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Hi Bubb, I am still around. I have invested a lot of time on GEI, and will no doubt continue posting here. I am taking a break from posting at the moment.

 

To be frank, I think you need to be careful of "jaw-boning" here. 24 hour bans are hardly a "reign of terror". If you are going to get serious about regulating the site then you should be starting with 1 or 2 week suspensions, then start banning the repeat offenders for good.

 

Edit: I have just increased your warning level. ;)

 

 

 

Thanks for the vote of confidence and the offer. I am not sure if I am interested in actually being a moderator myself, more in seeing some serious moderation taking place. Could I suggest some other posters instead? How about Enrieb, Id5, Ziknik, Littledavesab, AGC? What ever happened to Steve Netwriter?? Now there was a moderator with some gravitas! Why not give Steve free reign to sort the site out? :)

 

You calling me fat? :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

I am still trying to spend MOST of my time doing research.

I also thought it best to not be involved in the MANY discussions on here about this place.

 

I looked at the poll results, and one thing stood out for me.

The split between votes in favour of cdswamp and those against. I think that is probably the prime cause of the disputes on here.

 

My view is this:

1. cdswamp provided some really good information, and some good posts. I even added one to the notable posts thread.

2. He was never willing to conform to the general posting style of this place, neither in quantity, tone or copyright.

 

When posting, I try to consider whether my post will be a positive contribution.

People are obviously different. Some treat forums like a place to play.

 

At the moment I am very much less interested in discussions. I am more into data and formulating ideas.

 

I think DrBubb's tougher approach is a good idea.

I think some posters either need to go, or be forced to behave. The loss of the poor quality posts will be no loss.

 

This is DrBubb's forum. I think everyone who uses it should act as if they have entered someone's home.

IMO when you do that you accept the rules of the house. You don't defecate on the carpet and expect to be welcome, or for your mess to be left there for all to see.

I do not believe in censorship of opinion. I do believe in censorship to enforce good manners and a pleasant atmosphere.

 

I do think that:

1. The mods should be hard on all poor behaviour.

2. The mods should not get into discussion.

3. All navel gazing should stop. The topic is investment etc, not this forum.

 

I think DrBubb is a gentleman, and creates a lot of stuff for others free of charge.

He doesn't have to do that.

If you don't like what is posted, you don't have to reply, or read it. It is not a requirement that you have to disagree with posts. You can just disagree silently.

I find that very difficult when it comes to astrology :lol: <blush>

 

Lastly, has anyone noticed that GoldUS$ got to 1150 ?

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And the first to be banned is...

 

 

 

This language is inappropriate to GEI, and so I am banning DrBubb from posting here for the next 24 hours !

 

(I will continue to operate as a moderator, and post my reason on this thread if I decided to warn or ban anyone.)

 

I will not return to posting until 5pm HK time on Friday. May the sense be with you !

 

 

Your relationship with this site reminds me of my relationship with my eldest son.

 

You bring it into the world and work so hard to nurture and grow it.

 

It becomes a teenager - and assumes a life of it's own - some aspects of it's behavour you hate and sometimes you say stuff you regret :o

 

"Bubbs Trading Diary" should be pinned. I feel that would say more than anything - it's like the parent's home taken over by the teenage sons friends. (a problem i have

 

had) You should not dominate but should have space for the stuff that matters to you most in the front room in your own place.

 

Complicated diciplinary procedures proposed by those who have no intension of paying for the time of those who are supposed to enact them should be ignored, so i guess the

 

least worst thing is mods are gods and you appoint the mods - albeit very imperfect as vividly shown at HPC no forum as far as I know has found a better solution.

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GEI's Reign of Terror - Tigger-happy Mods takeover

I'm frigging tired of receiving PM's like this !

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Watch out, the first 24 hour banning is about to happen - Your could be next ! So watch out, dear member

 

I'm fed up to the fekking back-teeth of receiving PM's like the following one (see below,) And so I am going to initiate a reign of terror on GEI, asking the moderators to start dishing out 24 hour bans, whenever they see fit.

 

Well done Bubb and not before time. Believe me, the silent majority on here are also sick to the back teeth with the half dozen or so posters that continue to disrupt this forum.

 

You have also missed off Nicejim from the list of posters that have left this place. I seem to remember he was also a target for the "troll gang" at one point?

 

Only point at which i disagree with you is on the suspension time.

 

I would have 1 week minimum then escalating to 1 month, 6 months then permanent ban

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Ok girls, put your handbags down for five minutes, grab a cuppa, and see what happens when hyperinflation starts to go mainstream.

 

Enjoy!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33UU6MKuWSE...player_embedded

 

This is all you need to know. All else is spin, noise, distractions, lies, delusions and plain insanity.

 

 

Is it really necessary that anybody who disagrees with this person has to have all this garbage thrown at them while the moderators do sweet FA?

 

Another must read! :lol:

 

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article15143.html

 

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Where are the Deflation Knuckleheads who tended to dominate the web journals last spring and summer, in incredible dense vapid clueless fashion??? What a tremendously misguided group.

 

Dispite a poll showing support for Roman Holiday we have to listen to hyperinflationists calling deflationists misguided knuckleheads dominating with dense clueless misguided blah blah blah. This garbage is constantly going on here.

 

Either allow people to defend themselves by any means necessary or make this a place of polite respectful interaction by ensuring that this kind of unnecessary baiting is prevented

 

Maybe when gold drops the old civility will come back, and old posters will return

 

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Is it really necessary that anybody who disagrees with this person has to have all this garbage thrown at them while the moderators do sweet FA?

 

 

 

Dispite a poll showing support for Roman Holiday we have to listen to hyperinflationists calling deflationists misguided knuckleheads dominating with dense clueless misguided blah blah blah. This garbage is constantly going on here.

 

Either allow people to defend themselves by any means necessary or make this a place of polite respectful interaction by ensuring that this kind of unnecessary baiting is prevented

 

 

Cant you just ignore the posts which afflict you so? Its not a personal attack, I believe. Before I get flamed I will say I am in the deflation until hyperinflation camp. So chill out AK and dont get eaten up by the name calling.

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Cant you just ignore the posts which afflict you so? Its not a personal attack, I believe. Before I get flamed I will say I am in the deflation until hyperinflation camp. So chill out AK and dont get eaten up by the name calling.

 

Obviously they are personal attacks.

 

If people want to be civil they can do so.

 

I dont think I am being so unreasonable.

 

You think i am being unreasonable and i need to chill out.

 

But you were a person who stuck the boot in me.

 

People like me dont like your behaviour. People like me are asking you to change your behaviour so that the board can be a reasonable and civil place to visit.

 

If you or others enjoy being abusive then maybe this is not the board for you or others. And if you dont like my response to you why dont you chill out and relax? And then reflect upon how that feels? Please

 

Essentially there are a group of thugs on this board who seem to think it perfectly ok to kick people they dont agree with.

 

Thats what it is. Thuggery.

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Have I overreacted towards fitkid?

Gf that is a total joke i even coloured the word. alk used abslute uncovered obsenities the other day and didnt get banned.What sort of moderation is that you could have at least warned that colouring four letter words was not going to be acceptable.

what a joke.

I almost banned AAK yesterday, but that was before Bubb started his terror reign. I think you overreacted towards Aardvark, even if it was on your on thread.

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Ok girls, put your handbags down for five minutes, grab a cuppa, and see what happens when hyperinflation starts to go mainstream.

 

Enjoy!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33UU6MKuWSE...player_embedded

 

nice to see you posting Pluto.

 

can I ask you what your current advice on holding physical silver please ? are you in the Ted Butler camp ?

 

edit - that video & others I have watched are indeed very worrying. The police are supposed to be there to protect the public, generally speaking they now see the public as the enemy & visa-versa & will act accordingly as per policy guidelines. TPTB have everything setup perfect now, just as they wanted.

 

Where are the union representatives to discuss between students & police........oh yes, they have all been bought out or forced out. Do the police not talk anymore, do they just act as a non-speaking barrier to society now ?

 

very worrying & extremely sad imo. We are starting to look no different to 3rd countries in a lot of ways. Dictatorships everywhere. :(

 

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Have I overreacted towards fitkid?

I almost banned AAK yesterday, but that was before Bubb started his terror reign. I think you overreacted towards Aardvark, even if it was on your on thread.

 

AAK was lucky. He deserve a brief time in the cooler, and escaped.

But that will happen sometimes. No one here is perfect, or has unlimited time for these useless dramas

 

maybe the genuine threat of being banned was enough for him to think twice about his postings.

 

I have to say, there were a few times I DID feel frustrated in not posting here.

 

And the "Tigger", rather than "Trigger" miss-spelling actually turned out being humorous

 

pooh_tigger_catching_bee.jpg

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you the top jailer now Bubb ?

edited - sorry I missed the 'Dr' bit out, I know that's important to you.

 

LOL.

Do you know how close you came to getting suspended for that oversight, GOM?

 

I spent some time in that cooler, so i know what it feels like. I brought my ball and baseball mit.

 

greatescape460.jpg

The Cooler King:

Hilts makes good his escape, acquiring Wehrmacht uniform and motorbike and heading for the Swiss border. His command of German, which earlier he claimed to have when speaking to the camp Commandant, deserts him at a vital moment, and he is pursued cross-country by checkpoint troops. Rapidly divesting himself of the uniform (which could get him shot as a spy if captured), he continues his efforts to cross the border on his bike. This culminates in the scene where, cornered by increasing numbers of German troops, he attempts to jump the double fences of the border: he clears one successfully, but is brought down by enemy fire before he can attempt the second.

 

Hilts is returned to the prison camp, where he learns of the fate of the other escapers, and of the Commandant. As he is escorted yet again to the cooler, Goff throws him a baseball mitt and ball; indomitable to the end, Hilts concludes the film by incessantly bouncing the ball off the walls of his cell.

 

/see: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0008057/bio

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Obviously they are personal attacks.

You are actually talking about a quote from the article, so it can't be described as a personal attack.

 

To quote the whole paragraph for you;

 

Where are the Deflation Knuckleheads who tended to dominate the web journals last spring and summer, in incredible dense vapid clueless fashion??? What a tremendously misguided group. They follow religiously the deteriorating economies, miss the twin storm, ignore the power of the unprecedented monetary inflation, and somehow overlook the entire global movement if not revolt against the USDollar in a grand Paradigm Shift. They represent the worst economists in the alternative media on web journals. Their tunnel vision on the falling asset price effect left them vulnerable to missing a tsunami on their own doorstep, incredibly. They still do not offer an explanation of why crude is at the $80 price level again. Supplies of oil are nowhere as great as the false USGovt statistics indicate, but the entire world is hedging at the same time against the US$ with oil assets.

 

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article15143.html

 

 

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I'm B-a-a-a-ck!

It was a good break. Did you behave?

 

 

 

We behaved. More or less. Good to have you back. How's the view from Hong Kong? I'm cautiously back into shorts - well, in yesterday and out by nightfall so as not to repeat earlier mistakes. Just can't shake the feeling that we're due a shudder and not simply an uninterrupted run to hyper-inflation!

 

On this thread to note: I think you are right to be a bit more trigger happy. There really isn't time in my life to wade through lots of posts with people trying to score points on one another endlessly. I prefer a gentlemanly debate. I try to admit my own errors - so that others are free to admit theirs and we don't end up arguing the whole time!

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Obviously they are personal attacks.

 

If people want to be civil they can do so.

 

I dont think I am being so unreasonable.

 

You think i am being unreasonable and i need to chill out.

 

But you were a person who stuck the boot in me.

 

People like me dont like your behaviour. People like me are asking you to change your behaviour so that the board can be a reasonable and civil place to visit.

 

If you or others enjoy being abusive then maybe this is not the board for you or others. And if you dont like my response to you why dont you chill out and relax? And then reflect upon how that feels? Please

 

Essentially there are a group of thugs on this board who seem to think it perfectly ok to kick people they dont agree with.

 

Thats what it is. Thuggery.

 

 

Terribly sorry old chap! I think you have a bit of a 'persecute me complex' you need to get seen to.

 

Dont worry about this-

 

'People like me dont like your behaviour. People like me are asking you to change your behaviour so that the board can be a reasonable and civil place to visit.

 

...I dont think there are people like you on this board. So you can skip the complicity.

 

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Obviously they are personal attacks.

 

Hey ALK I have noticed at times your "disputes" with other GEI members

 

It may be fair to say its not one sided.

 

But can I just say to both sides that getting agitated and loosing it doesnt help.

 

+ a reminder to one and all, that no one on GEI thinks that the world is a balanced place and we are all living in Shangri-La (if anyone does then maybe they would like to start a thread!). That might be the opinion of others outside GEI. Remember who you are criticising. Nuff respect!

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Where are the Deflation Knuckleheads who tended to dominate the web journals last spring and summer, in incredible dense vapid clueless fashion??? What a tremendously misguided group. They follow religiously the deteriorating economies, miss the twin storm, ignore the power of the unprecedented monetary inflation, and somehow overlook the entire global movement if not revolt against the USDollar in a grand Paradigm Shift. They represent the worst economists in the alternative media on web journals. Their tunnel vision on the falling asset price effect left them vulnerable to missing a tsunami on their own doorstep, incredibly. They still do not offer an explanation of why crude is at the $80 price level again. Supplies of oil are nowhere as great as the false USGovt statistics indicate, but the entire world is hedging at the same time against the US$ with oil assets.

 

Ah..missed that quote and the whole debate, what topic was this on?

Being a Deflation Knuckhead myself I would have liked to comment on this.

 

 

 

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Terribly sorry old chap! I think you have a bit of a 'persecute me complex' you need to get seen to.

 

Dont worry about this-

 

'People like me dont like your behaviour. People like me are asking you to change your behaviour so that the board can be a reasonable and civil place to visit.

 

...I dont think there are people like you on this board. So you can skip the complicity.

 

 

Hopefully you will say this sort of thing to a person from japan and they will teach you the lessons of life that you have so far not learnt.

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Mixed feeling about this 24 hour ban strategy - as currently implemented.

 

I believe I was first to suggest a zero tolerance 48 hr ban approach, to draw a line under the feckless noise on the site

http://www.greenenergyinvestors.com/index....mp;#entry141277

 

- But giving warnings is not zero tolerance

 

- 24hr bans are mere wrist slaps, and 48hrs (or even 1 week) will probably be needed

 

- delete offending posts instantly

 

- (most critically) don't discuss the offences in public, just apply a ban! Don't even PM offenders - but certainly explain (via PMs not in public) if people wish to discuss. Indeed, complaining about a ban in public should also be a reason to ban

 

Hence, all that site users will see is good quality, respectful postings. This may cause us to loose some or many current users (but they're probably the ones we need to loose!), and they'll soon be replaced by new voices attracted by the pleasant and welcoming environment they'll see here (as opposed to the debacle they are currently witnessing on many threads)

 

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