The Question and Answer Board

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

If a board did strike up that was active in MTON or CGO, I'd sell. No questions about it. Or before I had to make an Admin move, I'd sell.

Though at the time Jill was no longer a site admin, we (Legal and I) had an understanding that if an active board popped up about a stock I was involved in, I would get out of the stock and Jill would handle any admin duties involving that board. We ended up doing that in only one situation.

Feel free to do the same here.

Plus, I'll be honest. Do you have any idea what it's like to start a site because you like/love discussing stocks, then not be able to for 3-4 years?

Nobody here but me can truly appreciate that. I happened to be on SI to begin with because of my interest in the market and I was a very active daytrader.

Taking on the Admin role meant having to decide which of the two was more important to me because they were largely mutually exclusive.

Not only does posting about stocks raise the potential for the perception of bias (and the perception is nearly as destructive to a forum as the reality would be), it also doesn't look good to have the appearance of being busy with anything but the admin role during the day.

I'd be wasting years of productive trading lessons to just sit here and Admin and that's it.

That's the cost, IMO. But as a compromise, I'd suggest keeping your trading activities private. Keep in mind, too (as I was frequently reminded by Legal) that it's only a matter of time before your trading records get subpoena'd by a disgruntled ex-member. I'm not aware of it happening in my case, but I did have to send copies of my monthly account statements to GNET's Legal department.