Moving Forward: Your Opinion of ET

[marketsurfer]

Quote from EPrado:

I think Baron and Mods do a fine job keeping out the psychopaths and overall "bad people". I am not discounting what they do. The problem is certain people (Surf, EMG....etc) find it necessary to pollute good threads with nonsense. Let the person who starts the thread/conversation decide what kind of content they want in the discussion THEY started. Now obviously if some psycho starts raving liking a lunatic, making threats, etc and the OP doesn't ban him, then Baron/Mods can take over and rid the bad seed. They should have full authority as it's their site to delete the people who break obvious rules.

This can only help this site and get it back on track.

How many aliases does this person have? Reads like a brother or twin of R Rasnilikov---MODS, PLEASE CHECK THE IP's OF THIS PERSON and RR. you consider disagreement to be pollution. It is what fuels this site. Happily King Baron understands and self moderation of threads will never see the light of day on this site. But positive changes like real names, and social media links will be instituted. That will be the end of these multi alias troll types. surf

 

[bwolinsky]

Quote from Jack_Larkin:

"""Ignored users are prevented from posting in threads you start""" Is how other forums (who are thriving) have implemented this idea.

That isn't giving anyone full moderation rights over their own thread.

All it does is prevent another poster who the thread starter already has set on ignore from participating in a given thread. That's all.

Think about that, the thread starter already ignores the person, so they aren't interested in conversing with them anyway, and it's the thread starter's thread after all. It is a very soft (we aren't talking about moderation level deleting) and fair way to cut down on a lot of the ego pissing matches that contribute nothing.

I repeat from my earlier post (since you chose to continue trying to turn this into something else.):

This only promotes flame wars and no it does not mean those sites are thriving as what you're suggesting is inherently unfair and not a good suggestion.

Not all of us spend all day in the politics section.

 

[sheda]

Forex is a real market regardless of your opinion, why did you feel the need to throw ta in there with your little attack on forex? Can you please list the most recent ten users names to be attracted to this site by forex and cause trouble, if you can not your opinion is baseless, it can not be reasoned with, it adds no value to the site and its the exact kind of thing people want to do away with.

Quote from marketsurfer:

Yes, most of the trolls on this site arise from Forex related key words. This use to be a site with a majority of real professional traders in real markets like stocks and futures. I still say ban all FOREX and much of the trouble will go away.

I trust the moderators to rid the site of trouble--- if you want to play junior cop, start your own site--- this is elitetrader not vigilante TA forex freaks.com surf

 

[EPrado]

If someone starts a thread about how they trade whether its TA, Fundamentals, Weather patterns, what their dog recommends.....why shouldn't they have the ability to decide who is in the thread just to pollute it with garbage? What harm is that?

You have done absolutely nothing to destroy anyone's methods. You have embarrassed yourself to the point that any credibility you had is gone man. Kaput. Do you realize that nobody agrees with your anti TA stuff? All you have done is embarrass yourself with your Price Drivers which offer no value. Let's be real. You come on here after the Dow dropped 150 from the high and said "the high is in". Dude...that's minor league noobie trade bs. Then Dow sets new high and you say you are done. Then you make another call the next day.

Then someone argues with you and you say you are leaving ET for good. Then back a day or so Later.

You are a drama queen Surf...nothing more.

Quote from marketsurfer:

It absolutely has everything to do with ANY OPINION the thread started doesn't like or agree with. Otherwise, the mods would be sufficient. Just because I destroyed the TA mythos and it makes you angry-- doesn't give you the right to quash others opinions. Just a terrible idea. surf

 

[bwolinsky]

Quote from Jack_Larkin:

Actually, this is a private site and the owners decide what the rules are, including what "rights" a member has.

So don't start with that.




Site killing? ForexFactory--the forum I gave as an example--looks pretty healthy when compared to ET. In fact, you could argue that such high amount of filtering and control is part of what makes the place thrive. (They have a higher rate of posts, greater member base, more active members, etc... also, no signs of decline like we are seeing at ET.)

Actually, before you say "site killing" again, please validate your statement by showing us a real world example where a forum 'died' solely thanks to this proposed idea.

I already provided an example of where it works (you know, because I'm trying to be helpful to Baron in this thread, and want to suggest things I know work in real life) so please back up your own statements with hard evidence if you want to argue against it.

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This suggestions more in p&r and we just want better moderation for debate.

We need elite trader modernized with the Facebook LinkedIn YouTube social sites and the rest of the others I don't think need any additional functionality than share links.

 

[marketsurfer]

Quote from EPrado:

If someone starts a thread about how they trade whether its TA, Fundamentals, Weather patterns, what their dog recommends.....why shouldn't they have the ability to decide who is in the thread just to pollute it with garbage? What harm is that?

You have done absolutely nothing to destroy anyone's methods. You have embarrassed yourself to the point that any credibility you had is gone man. Kaput. Do you realize that nobody agrees with your anti TA stuff? All you have done is embarrass yourself with your Price Drivers which offer no value. Let's be real. You come on here after the Dow dropped 150 from the high and said "the high is in". Dude...that's minor league noobie trade bs. Then Dow sets new high and you say you are done. Then you make another call the next day.

Then someone argues with you and you say you are leaving ET for good. Then back a day or so Later.

You are a drama queen Surf...nothing more.

This is your opinion, you are entitled to it. The logical course of action is to put the marketsurfer alias on ignore. You will never or rarely see his opinion again. Why don't you do this right now? But you would rather be able to make the decision for everyone, right? You want the power to quash any opinion you don;t like on your thread so others cant see it? You are acting like some kind of right wing dictator man. Check your head and your multi aliases.

surf:eek:

 

[EPrado]

I will give you 1000-1 odds that he and I are not the same. You can bet as little as a dollar.

You can pay me when you move down here.

Quote from marketsurfer:

How many aliases does this person have? Reads like a brother or twin of R Rasnilikov---MODS, PLEASE CHECK THE IP's OF THIS PERSON and RR. you consider disagreement to be pollution. It is what fuels this site. Happily King Baron understands and self moderation of threads will never see the light of day on this site. But positive changes like real names, and social media links will be instituted. That will be the end of these multi alias troll types. surf

 

[marketsurfer]

Quote from bwolinsky:

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This suggestions more in p&r and we just want better moderation for debate.

We need elite trader modernized with the Facebook LinkedIn YouTube social sites and the rest of the others I don't think need any additional functionality than share links.

Amen. Better moderation i agree with 100%, self moderation will ruin the site. Big difference.

surf

 

[R. Raskolnikov]

And he's terrified at the idea of losing his audience for those theatrics, hence the huge fit he's currently throwing.

Quote from EPrado:



You are a drama queen Surf...nothing more.

 

[marketsurfer]

Quote from EPrado:

I will give you 1000-1 odds that he and I are not the same. You can bet as little as a dollar.

You can pay me when you move down here.

Nah, you say you are not him, I believe you. I'll be down there for the winter in October.