Thanks for your response BB. I actually was concerned I may have ticked you off and drove you back to the other board! lol...I'm glad that's not the case as it was not my intention.
Anyways, I see your point. I disagree slightly though, because I believe Mark is simply posting what he hears from his source. If it doesn't pan out, then we can say, OK, his source was wrong or late, or whatever. But, I don't believe any of his posts are lies. He's posting what he hears, and leaves it up to us to decide. He's pointing to FUTURE events and they may or may not change.
Similarly, when Oilphant posts that we are going to hit the .80's, or chatter 3.15, etc., I say that's ok, it's his guess or opinion of a FUTURE event, and that's fine with me, no big deal. If Oilphant posted 'my source says Sedco 702 status 450 feet" then once again I would simply say his source is just bad. No reason to ban him for a bad source. BUT, to me, he crossed the line when he posted lies of CURRENT Sedco drilling depths. To me, that's not a guess or opinion of something that might happen in the future, that's stating something happening currently as a fact. I believe those posts were meant to deceive because there doesn't seem to be any other rational meaning for them. I also find it very interesting that when he recently posted multiple times in 1 day (which is rare for him), it correlated with a 1.7 mil volume day. No one seemed to mention or notice this correlation. It's just one more thing that makes me go hmmmm...
Keep up the great work BB!
GLTA
AI
