Why the need?
I was recently asked the following questions by a Long I respect: "Why the need for a new board? What do we gain by it?"
I will attempt to answer that question and will then ask a few questions of my own.
"Why the need for a new board?"
It seems there may be a mistaken impression that this is intended to be a replacement for the RB board. That is simply not the case. If you will reread the header statement you will find that the intent behind it was to be a place where Integral's Loyal Longs can chat about the current and future prospects of this company.
You respond, "We can do that on RB."
This is true. However, the flow of information is many times hindered on RB because of all the trashers and bashers who gather there. My lands, we even have multiple aliases from ANOTHER stock board gathering there! Come on!
You respond, "We could have that here."
Again, this is true. However, we have a couple of options / advantages available to us on IHub that we don't have on RB.
"What is that" you say?
We have the advantage of being relatively UNKNOWN; at least for a little while. Hence, the spammers' and bashers' posts should be relatively few. An option we supposedly have available to us is to TOS the rascals ourselves if we want to.
You say, "I LIKE the bashers' posts! they provide me a lot of entertainment!"
haha Now THAT is TWISTED! I guess you could always go to the RB board if you need your 'basher' fix!
"I still don't see what we gain by it, GK."
I would ask, "What do we lose?" Another channel / means of communication would seem to be a good thing. How many times have you gotten sick of RB? The site's down...the spammers move in...people are just plain acting 'goofy'. At least here we can be goofy among friends.
Another advantage is the ability to follow the posts or links to the 'replies' a little bit easier than you can in an e-mail format. Also, once a post is submitted you have 10 minutes to go back and CHANGE anythng that doesn't suit you about your original post.
"But it's not as private as e-mail."
You are speaking in relative terms. E-mail is not necessarily private. Have you heard of Enron? Al-Queda? There are multitudinous examples of it being sent / given to someone other than the intended recipients.
I sent at least three requests for feedback from the e-mail circle and received very few responses. Army, M, NY, PK and Jedi gave some feedback, but that's about it.
My initial question still stands: "How does THIS group want to utilize this board (or not utilize it, whatever the case may be)?
There are many things to discuss pertaining to Integral's current and future prospects. This is a very knowledgeable and savvy group of investors. To follow NY's lead, not only do I look forward to "getting rich together," I likewise look forward to learning together.
Thanks for reading and for your past contributions to those learning experiences.
gktignol
I was recently asked the following questions by a Long I respect: "Why the need for a new board? What do we gain by it?"
I will attempt to answer that question and will then ask a few questions of my own.
"Why the need for a new board?"
It seems there may be a mistaken impression that this is intended to be a replacement for the RB board. That is simply not the case. If you will reread the header statement you will find that the intent behind it was to be a place where Integral's Loyal Longs can chat about the current and future prospects of this company.
You respond, "We can do that on RB."
This is true. However, the flow of information is many times hindered on RB because of all the trashers and bashers who gather there. My lands, we even have multiple aliases from ANOTHER stock board gathering there! Come on!
You respond, "We could have that here."
Again, this is true. However, we have a couple of options / advantages available to us on IHub that we don't have on RB.
"What is that" you say?
We have the advantage of being relatively UNKNOWN; at least for a little while. Hence, the spammers' and bashers' posts should be relatively few. An option we supposedly have available to us is to TOS the rascals ourselves if we want to.
You say, "I LIKE the bashers' posts! they provide me a lot of entertainment!"
haha Now THAT is TWISTED! I guess you could always go to the RB board if you need your 'basher' fix!
"I still don't see what we gain by it, GK."
I would ask, "What do we lose?" Another channel / means of communication would seem to be a good thing. How many times have you gotten sick of RB? The site's down...the spammers move in...people are just plain acting 'goofy'. At least here we can be goofy among friends.
Another advantage is the ability to follow the posts or links to the 'replies' a little bit easier than you can in an e-mail format. Also, once a post is submitted you have 10 minutes to go back and CHANGE anythng that doesn't suit you about your original post. "But it's not as private as e-mail."
You are speaking in relative terms. E-mail is not necessarily private. Have you heard of Enron? Al-Queda? There are multitudinous examples of it being sent / given to someone other than the intended recipients.
I sent at least three requests for feedback from the e-mail circle and received very few responses. Army, M, NY, PK and Jedi gave some feedback, but that's about it.
My initial question still stands: "How does THIS group want to utilize this board (or not utilize it, whatever the case may be)?
There are many things to discuss pertaining to Integral's current and future prospects. This is a very knowledgeable and savvy group of investors. To follow NY's lead, not only do I look forward to "getting rich together," I likewise look forward to learning together.
Thanks for reading and for your past contributions to those learning experiences.
gktignol
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