get a recipe for fruitcakes, you got way too much idle baking time on your hands. find some currants and pecans or something :-\Quote
I just looked; I can't find it. Maybe it was mistakenly deleted...
I agree with FRuiTY, censorship's not cool, but it's a free country, and if the owners of the site want to kill all inappropriate content, that's their prerogative. If he has the power, there are a few posters Babak should kill as well (uhhh, you know what I mean).
I think more important than deleting threads entirely is promptly putting them into ChitChat if they're obviously posted in the wrong place. It was really noticeable during the Iraq Invasion - "How will evil Saddam's hoard of WMDs affect AOL stock?" and "Will the fact that the wussy gay Democrats hate freedom and want to destroy America move the markets?" Maybe there should be a politics section, you could name it "Our Evil Overlords".Then people wouldn't have to stretch to make their offtopic posts seem like legitimate trading questions. My vote (which, like in the elections, doesn't count), is that all content should be kept online if possible. There are many scientists studying this site trying to understand the trader's psyche, and all these posts (especially ChitChat) give insight into our twisted little subculture. Also, much of the evidence collected here can be used to ban trading altogether in the future as the addiction of the obscenely mentally ill.
And for FRuiTY and his lovely female friends, maybe the powers that be can make a new section: "The Cesspool", where over-hormoned, macho, bring me your freeking meats and cheeses guys can go and blow off some steam with others of their kind after a hard day's trading. Oh, and not just their own kind, but the opposite sex as well. Slap a warning sticker on it so Father O'Flanagan doesn't burn his eyeballs out while he's here looking for 401k info.
That might sound like I'm inviting off-topic posts, (which I don't want, there's enough already) but I always found the best tips were acquired from hanging around the WaterCooler, I'd hate to see anything of value disappear because some teenybopper posts his dream girl pic...
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who deleted the girlfriend/wife thread?
- Thread starter FRuiTY PeBBLe
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I think Babak's on the record as having said something to the effect that Chit Chat, contrary to popular belief, isn't somewhere you can post any old drivel; that, I guess by his estimate, the thread needs to have at least a pretension of substance behind it.
The ET description under "Community Lounge" says: "Yes, there is more to life than trading! Drop in here to discuss things like politics, religion, cars, etc."
"Things like politics, religion, cars etc". Well, we'd all agree that those are definitely topics that are of some significance to people. I would have thought then that a thread about girlfriends would be quite permissible under those guidelines.
I didn't see the thread in question, but if it only consisted of pictures of naked women then I'm not sure it could be called a "discussion"; and, under those circumstances Babak was probably right to delete it.
But, as has been said, for Babak to then go and start a thread fawning over a girl he finds attractive is about as big a double-standard as you're likely to find.
And yeah, I notice Babak is mysteriously silent. You'd think he'd have noticed this thread by now -- afterall, what good is an ET moderator that doesn't read ET? -- so we can assume he's got something to hide.
The ET description under "Community Lounge" says: "Yes, there is more to life than trading! Drop in here to discuss things like politics, religion, cars, etc."
"Things like politics, religion, cars etc". Well, we'd all agree that those are definitely topics that are of some significance to people. I would have thought then that a thread about girlfriends would be quite permissible under those guidelines.
I didn't see the thread in question, but if it only consisted of pictures of naked women then I'm not sure it could be called a "discussion"; and, under those circumstances Babak was probably right to delete it.
But, as has been said, for Babak to then go and start a thread fawning over a girl he finds attractive is about as big a double-standard as you're likely to find.
And yeah, I notice Babak is mysteriously silent. You'd think he'd have noticed this thread by now -- afterall, what good is an ET moderator that doesn't read ET? -- so we can assume he's got something to hide.
thank you........yes....good pointsQuote from alfonso:
But, as has been said, for Babak to then go and start a thread fawning over a girl he finds attractive is about as big a double-standard as you're likely to find.
And yeah, I notice Babak is mysteriously silent. You'd think he'd have noticed this thread by now -- afterall, what good is an ET moderator that doesn't read ET? -- so we can assume he's got something to hide.
fruity wins....
remember fruity, it was someone else who 1st pointed out babaks dreams/illusions of grandeur.
he's a canadian. A U.S. wannabee.
He has no life, no girls, so he writes a thread on girls he fantasizes about. He's probably a mr. market lookalike.
When you have such little clout in the real world, you take your licks when you can. And he gets his jollies, from censoring a message board. I would not be surprised if he spanked his monkey while he hits the "delete" button.
Of course babak would have responded to this, if he had any case whatsoever. He doesn't.
He can't even predict the market. His "journal" is the funniest thing I've read. He's been crying sell for well over a month, even as the market continued to go against him. And he finally turned neutral (as I predicted) at 950 S&P. And when he turned neutral, the market dropped. Then he went bearish again, and the market has risen since. Loooooser!
JJ
he's a canadian. A U.S. wannabee.
He has no life, no girls, so he writes a thread on girls he fantasizes about. He's probably a mr. market lookalike.
When you have such little clout in the real world, you take your licks when you can. And he gets his jollies, from censoring a message board. I would not be surprised if he spanked his monkey while he hits the "delete" button.
Of course babak would have responded to this, if he had any case whatsoever. He doesn't.
He can't even predict the market. His "journal" is the funniest thing I've read. He's been crying sell for well over a month, even as the market continued to go against him. And he finally turned neutral (as I predicted) at 950 S&P. And when he turned neutral, the market dropped. Then he went bearish again, and the market has risen since. Loooooser!
JJ
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I'm not feeling the love here for Babak...