[Tams]

the most powerful weapon against an idiot is "ignore".

[Tradewinds]

TL has over 100,000 registered users. My personal opinion is that the 100,000 registered users is a bit misleading. How many members and visitors visit the site in a weeks period? How long do they stay logged in?

If advertising is the goal, then TL should want people to visit often, and stay for a while. What is going to influence people to do that?

I want information quickly. I don't want to read garbage. There may be some people who visit TL for personal drama and conflict, but I'm guessing that most aren't interested in that. But TL could have the best of both worlds, keep the forum the same where people can engage in whatever debate they want to. But allow the owner of a blog to have control over their blog, even delete other members comments.

It's not "Big Brother" because each individual only has control over their blog. Big Brother would be if TL just went around deleting people's post for no good reason. There is a big difference.

[SIUYA]

i apologise tradewinds - I thought you wanted to be able to delete posts from a thread you started as per the heading.....I think the thread is for open discussion, the blog possibly should have other rights which I can understand the blogger can choose to ignore, delete rubbish. But ultimately when it comes to the threads, ignore works, and as its a public form you have to put up with the public.

[Tradewinds]

Originally Posted by SIUYA »

i apologise tradewinds - I thought you wanted to be able to delete posts from a thread you started as per the heading.....I think the thread is for open discussion, the blog possibly should have other rights which I can understand the blogger can choose to ignore, delete rubbish. But ultimately when it comes to the threads, ignore works, and as its a public form you have to put up with the public.

No problem. There was some overlap there as I was sort of working out the ideas. And the title of the thread isn't accurate. I guess I gave the thread a title before I'd worked out all the implications of the issue. Yes, I agree, it can't be called an open and public forum unless people have the freedom to post what they wish to a forum thread, . . . within the rules.

[Tradewinds]

Okay, I guess the owner of a blog can delete comments. duh! I guess I should have looked at the situation more closely. A lot of the focus is on the threads, and even though I have made blog posts, I didn't really pay much attention to what was available. Then after seeing this:

Making High Probability Trades - Traders Laboratory Forums

a couple of times, I started wondering if DbPhoenix had some special "rights" to create what he did. But I guess anyone can structure a blog the way he did. The Blog options allow comments to be moderated before displaying.

Okay, I learned something new.

[MadMarketScientist]

Hi Everyone,

I've looked into this request here are the findings:

First of all, vBulletin, as great as it is for forums is very hard to work with! So please bear with us while we work out you user requests.

Second, the blog area is having some issues (permission, people can't see them, etc) so please refrain using that area. Instead, if you want to post an article, please use the Article area (in main Nav bar)

Third, I've looked into giving people ability to delete comments in articles but as this is a vBulletin limitation, it is not (as far as I know) possible. However, please feel free to report ANY post\comment you don't want and I will diligently follow-up

Fourth, and this goes for the forums as well ... please report posts\issues as we are diligently monitoring the site and can help moving\trimming\cleaning up threads.

thanks!
MMS

[BlowFish]

I'm not sure giving the thread starter the power to delete posts is a goof idea (actually I am sure it is not). Blogs (when they work correctly) are the mechanism for someone to post 'in peace'. Threads are for discussion and giving the thread starter the power of censorship is a recipe for disaster. Common sense posting with firm but fair moderation is all that is required.