Absolutely, positively no more politics. Under the Tools
section you will see a Blog Rules link which states inflammatory
Religious, Political or Sexual language; maybe that is not clear
enough but consider going forward it says ANY instead of
inflammatory. This is a Trading Community and posts should be
regarding the market (no that doesn't mean you can bash or give
praise to the Government and then parlay it into your market
opinion). Whether they be based on technicals, fundamentals
or just your gut leave the board to trading and stock posts.
If you have some insatiable unrelenting desire to talk politics
with a member, that desires your input, then do it over the PM
system - NOT ON THE TRADING COMMUNITY.
Also if someone posts something you feel is in violation, don't
answer them, get someone from admin. No one here is the post
police so take a deep breath and relax because their post isn't
going to kill you and in the meantime we will take care of it upon
you making us aware or upon seeing it ourselves.
Going forward, if someone is found in violation of the Rules or
doing anything that disrupts the Community we will ban their
ability to post for a very brief amount of time to discuss with
them what they did that we wish they wouldn't. After that
warning, a member can lose their posting privileges although you
will still be able to read posts. Please, Please don't make
us ban anyone!
Personally I have been around this board for a few months as
admin but a few years as a member. This is a great community
with great people. Let us not get distracted by the hot
button topics of the day and continue to work to help each other
better our trading and investing skills.
The problem is that everybody has a different
interpretation as to what is "reasonable." There will always
be those who seek a platform to express their disagreement
(or, far less often, their agreement) with positions of the
govt. These opinions are often inflammatory, and offensive to
others. I agree with Tom that this board should ban all
political comments/tirades, and concentrate solely on
trading/investing.
the thing is, political EVENTS or possible events can influence
market direction -- what might happen if Greece goes bankrupt, if
the FED prints another two trillion dollars, if Congress does this
or that..........................those are valid issues for the
blog I would think. But our OPINIONS about those political
happenings are useless for trading, in fact are bad for
trading. So rants and diatribes and emotional opinions just
have no value here.
Michael -- I agree with you completely -- It's shouldn't be hard
for anyone us to post about the possible market implications of a
political event without expressing our opinions on the politics.
Same for articles written by others that you want to post -- if
they are about the market implications -- then great -- but if they
are political rants, they don't belong here.
Tom -- thanks for your post. This is a great trading community,
and we don't need politics here to mess it up.
As always, your post is sensible and considered. I fully agree
with you. I want to make it quite clear to everyone that my
objection was NOT specifically to the opinion expressed by duesy,
but to the fact that a politically provocative statement was being
made. It doesn't make a difference whether it's left-wing or
right-wing, conservative or liberal or whatever, I simply don't
need to have the opinions of others foisted upon me... I similarly
do not care to know whether anyone here is of the opinion that
Chardonnay is viniculturally superior to Sauvingnon Blanc, or the
other way around!
Information about political events that have an influence on the
markets is a different matter altogether. For me as a European it
is very useful to get an insight from the North American members
here, and perhaps I can from time to time give you guys a bit of
information from Germany that might be helpful.
Politics
Posted by tom on 12th of Feb 2010 at 10:31 pm
People,
Absolutely, positively no more politics. Under the Tools section you will see a Blog Rules link which states inflammatory Religious, Political or Sexual language; maybe that is not clear enough but consider going forward it says ANY instead of inflammatory. This is a Trading Community and posts should be regarding the market (no that doesn't mean you can bash or give praise to the Government and then parlay it into your market opinion). Whether they be based on technicals, fundamentals or just your gut leave the board to trading and stock posts. If you have some insatiable unrelenting desire to talk politics with a member, that desires your input, then do it over the PM system - NOT ON THE TRADING COMMUNITY.
Also if someone posts something you feel is in violation, don't answer them, get someone from admin. No one here is the post police so take a deep breath and relax because their post isn't going to kill you and in the meantime we will take care of it upon you making us aware or upon seeing it ourselves.
Going forward, if someone is found in violation of the Rules or doing anything that disrupts the Community we will ban their ability to post for a very brief amount of time to discuss with them what they did that we wish they wouldn't. After that warning, a member can lose their posting privileges although you will still be able to read posts. Please, Please don't make us ban anyone!
Personally I have been around this board for a few months as admin but a few years as a member. This is a great community with great people. Let us not get distracted by the hot button topics of the day and continue to work to help each other better our trading and investing skills.
Tom, politics is one of
Posted by shang on 14th of Feb 2010 at 03:14 am
Tom, politics is one of the key factors to detemine the direction of market. We should consider to discuss it in a reasonable way. Just my 2 cents.
Politics
Posted by jcmells on 14th of Feb 2010 at 10:07 am
The problem is that everybody has a different interpretation as to what is "reasonable." There will always be those who seek a platform to express their disagreement (or, far less often, their agreement) with positions of the govt. These opinions are often inflammatory, and offensive to others. I agree with Tom that this board should ban all political comments/tirades, and concentrate solely on trading/investing.
the thing is, political EVENTS
Posted by Michael on 14th of Feb 2010 at 10:55 am
the thing is, political EVENTS or possible events can influence market direction -- what might happen if Greece goes bankrupt, if the FED prints another two trillion dollars, if Congress does this or that..........................those are valid issues for the blog I would think. But our OPINIONS about those political happenings are useless for trading, in fact are bad for trading. So rants and diatribes and emotional opinions just have no value here.
Michael -- I agree with
Posted by puma on 14th of Feb 2010 at 04:37 pm
Michael -- I agree with you completely -- It's shouldn't be hard for anyone us to post about the possible market implications of a political event without expressing our opinions on the politics. Same for articles written by others that you want to post -- if they are about the market implications -- then great -- but if they are political rants, they don't belong here.
Tom -- thanks for your post. This is a great trading community, and we don't need politics here to mess it up.
Michael
Posted by isplat on 14th of Feb 2010 at 02:19 pm
As always, your post is sensible and considered. I fully agree with you. I want to make it quite clear to everyone that my objection was NOT specifically to the opinion expressed by duesy, but to the fact that a politically provocative statement was being made. It doesn't make a difference whether it's left-wing or right-wing, conservative or liberal or whatever, I simply don't need to have the opinions of others foisted upon me... I similarly do not care to know whether anyone here is of the opinion that Chardonnay is viniculturally superior to Sauvingnon Blanc, or the other way around!
Information about political events that have an influence on the markets is a different matter altogether. For me as a European it is very useful to get an insight from the North American members here, and perhaps I can from time to time give you guys a bit of information from Germany that might be helpful.
Good trading, everybody!
"opinions expiration week?"
Posted by Palladin on 14th of Feb 2010 at 02:22 pm
"opinions expiration week?"
Palladin
Posted by isplat on 14th of Feb 2010 at 04:33 pm
LOL!!! Great comment!