The Question and Answer Board

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

act like their board is the only one on iHub.

I've witnessed the same thing for years.

The most amusing was the DGIV "Rocketeers" who were so convinced their board was 90% of the site (reality was maybe 1% of the traffic but 95% of the workload for a while) that they decided they were going to abandon SI, start their own site, and SI would fail as a result.

It was funny as hell. Until DGIV got halted.

The similarities to "ghosts of tickers past" is disconcerting, to say the least.

1. If you don't get rid of the bashers, we will move en masse to Agora.

2. Leave us alone. Let our moderators censor the "bashers", else were going to leave.

My response to both has always been and always will be "There's the door."

I think these folks would do well to do a read of the IDCC board. It's been around for only a very short time, yet is very highly ranked, despite lacking the "total posts" element of scoring that places the EDIG board so high in the rankings.

There was strife and drama for a short time and I implemented what I felt were reasonable solutions, and the board is now MUCH busier than most boards on the site, but is relatively free of the kind of stuff happening on the EDIG board.

A huge difference is that the IDCC folks, collectively, were willing to accept that iHub can't be a perfect world and to negotiate (rather than demand) solutions to their problems that would make iHub more valuable to them while staying in line with our philosophical demands of the site.

For the IDCC folks, the Filtering feature works extremely well to address most of their concerns. Why this isn't true of the EDIG folks is a whole 'nother discussion.

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/Board.asp?Board_ID=916 for any EDIG'ers who want to see how it's done. Major disagreement between factions. Very admirable peaceful coexistence.

And http://www.investorshub.com/boards/Board.asp?Board_ID=1125 which is, by far, the busiest board here. The closest thing to unpleasantness that happens there is that Zeev is actually a lot more tolerant than Matt, so he'll occasionally bust Matt's chops (in a civil way, mind you) for a deletion. He doesn't mind being blasted from time to time.