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Not to stir up this thread, but a few comments:
As Admin, I can see who posts reputation, and it wasn't Larry. That said, this feature is being abused and I've gone ahead and disabled the ability for regular members to give negative rep. Some are taking it too seriously and others are using it to hurl insults. We expect communication on this forum to be respectful whether in public forums, private messages, or anonymous comments.
The rules are pretty standard. We got by without them in the past because people were just using good sense.
Kevin was asked repeatedly and purposely ignored the moderators.
I think the right way to do this is if you've written an article off site that would be of interest to others at TMC, you post a link to it along with a brief summary or a quote so readers aren't forced to click through to get the gist. Kevin was posting links the same articles in multiple threads in order to promote his site. So essentially cross posting and spamming, two violations of standard forum etiquette. You may have not seen the full extent since the mods interviened. Compounding that with three or four lines of links to his site in his signature makes things feel even more spammy (as well as an overly long signature).
To be fair, in the beginning I was doing "spamming" as I see it pretty normal in a forum setting, and the links i posted is the thread i started within tmc, not even my site which i stsrted much later. Later on given the notes from mods, I did exercise caution by common sense so it is no longer the case.
However my posts seems caught the gawky eyes of Nigel, who keeps slapping on everything I post, to the point I have to ignore him. Nigel even gave me a bad reputation the last post I did on KNDI and I was like what the heck is that for. I didn't see how he modify my post, which he did all the times so I don't see how I violate the rule again. Here is the post:
KNDI Investment discussion - Page 7
I've thought about this and it is not worthy to continue. Not much fun if I have to think twice what I have to say every time.
I will minimize my participation so peace.
For the record, this is not true:
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Kevin was posting links the same articles in multiple threads in order to promote his site. So essentially cross posting and spamming, two violations of standard forum etiquette."
In the beginning I post links to the tmc thread i started, not my site which did not exist.
I might post link to my site in the right context, a single link but never multiple. Go ahead show everyone how bad I was.
Now that i started the whining, let me flush it out. One more incident is when I included my paid article link from seekingalpha in my post, Nigel even removed that link with the accusation of me getting a few more clicks to earn a few cents. I called that ridiculous and since then it striked the wrong chord and Nigel seems amp up the effort of slapping. That is why I have to ignore him, and refuse to discuss with him one on one unless someone else is involved.