[QUOTE=“Pipstradamus;534195”]
I can definitely understand your position, but you’ve been here since April of 2013. We’ve been dealing with situations just like this since 2006. Our moderators know a thing or two about how users interact with each other and they know we have policies in place to create an environment for learning and discussion. And the community, even new members, know when someone’s behavior is unacceptable.
When multiple complaints come in about your aggressive activity on this forum, not just from Horlique2, it says something about your “contributions”. We’re happy that you’re helping us weed out the bad members and snake oil salesmen. It’s one of the primary reasons we started the website. But it’s the aggression that we have a problem with.
Regarding Horlique2, he’s been given multiple infractions in the past, and his profile/visitor messages have been updated to reflect our policy. If he is in fact peddling his services, and we’ve given him notice about his behavior, and he still continues, then he won’t be here much longer.
That’s when we rely on members to use the report post feature. We’ve been pretty clear that this feature is the best way to get us to review a member and his/her activity. Thread battles and flame wars never end as expected.
Regarding your actions on Horlique2’s thread, we’re not against members referencing other members’ content. We’re not even against you trying to show whether a system performs or not, or if it’s utter crap. Your posts were deemed aggressive and harassing; hence my request for you to stop posting on that thread and referencing the same material. Had you simply posted your results and constructive feedback, we wouldn’t be here.
Regarding your assertion that “we protect commercial members” such as Harlique2 for our own gain, we’ll that makes no sense at all. We’ve had a handful of situations just like this in the past, very public, and almost always all parties involved end up leaving the website forever. Even members with honorary member status. That actually hurts us in the long run. Sure we might get a small surge in pageviews initially, but members and visitors are turned off by bickering and aggression and disrespect, and they too leave. And knowledgeable and active members/traders are always hard to replace. Plus, members tend to leave the website when situations like this (where there’s even just a hint of some commercial deal in place to make us millions of dollars) get drawn out and no action is taken. So there is a reason to make sure we get the scammers and peddlers out of here. But for us, if there’s some perceived value by even a minority of members regarding the offerings of this member, we let them decide whether they want to give up their attention and time to follow this member (as long as the member is following our policy).
Now that fact you’ve gotten sarcastic in this thread and said you’d basically do whatever you want to do, shows that you probably don’t care what I or our policy, or any other member as to say, and that’s fine. I or our moderators can’t change that. But we will enforce our policies. We’ve always made it clear that we expect respectful discussion, even when one of the parties involved might be a scammer or someone selling his snake oil. We’re pretty flexible most of the time, and often late to the game in certain situations, but when needed, we do step in. This is one such case.
As I’ve requested, please stop posting to Horlique2’s thread and referencing his posts to yours. If we receive complaints about Horlique2’s activity on the forums, we’ll take action just the same.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Pipstradamus[/QUOTE]
No… You caved in to a bunch of people who have less then 10 posts who reported me based on Horliques prodding… If you had taken the time to actually read my posts in Horliques thread you would have clearly seen the context… Quite frankly I don’t even think you had even opened Horliques profile to see the blatant advertising… Yet you “viewed” my profile (I can see that you did on my profile")…
It’s weird that he has “several infractions” … A warning … Then an infraction… Then the ban… thats process isn’t it? Why would he be given “several infractions”…?
I have been here longer then a year and have over 3K posts to this forum. You slap my wrist based on the reaction a commercial member evoked among his following based on me pointing out the rules you posted. Makes sense.
Lastly… I haven’t been posting to Horliques thread since he ignored me… As its impossible for me to… So why do you keep saying that I have continued to post on his thread…?
there is nothing there of any substance now. The forum is free for the newbs to have fun with their signal providers