Moving Forward: Your Opinion of ET

[marketsurfer]

Quote from EPrado:

One final note Surf. As far as threads not taking heat. I can't tell you how many times I got warnings to lay off you and not post in your threads. So if that's the case what good were any of your threads?

I never requested moderator oversight on my threads. I welcome opposing points of view.

You guys must have gotten personal or violated some site rule to get reprimanded.

Peace, surf

 

[EPrado]

Quote from marketsurfer:

That's your opinion, man. Unfortunately, if you agreed with me you wouldn't get so upset. Remember, you just need to place me on ignore and you will never see surf again. Removing those you disagree with is dictator like-- it ruins the integrity of the site by silencing anyone who disagrees. Everyone all ready has this power via ignore. But to give the power to everyone to keep others from reading a particular point of view is truly evil.

surf

I don't have a problem with your anti-TA opinion.

It's how you rant on like a lunatic about it at times being beyond irrational. Not for anything Surf, but over the years I have seen very few people go out of their way to trash a strategy...and those people either blew out their accounts or got canned from their firm for trading losses. As you love to say...."Jealousy must suck".


Yes...I can ignore you. But you find your way into some very good threads and clog them up will all your bs. In your case even ignoring you doesn't work. That's why my idea of letting the OP decide who is being reckless and removing them works.

Seriously......how is it helping a thread when people are talking about strategies they use and your train wreck rolls into the thread telling everyone they are wrong and full of crap? What are you accomplishing?

 

[EPrado]

Surf,

It's interesting how you never found your way into The ACD thread. Those guys use price action/TA based trading.

Why don't you venture over there?


It will be a hoot watching them use you as a pinata.......

 

[Jack_Larkin]

I agree with EPrado; the ability to prevent toxic posters from participating in a given thread is a feature found on thriving forums all over the net.

Usually, the option on other forums is to prevent anyone already on your ignore list from posting in a thread you start.

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It appears this idea scares smurf, probably because it limits his ability to have an audience.

 

[bwolinsky]

Quote from Jack_Larkin:

I agree with EPrado; the ability to prevent toxic posters from participating in a given thread is a feature found on thriving forums all over the net.

Usually, the option on other forums is to prevent anyone already on your ignore list from posting in a thread you start.

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It appears this idea scares smurf, probably because it limits his ability to have an audience.

It's a political tool to ignore questions asked that would weaken a poster's position. Moderation is required if actual debate is being asked, which means smurf would have had to have been required to answer questions asked of him and since he only posts his responses to less informed people, this is the type of moderation that is required and the nkhoi style of removing commentary especially in all the Jack Hershey threads is especially repulsive and I'm glad he isn't around anymore as a moderator. That's a requirement and mostly points are deducted and everybody sees ignorance of posters asking such questions as being a non-response that means that they can only agree to the counterpoint.

 

[FXforex]

Quote from Jack_Larkin:

I agree with EPrado; the ability to prevent toxic posters from participating in a given thread is a feature found on thriving forums all over the net.

Usually, the option on other forums is to prevent anyone already on your ignore list from posting in a thread you start.

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It appears this idea scares smurf, probably because it limits his ability to have an audience.

Just like EPrado you are not providing links to threads which would benefit from this feature. How about a link to one of these thriving forums so that other ET members can see how it works?

 

[Jack_Larkin]

Quote from marketsurfer:

That's your opinion, man. Unfortunately, if you agreed with me you wouldn't get so upset. Remember, you just need to place me on ignore and you will never see surf again. Removing those you disagree with is dictator like-- it ruins the integrity of the site by silencing anyone who disagrees. Everyone all ready has this power via ignore. But to give the power to everyone to keep others from reading a particular point of view is truly evil.

surf

No surf, people will not be silenced for simply disagreeing.

Posters who want a dialogue -- where open minds share ideas -- will still get contrasting views they can learn and grow from.

Most forums thrive on this concept. You, however, seem to think the biggest ego wins, and there's not much dialogue with that.. just a shouting match that some of us would love the chance to squelch in our own threads.

 

[Jack_Larkin]

Quote from FXforex:

Just like EPrado you are not providing links to threads which would benefit from this feature. How about a link to one of these thriving forums so that other ET members can see how it works?

Before anything else, I never said a word about current threads I felt require such a feature.

This is a matter of personal preference. To turn it on for threads that you start should you feel it is required.

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ForexFactory operates in the 'ignored users are prevented from posting in threads you start' way.

Before anyone says a word about the subject matter (primarily FX trading), it is still a trading related forum, and it ranks much higher than ET in terms of traffic and popularity:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/forexfactory.com

So popular, they command an impressive Global rank of ~1,340 on alexa.

 

[William Rennick]

Chief, keep it the same but try to add some excitement. I'm talking things like ET sanctioned trading contests like the old CNBC/USA TODAY contests. Also, how about ET awards for best poster, best thread, best post, biggest boobs,etc...and how about an ET roast once a month?

Rennick out

 

[marketsurfer]

It's definitly odd that the 5th most popular site linking to elite is something called black hat world and the number one site is Amazon due to some Russian political rant? Not to mention the #1 key phrase is "quality one minute forex data". No wonder this site is on a downward trend. No wonder the voting has gone as it has--- blackhat hackers usually like anonymity.

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