I am willing to bet that many of the marketsurfer gonzo hate vibers are really aliases of the same person on a search and destroy mission. If marketsurfer bothers them so much, why not just put him on ignore? Problem solved but rather they seem to exist to throw stones from the sidelines.
Back to the Market Surfer Limited (MSL Troll Brand) allegations, there is that old saying, if every one in the room is an asshole then its you who is the asshole. But this is new, I have never seen a case of "there are so many assholes I have to rationalize and fantasize that they are infact all one person, who is out to get me." As for blocking you, this single person with a single alias does not view you in such a low manner that he has no time of day for you, no matter how many times you accuse him of being every single person who has ever bothered you online, I think long term with a bit of push, you can make a full recovery.
My real name would require a reduction in rank. Lou Tenant But seriously, I doubt I would use my full name here without some serious restrictions on who could, and could not use the site. George Soon to be Jorge, so I'll fit into the New World Order.
There is a lot of junk to sift through to get to good posts but a decent fraction of good posts I think would be unlikely to be made if they had to reveal their name. Look at the recent posts from hft about how high freq trading works. I think his golden handcuffs would make it impossible for him to post with his real name.
I wonder if Seeking Alpha had a troll/stupid arguing/spam problem before they got big enough to have what I assume is paid moderation? I'm guessing by now they've cleaned the clock of non-moderated sites that used to be really popular - sites like Yahoo Finance message boards. I haven't been around ET long enough to have a solution for what ails it, but I heartily recommend the 'ignore' button. I doubt I'm missing much when the trolls/troublemakers decide to post the occasional non-inflammatory message.
Let me clarify again what I'm proposing here. Some of you guys are acting like it's an either or proposition. You can still post to the old ET all you want. That would not change. You would simply have an additional place to post if you so choose. In fact, it doesn't even need to be even a new site. Although if Baron wants to brand it he might want to do that. He could simply just create a category that says ET Pro on the main site. It would have it's own user and password to get in there and the messages would be invisible to the regular ET. Again, it is in "addition" to the current site. So for those of you making all these excuses that this won't work or that won't work, you can keep everything exactly the way that it is. You simply won't have access to ET Pro. I honestly don't know why this is so controversial.
Good lord!, Josef K , what a bright and articulate person you are! Post more, will you please. We need you on ET.