Bob, I agree. You state, "If this was really a good board that benefited all of its users without unwarranted deletions it should continue to be that."
Right on the money. We do agree on this common ground point.
Let me take this 1 important step further. Seeing the growth and success of the board in 9 months, one must not discount the point that warranted deletions are necessary if as you say "a good generic DD board" is the goal.
At least for me, spare me the ephedrine pie in the sky pumper whether it be constant one sentence billboard posts, or a thesis somehow trying to justify a quin-deca-scintillion valuation on a penny stock. Some have potential or valuation in the tens of millions, but the over the top stuff misleads many and distracts from people focusing on DD imho. Misleading info doesn't add up to a reliable board.
By contrast, what I mentioned earlier today offers nothing to the discussion, but has shown to distract many message boards.
I'd rather not get into the 'why are they here' debate again. Those who post in such a way and thousands upon thousands of times day and night obviously have an agenda. Some posts of many posters could be argued to be libelous. But that's not my point here. I'm trying to explore more common ground with you beyond the statement above.
I think either type of posts described in the above 2 paragraphs should be a target for a warranted deletion. Those with a constant pumping agenda either to profit on a large position taken, or try to attract buys to raise the price so a shorting effort can be set up.....or bashers who are easily spotted by the masses now and add nothing to change anyone's mind. The only real purpose I see them doing is disrupting boards to prevent continued DD on a promising company to come out.
Both are easily spotted and overtime become glaringly obvious to anyone following their posts.
People have mentioned free boards versus premium boards, as if the originator and moderators of that board can make "warrented deletions" whenever they want. That's fine and again, I not only agree with this but it should be true on all boards. Here's why...
Say Mach started a premium board on IHUB. Would he have had been allowed to delete the same posters from his premium board without any question?
I'm not being smart here. I'm honestly curious just trying to understand. It's my opinion only but others may agree when I say, if anything Mach was VERY PRUDENT and often times SLOW before making a decison to ban anyone. In a board where in 9 months of existence the rules of the board were crystal clear, and where 10's of thousands of people vistied it everyday!!!...we only see less than a handful of people banned. In my book that's pretty good. I think his judgement and adherance to rules when it came to posters kept a large percentage of bashers away. Anyone with a faint pulse and half their site can see the difference since he left.
But the main point here is my question...if he had a premium board would he be questioned for banning people not following board rules?
Thanks for your input on this,
Bo
