Board Etiquette

**Griffin** · 01-09-2007, 12:24 AM

Given some of the recent events of the day it may be worthwhile to have a discussion on board etiquette.

The purpose of the thread is to prevent and minimize some of the nastiness.

There are several categories of things that I see could be beneficial.

1) Limiting who, and what folks can say when the post in other members talk threads, (maybe something like - if you don't have anything nice to say - then don't say anything at all) that would require that folks do not blast other's in their account talk threads.

2) In the day to day talk forum - specific threads to discuss various strategies: (with the understanding that they are restricted to those stratagies and debunking the strategy is not allowed)
- Predominant capital preservation (those that like to sit in the G/F and only move to stocks when the big bull is in town)
- Buy and Hold/Dollar cost averaging
- Continuous minor adjusting strategy (for those that keep a relatively stable allocation but adjust it regularly to meet market conditions)
- Continuous channel surfing (the capital preservation to stocks strategy that most of your top performers use).

These are just examples of some of the measures we could put in place.

**mayday** · 01-09-2007, 12:36 AM

Look for the best in others and give them the best you can give. Be encouraging and not belittling. Live well laugh often and love much.

**mlk_man** · 01-09-2007, 01:35 AM

Originally Posted by Griffin

Given some of the recent events of the day it may be worthwhile to have a discussion on board etiquette.

The purpose of the thread is to prevent and minimize some of the nastiness.

There are several categories of things that I see could be beneficial.

1) Limiting who, and what folks can say when the post in other members talk threads, (maybe something like - if you don't have anything nice to say - then don't say anything at all) that would require that folks do not blast other's in their account talk threads.

So you should be banned now? mlk_man's account talk

How about having too big of a signature?

**tsptalk** · 01-09-2007, 02:30 AM

It's very easy to allow some members to get to you. This is a large community and personality conflicts are inevitable. Unfortunately some do it on purpose knowing they are getting under the skin of others. And some of them are clever enough to know just how far they can take it, hoping that their target will retaliate and be disciplined or banned themselves.

Bottom line, golden rule, whatever you want to call it:

Speak to others the way you'd want other to speak to you.

**tsptalk** · 01-09-2007, 02:34 AM

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