Replies to post #35373 on The Question and Answer Board (IHUB)

[gotmilk]

The boards on iHub that only Premium members can access,
with a few exceptions I'll note later, are not considered by Bob
and Matt to represent the function of an investment community.

Consider an investment as a sum of the parts, where each part
is the execution of a buy/hold/sell of a stock symbol.

Included here is that Due Diligence one can exercise on these
boards while not having any position, and many in error descry
this as an invalid status to engage the flow of postings.

Bob & Matt agree that success of this investment web site
is better obtained if limited postings & features are available
under an account with no membership fees, but viewing ads.

The boards accessed only with a Premium membership were added
to allow off-topic discussions and a means for focused market talk
and investigations to be conducted off the company specific boards.

It did turn out that while the Turnip board was deemed to be one
only available for Premium membership, it turned out that many
folks discovered that it was more efficient for short trading periods
to discuss many stocks together under a single board.

Bottom line is that the Premium boards were not designed to function
in a manner to supplement or correct any limitations of the free boards.

iHub should be able to function completely using the free boards
and accomplish its design to be an investment community.

To put it another way, the creation of Premium board availability
had no focus to allow any sort of Private board functionality.

Another way to say this, the design of SI and iHub are both
completely 100% functional without Private threads or boards,
and any attempt to make them appear out of the already implemented
design will break mold of the model used.

Using only one board per stock symbol in the free zone for iHub,
that has not the SI moderator model to exclude members,
needs an addition unlike any SI has, and that is the ability
under stressful conditions that mimics Raging Bull,
to be able to transfer the RB'ness off the official stock board
and place it on the _Shadow to give relief for those that find
the RB'ness unacceptable to the point of wanting censorship,
but iHub will not allow that, but iHub can accomondate these
folks in a manner that delivers these folks off there board,
but at the same time allows full freedom to post on the board
of same stock symbol that includes a carrot on a stick to those
that were forced off, but no Moderator & no deletions.

Here both sides get relief, the longs get a RB'ness off it,
and the RB tagged folks can post without deletions.

Plus Matt need not ask Bob to code anything, as those notified
as being banned off any board will not have any code to prevent
their posting, but just a simple Go To Jail if they do.

thus,
- no Private boards needed
- longs get those RB types off the XXX board
- RB tagged types get a XXX_Shadow board with no Moderator
- all can post whatever they want on the XXX_Shadow board

doug

[Koikaze]

re: "Why is it that I am the only one that sees this???"

Could it be that most don't care???? Hmmmmmmmm???

Fred


Footnote: I haven't written to Churak in a week ... and THIS is the best I can come up with? Sheesh. Even Blondie can do better than that. fg