Matt - Bad move in my opinion.
Be honest, the site is growing and is becoming more time consuming to manage. Couple that with Bob spending most of his time at SI. In my opinion the acquisition of SI stretched both of you too thin and from what I read in that post - Bob is just trying to come up with an idea that will take less of his time to manage all because Bob wants to play programmer and not Cop. (may sound harsh, but those are the facts as I see them)
IHub is a community of people and although your primary vision and goal is discussion of stocks, the fact of the matter is that many post here for reasons other than stocks. If you create different standards for non-stock boards you will in my opinion open up a can of worms, or may be a Pandora's box. Or you'll turn every non-stock thread into a Jailhouse type environment, where virtually anything goes. Once that happens you'll see a plethora of new boards just made those for select few that agree eye to eye and damn the rest. Hey how about a NAMBLA board - sounds sickening doesn't it?
Did you know that Saudia Arabia for 10 years now has banned the Barbie Doll? (my attempt at trying to be like gotmilk - and toss in a brain fart. lol)
I think you need to take a good long hard look at this site and where you envision it down the road in say 3 years. Factor in the growth rate you have been experiencing, how are you going to deal with it? IHub will continue to grow, IMO, and why - because it is more desirable than that cess pool of a site called Raging Bull and Yahoo and a host of others. But as you grow you will have growing pains. Letting people duke it out on Non-stock boards doesn't solve the problems.
Hey my 2 cents, now time to watch Arnold chat with O'Reilly on Fox news. And a special thanks to AK, who cared enough to PM me about this issue, other wise I would have missed it, been busy of late. Good night Matt.
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