Why was insider trading banned ?

Joe · Sep 6, 2009

Quote from IShopAtPublix:

I hope you did not kick him out permanently. There is a lot of scum in P&R and taking out a left leaning poster makes the imbalance even greater towards knuckleheads(people like Lucrum)

i'd be willing to put his account back if he agreed to back off his language use.

monty21 · Sep 6, 2009

Quote from JB Marlin:

And I thought I was the only one that enjoyed insider lol

JB Marlin,

You obviously are insider... registered in September... 4 posts... and are worried about insider being banned. (scramble that IP address).

Nothing wrong with that.

P/R should not exist anyhow.. forum is a joke and irrelevant to trading. But it provides points to the website because people spent time discussing nonsense.

JB Marlin · Sep 6, 2009

Quote from Joe:

Yes, I saw it all. Dl603 did start it. However I've had members come to me in the past reporting that one particular member will not leave them alone. They send me links to multiple threads where the offender will not stop and 9/10 times the offender is banned. Inside trader, just shot his mouth off consistently and that's why I put a ban on his account.

As others have said Joe almost everybody shoots their mouth off in the politics section,with the warning before entering the politics section I thought it was the normal thing to do

Of course its your call but I wanted to voice my opinion that it wasn't fair considering everybody does it and in that particular incident insider was not the one who started it .Happy trading everyone

Joe · Sep 6, 2009

Quote from JB Marlin:

As others have said Joe almost everybody shoots their mouth off in the politics section,with the warning before entering the politics section I thought it was the normal thing to do

Of course its your call but I wanted to voice my opinion that it wasn't fair considering everybody does it and in that particular incident insider was not the one who started it .Happy trading everyone

Your back up, and I put a ban on this JB account. Just keep it clean, if that guy comes back harassing you, just send me an email.

IShopAtPublix · Sep 6, 2009

Quote from Joe:

i'd be willing to put his account back if he agreed to back off his language use.

You should keep this in mind, in the P&R forum, there are like 20 people like lucrum, aaainthebeltway, dr jerkulus, mercor, and an assortment of various buffoons to a person like me or insider trading.

If the "ecosystem" of P&R is to be maintained, you should not be banning people like insider trading on a permanent basis people for simple cursing.

Joe · Sep 6, 2009

Quote from IShopAtPublix:

You should keep this in mind, in the P&R forum, there are like 20 people like lucrum, aaainthebeltway, dr jerkulus, mercor, and an assortment of various buffoons to a person like me or insider trading.

If the "ecosystem" of P&R is to be maintained, you should not be banning people like insider trading on a permanent basis people for simple cursing.

It's not cursing, its attacking another member. When that happens I get interested. I don't care if you say "I had a sh*** day" but when you go out and start ragging on other members, cursing them out, especially if its habitual towards the same person then I get involved.

TraderZones · Sep 6, 2009

Quote from monty21:

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P/R should not exist anyhow.. forum is a joke and irrelevant to trading. But it provides points to the website because people spent time discussing nonsense.

Creating a topic area like P&R helps to keep it off other threads.

It is more incorrect for one person to decide that certain topic areas should not be on ET. And having various topic areas help attract and keep individuals here.

You don't want to read it, then don't read it.

monty21 · Sep 6, 2009

Quote from TraderZones:

Creating a topic area like P&R helps to keep it off other threads.

It is more incorrect for one person to decide that certain topic areas should not be on ET. And having various topic areas help attract and keep individuals here.

You don't want to read it, then don't read it.

What does religion have to do with trading?

And politics, such as potential legislation, should stay in Wall Street News or Economics.

Landis82 · Sep 6, 2009

Quote from monty21:

What does religion have to do with trading?

Exactly!

There is absolutely NO LOGICAL reason whatsoever to even have such a Forum on a TRADING website.

The fact that it is allowed by ET and it's management goes a long way to explaining that the priority of this website is about generating "web-hits" and web-activity to show to current and potential advertisers . . . quality of content regarding the financial markets . . . be damned.

If ET and Baron were really serious about maintaining a higher quality of content that had to do with the MARKETS & TRADING, the "Politics & Religion" forum wouldn't even exist.

The fact that it is still here ( no matter how many "pissing-matches" it creates for the Mods to intervene in ) speaks VOLUMES, in my opinion.

Landis82 · Sep 6, 2009

Quote from monty21:

There's a lot of garbage and nonsense in the Politics/Religion forum... so he shouldn't of been banned.

ET would be better if it totally removed the politics/religion forum because it is irrelevant to trading. Any good political related information could be substituted in the Wall Street News/Economics forums.

Maybe ET gets more hits with the P/R forum because people spend a lot of time there... insider included. But P/R should not exist to prevent these dumb sensitivities.

Agreed 100%