Let's say there are five people who don't like one person's posts. They all complain. What's the easiest thing to do? Get rid of the one person, doesn't matter who's right or wrong.
This was the bane of my existence at SI in the OTCBB heyday. And the numbers were (literally) 100 people or more not liking one person's posts. They felt that "might makes right" (or, as they put it, if so many people agreed, then surely they were right), and when I started suspending various potty-mouths who happened to be longs, and wasn't suspending naysayers, whose real offense was "lying about our company" (we're talking DGIV and MTEI here), the multitude who disliked the few just up and left.
From a purely business perspective, a bad thing at face value. But there's this little thing I'm way into called "right vs. wrong" and I wouldn't deny someone their ability to speak up only because what they said was unpopular. And in the end, I remain convinced, you get more mileage down the road out of showing integrity than out of just pleasing the masses.
Anyway, I personally like the idea of people being *allowed* to create more threads for a stock. If their thread isn't well-run, it doesn't survive. If their thread is populated just by one person posting all of their own negative opinions, well that still benefits the smart investors a lot better than them posting to an intolerant thread where their posts get deleted.
And before anyone thinks I've got a problem with a bunch of deletions I've seen, I don't. It's the widespread perception I'm addressing.
