising you to do, and you are just wasting your time and money, and will never solve the underlying problem that has plagued this place for decades.
New Ihub features don't excite me, or any of the old members that have been chased off. I will eagerly be awaiting to see what you and Tom do next, Amit, you are the CEO now, your decisions will decide whether I stay here or finally go. I've hit my limit with the harassment here. It's not fun at all, and it infuriates everyone except that same small group that Ihub has allowed to terrorize us and destroy this place for decades. Also, the customer service here is horrendous, your paying members are treated like trash, you're down to one admin, and that particular admin spends her free time posting with her buddies, on non stock specific boards like cooking/recipes, who happen to be run and moderated by the same group of people that hate us, the same group that hates your members. In other words, your only admin here commiserates and spends her free time with the people that hate us, they are her friends, she aligns with them, not us, so it is no wonder why we get treated like shit when we ask her for help. Please fix that. GLTY Amit. I hope you make the right decision here, it is a very easy decision and simple one to make, otherwise your goal here of bringing anyone of value back to Ihub will fail.
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