Like stock777 said, quality content wins in the end, or at least it should. I see Matt Cutts has gone.
Of course they stopped. I banned them both. I banned Lucrum too. Trust me, the axe has been dropping like you wouldn't believe the past couple of weeks.
It's been 10 years for me since I signed up to ET an have noticed the same thing. The PNL thread used to have 20+ daily posters in it, now it has none. I feel allot of the conversations that used to happen here have now migrated to places like Twitter and Stocktwits. I'll tell you one thing, the business of being an "Educator" is booming! Almost every big person on twitter is trying to sell you on their chat room or some kind of alert service.
Perhaps we could elect judges for future such [banning] matters? I vote for murray turtle, Redneck, NoDoji, Maverick, sellindexvol66 and OddTrader to be ET's supreme court judges, with Baron as Chief Justice. Things are pretty fair as is... at the moment, but absolute power eventually corrupts.
when vol comes back, your servers will be running hard..both are inevitable. at least convexx/DP, etc etc had trading content mixed in with the crazy.
Honestly Baron, Lucrum did not deserve to be banned, he was getting personal threats, and having his wife threatened by some kind of online stalker, I find it highly unfair that he gets thrown out with a guy who was calling his work to get him fired. It is clear that Convexx was a psychopath as other people have made the same claim, he merely tried to point it out to you that you had a full on sociopath here. Lucrum was one of your highest, posting longest standing members, from a purely financial standpoint, it doesnt make sense to ban him. Obviously its your site, so its your choice, but imo he should be allowed back.