Commercialization
- Thread starter bungrider
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How about those affiliated with advertisers posting reviews and praise of their own company without disclosing the relationship?
How about Baron deleting posts that criticize his advertisers?
How about Baron deleting posts that criticize his advertisers?
I agree. However, it would be nice if, assuming you were interested in checking out the products or services available from one of the sponsors, you didn't find yourself trapped at the site or having to deal with multiple pop-ups.
Really, I only object to the form, not the substance. Even then, only a couple that are problematic.
Really, I only object to the form, not the substance. Even then, only a couple that are problematic.
I don't have any problems with the adds. I hope Baron makes a pile of money off this site. What does concern me is the deletion of posts. Not that Baron doesn't have the right to do this (and I appreciate it in the case of profane, tasteless, unrelated posts) it's his sight. But the problem is, if this happens too much ET will be nothing more than a biased advertising medium. I think that would be unfortunate, and somewhat misleading - people would come here thinking they are seeing an open discussion when they are actually seeing filtered biased information.
New_2_this
How about those affiliated with advertisers posting reviews and praise of their own company without disclosing the relationship?
How about Baron deleting posts that criticize his advertisers?
Eldredge
I don't have any problems with the ads. I hope Baron makes a pile of money off this site. What does concern me is the deletion of posts. Not that Baron doesn't have the right to do this (and I appreciate it in the case of profane, tasteless, unrelated posts) it's his right. But the problem is, if this happens too much ET will be nothing more than a biased advertising medium. I think that would be unfortunate, and somewhat misleading - people would come here thinking they are seeing an open discussion when they are actually seeing filtered biased information.
Its called "credibility" and once you lose it its gone forever and that would be a shame because there is SOME good content here, after the "mine is bigger than yours" stuff.
How about those affiliated with advertisers posting reviews and praise of their own company without disclosing the relationship?
How about Baron deleting posts that criticize his advertisers?
Eldredge
I don't have any problems with the ads. I hope Baron makes a pile of money off this site. What does concern me is the deletion of posts. Not that Baron doesn't have the right to do this (and I appreciate it in the case of profane, tasteless, unrelated posts) it's his right. But the problem is, if this happens too much ET will be nothing more than a biased advertising medium. I think that would be unfortunate, and somewhat misleading - people would come here thinking they are seeing an open discussion when they are actually seeing filtered biased information.
Its called "credibility" and once you lose it its gone forever and that would be a shame because there is SOME good content here, after the "mine is bigger than yours" stuff.
Baron
ET Founder
Lately??? Elite Trader has been running since 1997 and advertisements have been displayed site-wide the entire time... so this is nothing new.
If you think I'm getting rich selling banner ads, then you should learn more about the web advertising business. The vast majority of sites that depend strictly on ad revenue lose money while the rest hover around the break even mark. That's why sites like TheStreet.com and CBS MarketWatch are moving away from advertising to subscription-based services like selling stock picks.
Most of the time posts are removed for the reasons you described (off topic, tasteless, etc.) The remainder of the posts that are removed are from people who come on the boards as unauthorized advertisers pitching their products/services which are mainly things like pirated trading software, stock scams, etc.
Also, most posts are removed because other members use the kill function to request that they be removed, not because I deleted it on my own. In addition, I don't moderate every forum. Most forums are moderated by volunteers who are regular members that have no bias whatsoever other than to keep the discussion somewhat clean.
