ASF Moderation

[professor_frink]

Fair enough Professor,

I have read your posts, you seem like a pretty switched on trader
and you have shared some great ideas. Why don't you simply ignore
Battman/Brontes post and keep contributing.

I still don't get what antics are so repulsive it causes traders to
leave. I talk to traders and investors all the time and most of them are
golfers and fishermen that makes them the biggest exaggerators on the planet
doesn't upset me.

Thanks iSPI. Appreciate it.

From my point of view, posting in web forums like this is something to entertain myself during the day if I don't have a trade on. It's always good to have contact with other people who do what I do(I only know 1 person in real life that trades), but if it annoys me, then I won't post.

Battman generally avoids direct questions about his trading, which means I don't find anything of use in his posts, and most of the other people that have contributed in the past have left, so there isn't much interest there for me at the moment.

 

[wayneL]

This latest post from you seems a little out of character.
For someone who usually tells it like it is it sounds a bit
Boo Hoo us poor moderators we have a hard job
especially those of us who contribute as well.

You guys are like referees, no you won't please everyone
yes you will make mistakes (and deleting 2000 posts was a ripper
*Please note I said that very much tongue in cheek
none of those posts were mine *

However !
If being consistently fair and impartial is too hard, if having your decision questioned seems like you are being victimised then
Can't stand the heat ? Get out of the Kitchen!

iSPI,

See, even diplomacy desn't work! ROFL

The point of my post was not to complain.

It was to point out that we are human too. We are tryng hard, learning as we go along......

......and developing very thick skins

You liken us to referees... well... yes! And who's the person on the footy field who doesn't have a clue, is biased toward the other team, lost the match for us etc.... the ref!

Don't expect perfection.

 

[iSPI]

ISPI, your comments are fine and I've not said anything about me being personally attacked. Keep it coming. Remember, I started this thread by splitting off the first post. I knew that in doing so, I was opening myself up to a thread of flack. I'm a big boy and can live with that (your comparison to umpires is quite apt as I happen to be one - so copping a bit is nothing new) as long as people continue to show the level of maturity they have so far in this thread.

All I was saying is that I stand by my actions and would do the same again.

Absolutely, I apologise for not acknowledging that (starting the thread)earlier.

Big thumbs up for that and standing by your actions

 

[iSPI]

iSPI,

See, even diplomacy desn't work! ROFL
The point of my post was not to complain.
It was to point out that we are human too. We are tryng hard, learning as we go along......
......and developing very thick skins

You liken us to referees... well... yes! And who's the person on the footy field who doesn't have a clue, is biased toward the other team, lost the match for us etc.... the ref!
Don't expect perfection.

Snicker doesn't sound to hard to me !

I won't expect perfection , as long as you don't expect to please everyone.

Hey DrJ ... good on you for being an umpire (as you mentioned earlier)
don't no what you umpire in or at what level but I have a great deal
of respect for umpires and I mean that sincerely sports is lost without you... moderators well different story

 

[wayneL]

Time for a group hug?

 

[Bronte]

Battman is happy to meet doctorj to give him a hug
This is my fourth attempt at this post.....
Someone keeps deleting them.
Send me a PM doctorj

 

[iSPI]

Time for a group hug?

wellllllllll ok.... everyone give your monitor a big squeeze

 

[Bronte]

We are pleased to have you back Wayne

 

[Bronte]

Doctor I think you would have been better sending this as a PM to Bronte.
If you differed in opinion, posting on a public thread looks like flaming to me
heck now I'm doing it
I don't see your post as encouraging people to share ideas or fostering a positive environment. There a lot of lookers on the Trading the SPI thread most likely because they are too nervous to say anything.

Bud's posts flew pretty close to the edge and I understand why they were pulled however Trading the SPI looks like it turns into a bag Bronte and seems to me some of them should have pulled as well.

I haven't learned anything from Bronte's posts (no offence Bronte)
however Sails said she found them of interest and I have seen others
asking questions and getting snippets of info so just becauseYOU find novalue in 99.99% doesn't give you the right to imply her posts are of no value.

I don't know how someone becomes a moderator for ASF
but you ladies and gents need to make sure if you are going to
do the job be fair impartial and leave personal opinion out it.

No offence taken iSPI
The first 2000 were better.

 

[Bronte]

Ditto, don't remember seeing any post saying "heres what I did last week"
or "I'm awesome" by anyone in the Trading the Spi thread.

I could be wrong but from what I can gather the thread Trading the SPI
was never started as "heres my trades live" nor "heres my trading system"

Bronte I congratulate you on how you always welcome new comers
to the thread. You foster a environment that encourages new comers and have been respectful of others which ASF is about.

Maybe Joe should make you the moderator !!

There is plenty to be learned from hindsight, if I had not reviewed my trades
I would have crashed and burned looooooooooong ago.
Of course reviewing you own trades is alot easier then trying to reverse engineer a trade from a couple of figures and a basic bar chart with a couple of lines on it.

Re the live trade issue Bronte has done live trades and should not be feel obliged to do all trades or in fact any further trades live just recently
Bronte made the call of 19th of Sept before the day was established.

I actually did it the day before !! I'm awesome

Funny, nobody said.... how did you do that?

Thank you for your support iSPI and of course Margaret.

 

[Bronte]

Battman is happy to meet doctorj to give him a hug
This is my fourth attempt at this post.....
Someone keeps deleting them.
Send me a PM doctorj

Why do you keep deleting my posts?

 

[doctorj]

Why do you keep deleting my posts?

Because you keep posting off-topic.

 

[Sean K]

Because you keep posting off-topic.

I think the PM facility and chat area needs to be more liberally used to cope with this.

 

[Smurf1976]

I think the PM facility and chat area needs to be more liberally used to cope with this.

Or just start another thread on whatever it is you wish to discuss.

If a thread on stock XYZ turns into a discussion about who's going to win the AFL Grand Fianl then, rather than deleting posts or otherwise upsetting anyone, just start a thread on AFL football and move the posts there. That way everyone should be happy.

Obviously this doesn't apply in cases of personal abuse etc. Such posts ought to be removed from the relevant thread(s).

 

[Joe Blow]

Sorry about getting into this thread so late but I have been at a get together all afternoon and evening and have just come across this thread now.

Firstly let me just say that moderating a forum is a difficult, thankless job. It is a volunteer position and is taken on by those who care about the site enough to want to help maintain a certain level of order and civility. It doesn't make their jobs easier that they are also participants in the discussions. In any large community you are always going to have situations where people do not agree with the decision of a moderator. It only natural. I happen to think that our moderators here at ASF are extremely even handed considering how emotional some threads get. The umpires decision doesn't always go your way and talk about "consistency" of moderation is pointless when you have many differing points of view and ideas of what is "consistent" and what isn't. Sometimes you've just got to cop the decision on the chin and move on. It's a reality of forum life and will happen to everyone from time to time.

I think there is better moderation on this site than most forums and unfortunately a lot of their work goes unseen and largely unappreciated. Spam threads are deleted, threads are merged, split, renamed or moved from one forum to another. None of us sit around waiting for forum drama. Personally I dread it and I'm sure the moderators do too. We do out best to stop it from happpening in the first place but unfortunately it is inevitable.

The best way to help out the moderators is by treating other ASF members with politeness and respect whether you agree with them or not. Then there would be fewer fights for them to break up in the first place. And in the end it really isn't worth getting all worked up over an argument with someone on an internet forum.

 

[iSPI]

Sorry about getting into this thread so late but I have been at a get together all afternoon and evening and have just come across this thread now.

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Too late Joe we already had a group hug !

 

[Joe Blow]

Too late Joe we already had a group hug !

I have been at a bachelor party so I've already had my male bonding experience for the day. Count me in for the next group hug though.

I have also had a bit to drink. That last post took me an hour to type out. LOL! :alcohol:

 

[Bronte]

Battman is happy to meet doctorj to give him a hug
This is my fourth attempt at this post.....
Someone keeps deleting them.
Send me a PM doctorj

Hi Joe,
Welcome back.
No PM as yet.

 

[Joe Blow]

Hi Joe,
Welcome back.
No PM as yet.

Why does doctorj need to PM you?

 

[Bronte]

Battman asked where doctorj lived in Perth
doctorj said he wouldn't post that sort of information...fair enough
We said North or South...PM us
Did he want to meet up on behalf of ASF/Joe
No reply...just kept deleting our posts
We assume he doesn't. No problem.