Matt,
I'm not defending Hollen, I just don't see that he's doing anything differently than he always has. But I have noticed a change in IH management "style" over the past few months.
Straight up, in order for IH to be useful to me I want to see both alleged "touts" and alleged "bashers" posting. Neither side getting even the appearance of preferential treatment from management. If a person like Hollen is posting about stocks and isn't considered disruptive by the board moderators of the boards he's on what's the difference whether he C&P's or writes original content? You keep quoting how many posts he has had deleted... how many of those were in the last 30 days? 60 days? This year?
I wonder how much of this is Hollen being wrong and how much of this is IH trying to save face in the ongoing assault from his old nemesis here?
From over here in the cheap seats it looks like you're getting all in a bother over three posts a day.
As for how seriously everybody is being taken... look at the number of quality people that have departed or seriously reduced their contribution because they felt they weren't being taken seriously. Myself included.
Whether IH management is truly thumbing it's nose at it's long time users or not remains to be seen...but the perception that you are is growing.
The Bird of Prey
Sometimes it is not enough to avoid evil... sometimes you must avoid even the appearance of evil.