Since it seems most of this trolling issue is revolving around TA believers and non believers.... Most of the "detractors" and "trouble-makers" are asking fair questions and I don't see how silencing them is beneficial for anyone.
If this were a university with vetted instructors and we had problem of hecklers disrupting classes with doubts about the veracity of what is being taught..... then yes some kind of extra moderation would be justified. But this is not a university. It's a public site for open discussion. We have anonymous unproven people coming in here and promoting trading methods and styles without backing up any of their talk. Ok fine, they can teach whatever they want.... it's an open site. But in that case it is also fair to be able to question what is being taught. Dissent is healthy especially when dealing with unproven ideas. Nothing to do with TA being right or wrong....
Also keep in mind.... trading floors were not friendly places. Trash talking was common, foul language the order of the day, fights breaking out once in a while..... If you think ET "trolling" is bad you would never have survived on a trading floor. If some hindsight guru came onto the floor each day with a band of followers.... pointing out moves after the fact, etc..... you would see trolling the likes of which you've never seen!!! LOL!
You can't silence them. Just force them to start their own threads via preventing them from harassing members in another thread.
The issue is harassment and hijacking. We're not talking about someone making constructive commentary or debates...that stuff is ok in my opinion. Instead, we're talking about
trolls that do harassment (follow members around to to continue topics that has nothing to do with the thread topic)...this results in hijacking a thread.
Trolls follow others at the forum and comment (reply) to them in a stalking like behavior. Trolls will continue in other threads via hijacking the threads and changing the topic to the heated topic from another thread.
Now that you mention TA. There's many members here being trolled that do post real-time in the ES Journal threads or their own journals. Simply, its not about hindsight gurus...not even close considering most of them are gone are went to private messaging.
Thus, the same trolls have now found new targets. If threads like the ES Journal dies because the real-time trade posters have left this forum or stop posting trades...who's next...the sponsors ?
Yeah, they once went after the sponsors (Baron's livelihood) prior to 2008 and that didn't last too long...only a few of the trolls survived.
1) Put trolls on ignore
2) Ban trolls if they harass other members or continue hijacking threads when they see particular members talking about a topic that has nothing to do with TA or anything else.
Seriously, two trolls follow a member into a discussion about monitors and try to turn a conversation about computers into a conversation about TA...that's an example of thread hijacking.
Let trolls stay if they don't harass members or don't hijack threads...its as simple as that. If trolls start to interfere with Baron's ability to make money from this forum...members will not need to complain anymore.
Baron will fix the problem right away as he's done in the past before.
1) He gave them their own voice in threads called Politics, Religion and Chit Chat.
2) He has now fixed the ignore button...it works very well and my own ignore list has tripled in the past week.
3) Self-Moderating threads...many of us still waiting for this new feature.
