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the major portion of my profits come from post 10:30 trading, so it's definitely possible to be profitable and not trading the first hour. working out a reliable, consistent method to trade that first hour (where the swings are delicious!) is my major obstacle to going to the next level in...

snake, someone COULD post more crap in the other forums (not anywhere near the extent that he could in chitchat), but those posts get DELETED. and whether or not the trading advice is crappy or not, it would be TRADING advice, and therefore RELEVANT. well, you don't even have 100 posts...

not workable? as if! it would be a breeze! (and it seems the majority is agreeing)

well this is quite the about face isn't it... from "no no, we must count EVERYTHING" to "nah, there's no need to count 'em at all.." geez.

here are some thread titles that have recently appeared in ChitChat: gay... Please vote on your favorite water type Favorite Movie Quotes Who is Fruity Should Candletrader Be Censored What to do with HarryTrader Do you trade naked do we really wanna count crap like...

i don't think counting posts above 1000 does any harm. it's fun to know who has how many posts. i highly doubt that anyone posts simply to get his total number of posts up.

yes, retroactive. i totally agree. * i stand to lose about half of my posts (and perhaps elite status) if the proposed legislation is enacted in this manner, so there's certainly no personal glory attached to my position.

i've worked it out already. too easy.

principles abra. it's about principles! someone has to take a stand abra. if not me, who? if not now, when?

perhaps if people slowed down enough to read the first post BEFORE placing their vote, things would become MUCH clearer. but no... instead they react like pavlovian dogs.. see a poll..ooh gotta vote gotta vote :mad:

are you an English speaker? if you are, which bit don't you understand? "Should we count posts made in chit chat towards the total posts?" it's either : 1. DEFINITELY NOT or 2. yes (we should) :confused:

then maybe we could give ChitChat (i'll readily agree that it's a very popular forum) its own Post counter. and we could have a tally of the top ChitChat contributors. a fair compromise? hell, we could even have a participation tally for all the forums. actually, i think that's a great...

Freudian slip huh? the issue isn't how ENTERTAINING the posts are, it is how RELEVANT TO TRADING they are. i agree that there are a lot of crap posts in other forums. i never suggested this was a magic bullet to cure ET of its ills. as i said to you earlier, it's about IMPROVEMENT...

well fruity, inadvertantly, it DOES! it calls a member with more than 500 posts to his name ELITE. so someone new to these boards will look at a poster, see his ELITE title, and think 'hmm, elite member... " and probably think that person's opinion counts a little more. but if that...

yes, you're right. it's an improvement from my point of view. but the point was that these ideas SHOULD be put forward and discussed; not simply defer to the status quo.

counting votes made in the chit chat forum as part of a member's total posts is a terrible idea. originally, the Chit Chat forum was created because too many threads began going not only away from the TRADING topic being discussed, but away from discussing TRADING full stop. people were...

IMPROVEMENT candle, it's about IMPROVEMENT.

dammit fruity! can't you see that it most certainly is NOT fine? if Baron wants to mislead his readership, that's his problem. i trust he is astute and intelligent enough to realize that counting the posts in chit chat is just plain wrong.

your compassion is admirable candle. what a humanitarian... but it's also totally misplaced. the point is we want to make being an ELITE member something rare; something desirable; something not available to the common joe; something....elite. and even if we don't make ELITE only...

probably the PSYCHO network. :D