Originally posted by zboy2854A
As moderator of the trading forum, I have to say that a large part of my time is spent having to clean up all the mud slinging, off topic rants and other garbage that many people have become so adept at, and it's hard to keep up. I think I'll scream if I see any more posts talking about who such and such's screen name really is or that TraderX=TraderQ or whatever.
Super Ego, I sincerely hope you'll consider staying on the ET boards, as when you are actually posting your trading related tutorials and information, they are interesting if nothing else. But there is no further need to continue to attack other "gurus", etc. Just post your information, and if you ignore all the other mudslinging directed to you, I assure you it will be deleted promptly so all that remains is the substance.
I should also point out to any members who find it so easy to be critical of us moderators that we do what we do here for free (in my case for almost three years) because as traders we want to see these boards be the best trading related boards on the net, not because we're trying to shut anyone down from expressing substantive opinions or information. There is no conspiracy to silence anyone critical of ET's "sponsors", there is no conspiracy at all. But sometimes we have to crack down on posts that have no substance other than attacks on someone else, innuendo, goofing off, et al. There is a difference between criticism or honest skepticism (good) and mud slinging (bad). It is disrepsectful to all the members who are actually here to learn, and if you want to sling mud or goof off, use the Chit Chat forum, not the Trading forum.
speaking of cleaning up threads, "The trend is up, market has bottomed" thread is about half mud slinging.
or is it only mudslinging at advertising gurus that you clean up?
