Replies to post #181969 on The Question and Answer Board (IHUB)

[DragonBear]

It's surprising how many don't understand this:

That's even worse isn't it?

The principle objective of the iHub message boards is to maintain a high signal-to-noise ratio

Presumably "signal" on a stock forum is meaningful discussion about the stock? At least an attempt at meaningful. Which leaves noise...

If I post 2X on a forum:

SPAM is the best stock ever. We gonna all be millionaires. I know that because I'm never wrong! To da moon! Yippee!!!

Is that "signal" or "noise"? How about if it's posted 2X a day, for the next 365 days? Of course sooner or later it's going to elicit a counter in the opposite direction, at the same frequency of postings. Then comes potential quoting of these types of posts, along with the auxiliary one liner responses. Followed by pissing contests. Doesn't matter if one calls it SPAM or HAM, the result is noise, amplified, and repeated, as in duplicated. Guaranteed to cause frustration to some, especially the virgin posters. Presto your Jail fills up.

The problem is while IHUB has the primary objective of high signal-to-noise, the rest of the TOS is set up to guarantee the opposite. If you guys are really serious about looking at changes to the TOS, you might consider tweaking the duplicate noise posts down to 1 every 4 days, or some other combo. You'd eliminate the noise contests real fast. The alternative is do nothing, and nothing will change.

[Sleepy2016]

more than two (2) boards within a calendar day;
Posting the same or almost identical post more than twice within a calendar day

Back to my earlier point about the daily barrage of "Daily FINRA Short Report!" posts made by certain posters to the boards of multiple stocks. Yet if I reply to each and every one with the same explanation that those numbers are not what they are being portrayed then my post is spam, not the one I'm replying to.