Google Finance AAPL Forum - One Sick Troll Has Killed It

[Rick-o]

I used to visit the AAPL forum often, as it had some really intelligent posts about APPL investing, plus breaking news about Apple. Not so these days. It's nothing more than a smoking pile of rubble. What motivates someone to do this? From what I can see, "it" has invested a lot of time and effort to kill the forum.

A paid forum assassin, or what? Just someone who craves attention? I don't know, but whomever "it" is, I'm pissed that the forum is no longer useful. What are your thoughts?

http://finance.google.com/group/google.f...pics?hl=en

[Black Landlord]

Same thing happened to a craigslist forum I used to visit pretty much daily.
Tried to get help from staff but no response whatsoever.

[freeradical]

Remember Usenet? Oddly enough, some of the groups are doing quite well, and with very little spam.

I just checked adobe.photoshop.macintosh - and the group was quite alive...

[bryanus]

actually, i find it hilarious.

wasn't me, though.

[karsen]

Aren't there mods? Some of those comments are so far over the top I find it hard to believe that person was still allowed to post there.

[kj]

Usenet was my favorite internet thing ever, until the profiteers came, then the spammers. Although, I think the last thing I went to was rec.climbing, which seemed to be doing ok (but I don't climb anymore). How do you even get to the Usenet now days? kj.

[kj]

Whoa, just checked that out. There's no explaining that. Maybe you could volunteer to be a mod. I think all the google groups I've belonged to had mods. kj.

[Black Landlord]

karsen wrote:
Aren't there mods? Some of those comments are so far over the top I find it hard to believe that person was still allowed to post there.

I thought it was relatively easy to lose a gmail account due to abuse.
Guess not . . .

[freeradical]

kj wrote:
Usenet was my favorite internet thing ever, until the profiteers came, then the spammers. Although, I think the last thing I went to was rec.climbing, which seemed to be doing ok (but I don't climb anymore). How do you even get to the Usenet now days? kj.

If you want to get on Usenet these days, the best thing to do is to get an account with a usenet server.

I have a pay by download account, so I pay $10 for 25GB of downloads. For my limited use of Usenet, this is perfect. Power users probably want to get an unlimited account where you pay a set fee monthly regardless of how much you download.

[Black Landlord]

"One Sick Troll"-- good name for a band?
Discuss.