New story, not "girls only" but not a joke either. Shows how precarious it can be on IHub.
Halcon Resources used to be RAM RESOURCES. I think I saw them first in Motley Fool, but whatever the case, it shows initially that even the high fee "read our newsletters and make money" can always be wrong, because the stock tanked. When I got in, it was $2.25, a few months later it was under a $1 and about to lose it's AMEX status, it needed to get at least back above a buck and stay there, blah, blah, probation. (Now it's $10, but with a reverse split).
Anyway, at some point I started posting on the RAM thread, including articles and DD. It was a low amount of posters, still is.
Apparently, it had both a MOD and an Assist MOD, because they had one of those nut jobs posting, calling it a piece of anal stain. He was always posting as a "new message" vs. a reply, figuring no one would see it til too late to remove. So the two paired up to try to police the thread. Wasn't so much what he said, he ranted and referred to investors/posters as Clowns, always a personal attack thrown in. He started that long before I started posting there. Once the MODs got familiar enough with me, they asked if I would become a third set of eyes, knowing what it was for, accepted.
He never managed to get past us ever again with his personal attacks, but it got old fast. One day I suggested we all just TOS him instead of deleting ourselves. It worked. Wasn't even 3 days later, he got limited posting, still would use his "one post/day" for an attack, got banned from posting there altogether in a heartbeat.
The sigh of relief did not last long, he took his revenge by checking our profiles, and posting on other boards we moderated, always the "low traffic" ones. Same thing, personal attacks mixed in with crude remarks about RAM. Fortunately, I suspected such a thing would happen, checked his profile every morning for new postings anywhere. Sure Enough, he was all over IHub, catching him and I complained to ADMIN in the TOS complaint block for each TOS button I hit, (and the other MODs did too) that the guy was stalking each of us. Within 2 weeks, he was PERMANENTLY BANNED from IHUB, INCLUDING his ISP, so he could NOT come back under a new registration e-mail address, and we have never been bothered by him again.
THE END
AI
