Good post, man it's a ghost town here.... the other board has 179 marks and this one has 16 marks (mostly marks from posters on the other board lol) so I think the ihub community has spoken. The only ones that get angry are the ones that hold their personmarks sacred, and usually those people take themselves too seriously anyway. It's just like generational differences, the older generations think things should stay the way they were, the younger ones always want change. The only difference is that the old way of gaining a ton of personmarks was to be a P&D'er (I know there's lot's of exceptions). They would go to a board that they are pumping and tell everyone on the board what they want to here (the true longs) and then they would dump shares on them, or the people that hired them would dump and then they would move on. While they're on the board everyone loves them because they are saying what they want to hear and they shower him/her with personmarks. They would constantly go from board to board and grab tons of personmarks along the way. That's how LOT"S of posters grabbed their personmarks, so let's keep it REAL. If I wanted to do that I could just go to boards that have lot's of Boardmarks and collect Personmarks by telling everyone what they want to hear. Also, lot's of posters on these boards that became familiar with eachother would personmark eachother because they were friends. Personmark Exchange just made a clubhouse for these people that now have friends they didn't have before. I now exchange posts, stock ideas etc.. with people I wouldn't have if the board wasn't there. A lot of this negativity towards the exchange is the attitude of people getting on the boat and pulling up the ladder before anyone else gets on, people want to feel special and I think some peoples' ego was fueled by these ihub personmarks...... it's silly and I guess we are all the same in that regard, it's just to what degree! If you are looking at how many personmarks someone has and not to the content of their posts backed with your own DD, then maybe you should just find another hobby anyway, this isn't for you.
