Copied from a PM so I can encourage this discussion to take place publicly rather than just pissing me off with private nasty-grams.
just wanted to thank you for taking the filtering ability off...you sure allowed this board to turn in to a piece of shit...you have now allowed the bashers to destroy the vehicle that allowed the true investors of this company the ability to communicate and discuss the due diligence...
i will not pay and have no intention of paying...i have over 200 people that are invested in this stock that read this board on a daily basis...both they and i do not post at all...
to say i am disappointed is an understatement...you have now ruined a great forum for thousands of people....there is nothing but trash every other post....people don't have the time to wade through all the shit that is not allowed to be displayed..
i had a list of names that i sent to all my people for them to put on ignore...you have allowed the disruption of this forum and i am pissed..i wish we never left the raging bull...
i think it would be in your best interest to change the format to allow filtering..
My reply:
Precisely the kind of message that makes me even more inclined to make sure that Filtering is never free again.
i think it would be in your best interest to change the format to allow filtering..
Filtering is allowed and has always been part of the Premium featureset.
But I know what you really mean is that it would be in my best interest to allow Free Filtering.
Why would it be in my best interest? Remember that not only am I a programmer and message-board fan, I'm also a businessman. So, why would it be in my best interest to allow free filtering?
you sure allowed this board to turn in to a piece of shit...
you have now ruined a great forum for thousands of people....
there is nothing but trash every other post
The above 3 phrases are major exaggerations. I've been reading the board in question, and have not observed any of the above. Exaggeration and hyperbolic rhetoric won't sway my opinion in the direction you would like it swayed.
i have over 200 people that are invested in this stock that read this board on a daily basis
I don't know if this sentence was intended to convey to me that there's a monetary cost of making Filtering a Premium feature again, but if that's the idea, it doesn't work.
i had a list of names that i sent to all my people for them to put on ignore...
Lovely. And if the people you told everyone to ignore posted something very relevant that warned of a catastrophic plunge in stock price, would you personally compensate these people you told to ignore them? You wouldn't rather they decide for themselves whose posts to heed and whose not to? Personally, I wouldn't want the responsibility you assume by doing that.
over 200 people ...
...both they and i do not post at all...
Interesting claim when far fewer than 200 people have the main-ignored person there filtered out and only 29 of them have never posted.
true investors of this company the ability to communicate and discuss the due diligence
Don't even get me started on that particular statement.
If you can give me some solid reasons why filtering should go back to being a free feature, I'd appreciate hearing them. And please lose the hyperbole and rhetoric (and vitriol) when you do. They don't strengthen your case.
I'm all ears.
