1) paid or unpaid crappers whose goal is to grafitti your house;
They get evicted by the site administrator.
2) need for some management tool(s) to control crappers for the beneefit of all;
Again, that's an Admin function.
3) keeping all the IH boards valuable for the vast majority of users i.e. lurkers, new investors, etc.
A strong case can be made that boards are most valuable when they contain both positive and negative information.
4) if there is not an inherent tool to manage crappers, either eviction, filtering, or some other tool, then the investment made by all the suscribers will be greatly impaired as the quality of information goes down.
There *is* such a tool. The site administrator. Plus, filtering is available to subscribers.
5) If all you want is a private (i.e. not valuable for the public) board, then other forums provide that for free e.g. Raging Bull.
That is not what we want. We don't believe in private boards as a medium for open-minded discussion of specific companies and they aren't a viable business model.
6) Subscribers get many very valuable benefits that have to do with frequency and productivity. The issue is making a critical management tool that everyone needs a subscriber only tool, then the quality of the board is ruined for the vast majority of users;
I still just plain don't understand the "need" for filtering and I don't agree that the absence of filtering for free members is a "quality" issue.
7) If you want a valluable public board, what tools are available to the public if there is no eviction and no filtering?
Most of these are just the same 1 or 2 points rephrased. As such, my answer to this one is a repeat, too: Site Administrator.
8) I for one, was not aware that filtering was a "temporary" free feature. This seems like a chage of policy. Unfortunately, perhaps to the ruin of your entire house, unless some other tool appears to ensure or at least promote higher quality information.
It started out as a Premium feature then was later modified to allow free access with the caveat that it was a temporary thing. Also, the subscription page has repeatedly included the information that Filtering is a Premium feature and can not be counted on to remain available for free. Also, over the past few months, there have been several days at a time that a notice was posted on EVERY page of the site, right below the menu, pointing out that Filtering would not remain a free feature.
9) Disk space must be a cost and concern for you, so if crappers are allowed to run rampant, then that will cost you in storage space, won't it?
1. I'm starting to really take offense at the frequent use of the word "crappers" when it apparently applies to people who are complying with the site's rules and whose major "crime" is posting negative opinions.
2. Disk space is so cheap it's almost free, and we don't use even 5% of the cheap disk space we have available.
10) I could go on and on as to why this policy change can ruin your business, IMO.
Really, I've only seen you present one item in support of free filtering: If we didn't have a site administrator, people who break the rules would be destructive to the site if others couldn't hide them. For free.
