Well, after a week of being in the ET penalty box (it was about 18 days, not just two weeks), I wandered back here in anon mode, just to keep abreast of the latest threads. Imagine my surprise when I see a user starting a whole thread about me, and then today after logging in I see I got a PM from another user asking if I am literally OK on the same day this thread was created. Geez, I didn't think I was that important. My piker trading certainly does not grant me any worth.
My thoughts on this thread and the whole thing in general...
A. I have been put in the penalty box once or twice before, usually about losing control with dropping F-Bombs in trading threads. Well, I learned my lesson on that one and don't do that anymore.
B. This is first time I have been put in the ETPB (ElitleTraderPenaltyBox) for video-related stuff, so I have learned my lesson there, too. It has always been my posting style (for 25+ years) to use audio/video aids to help compliment the point I am making or highlighting in a thread. I never thought it a big deal, because in my view, if you don't want to be annoyed by a vid, THEN DON'T CLICK THE VID! Just gloss over it. I dunno, maybe some people have video auto-play set to on in their browsers. I think some browsers have that setting, depending on O/S. But I thought it a clever way to get people to use their minds to try to figure out the connection, like a puzzle. I love puzzles. K, doesn't work for many. So OK OK, I get the point, Baron (By the way, I know which thread set you off, and apologies for that one.) So now best I can do is the workaround of burying the link into response text, so it is not in peoples' faces in a trading-related thread. If that is acceptable,
@Baron ?