6. Stealth vendors need to be identified immediately and either pay the required fees for advertising on this site or banned from posting---PERIOD. a stealth vendor is anyone who sells education, trading courses, seminars, pamphlets, books, or any website that requires payment to obtain the "information". Stealth vendors are very tricky and post as regular site users but have an agenda to sell items and do this secretly via PM , email, and other means up to and including utilizing other people and sites in their devious behavior.
Stealth vendors are generally strong proponents of Technical Analysis and make consistent and regular claims of never or rarely a losing day. This draws in the "students" to find a way to identify and contact these charlatans for help. This springs the trap and the marketing of their services is done without payment to the site.
One primary way to identify these folks is that they call anyone who points out that they are vendors, making up stories , or not making sense-- a troll. They demand banishment of those who disagree with them. Then, the naive and guru seekers, fast money crowd piles on supporting the stealth vendor against the troll --- the naive guru seekers believe that by supporting the stealth vendor ET guru they might get "free" information or training from the stealth vendor.
These naive souls who support the stealth vendor gurus are very few in number. Numbering less than 10, they make much noise about wanting self moderation so they can feel powerful by protecting the stealth vendors.
I have a list of these trouble making aliases as well as stealth vending "educators"--- which ill be happy to share with the sites management. It's about time the phony educators who don't pay to advertise and their few followers get banned forever or pay to post.
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