Quote from Baron:
Perhaps your expectations of the general public, and particularly the trading public, are too high. I don't see anything different going on here, language or otherwise, that is any different than any trading floor in the country. If you get a large group of cocky, opinionated male traders together, you'll quickly find out that things are going to be rowdy on a regular basis.
The fact of the matter is that we do moderate threads every single day and we do ban members daily as well. In fact, I can't think of one single day in 10 years where someone wasn't banned or a post or thread wasn't moderated in some way.
Hi Baron,
I think
Sponger may have been trying to state the following but just worded it differently.
I myself have been a member for many years have experience the following changes at ET:
* I have more traders on ignore in comparison to the past years.
* I'm using the complaint button more often in comparison to past years.
* I avoid more threads after seeing particular ET members get involved in those threads in comparison to past years.
* I see more traders that have been
banned return to ET via another alias and publicly announce it as such...continue their disruptive ways for
many weeks before they get banned again.
* I've seen more
personal attacks and unprofessional behavior towards sponsors than I have seen in past years.
* I see less quality of message posts in comparison to recent years that relates to actual trading.
I see more quality message posts about the business of trading.
Thus, depending upon what someone is looking for or interested in...
They could either see ET improving or getting worst.
* I see more activity by moderators themselves posting in threads like any other ET member...posting in threads that are full of personal attacks, mudslinging et cetera.
It's almost as if some moderators can only police one section while they cannot do anything in other sections (I think one moderator told me this is the case).
(Note: These threads eventually do get edited or just become inactive on its own...days later.)
Regardless, it just looks bad to see a moderator participating in a bad thread that goes unedited nor gets no warnings about problematic posts assuming the moderator read the posts before he posted and read the posts after he posted.
* When I see a few moderators tell members to put particular disruptive members on ignore instead of getting baited into another argument by that member...
That tells me the moderator knows there's a problem but the disruptive member is allowed to continue being disruptive.
Why not get rid of the disruptive member instead of advising members to use the ignore button???
As I said, my ignore list has been growing.
* I see more quality members leave ET much faster than the past years.
Last year I had a list of 15 quality active members.
Currently that list is down to 4 quality active members.
(I won't bother to disclose what I consider to be a quality member).
* I see more traders following other traders around ET just waiting for them to post so they can attack every word like a
stalker.
For example, I see more new members with 10 - 40 posts and almost every one of those posts are directed angrily at any particular member.
It's obviously, everybody talks about it and I know for
fact some moderators know about it.
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Simply, moderators do moderate, disruptive members do get banned...
The process to manage it all
seems to have become more difficult.
However, don't misunderstand, I know for
fact that you are very quick to get involved when something is brought to your attention via pm or email.
I also see less spamming and spammers are quickly removed in comparison to past years.
Mark
