Your site’s mission is to build a community where people can learn to trade. his misinformation is a pollution to the forum. He is combative towards everyone. Pretty much every senior/seasoned options trader here has him on block or vice versa.
Banning doesn't work as anybody can come back under another alias. Ignore function works well for me. What might improve the forum could be a "Wall of shame". Like you have the Hall of Fame threads, a "Wall of shame threads", maybe voted in by a selected senior group, might improve the forum content
Blocking/ignore doesn't work because when someone spams/pollutes a thread, you can't make sense of the responses. There are too many orphaned posts in the thread.
As exemplary, under the following thread everybody can study and convince yourself who here is spreading BS: it's this @newwurldmn, b/c I dared to question his wrong view, as he does not even know the most elementary thing in options trading: the payoff function. Since then he in his postings spreads nothing but hate against me (is that any acceptable behaviour?) : https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/formulas-for-payoff-at-expiry.378712/#post-5939381
The thread was about congratulating Alex Jacobson, but then you changed the topic of the thread to your own ends to abuse another member. This is just one of many posts. This is clearly against Rule 3 as outlined in the "Terms of Service and Rules" of the Forum. " By posting information in any chat room, message board, ratings system or other interactive service that may be available to you through this site, you are not to upload, post, or otherwise distribute or facilitate distribution of any content -- including text, communications, software, images, sounds, data, or other information -- that: is insulting or argumentitive without merit, unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another's privacy, tortious, contains explicit or graphic descriptions or accounts of sexual acts (including but not limited to sexual language of a violent or threatening nature directed at another individual or group of individuals), uses vulgar language in the creation of a user name or otherwise violates Elite Trader's rules or policies or these Rules of User Conduct; victimizes, harasses, degrades, or intimidates an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability; " https://www.elitetrader.com/et/help/terms Just let others post their own threads instead of trying to take over, and just leave other people alone.
@Adam777, my posting is innocent as it's on-topic and tells nothing but the truth. I'm the first who hates off-topic postings (see my profile). You have to blame the other off-topic postings that followed. You have to analyse the chain in the thread to find who started the insulting. It's not in my nature to insult anybody. BUT: I have to react similarily if I get insulted, I find this only fair. He who acts disrespectful and insulting cannot expect to get treated respectful.