Re: read
posted on
Jul 06, 2010 09:25AM
Dear pappythom.
Thank you for your messages and your understanding. As we are sure you are aware, AGORACOM does not provide any Investor Relations Services to Patriot Scientific, nor do we do any work on behalf of the company in terms of Marketing, Online Advertising or Communications.
This HUB here is one of over 2000 Shareholder Communities; a paradigm shifting model we first introduced in the fall of 2007. Since that date AGORACOM has reached over 3 million investors, who visited over 150 million pages of information on our site.
This is quite an achievement as our model does not depend on pageviews to be successful; as you are fully aware we don't flip ad's on your Community's space. Further to this, and inspite the fact that we do not generate any revenue from INVESTORS (in the form of a subscription charge, premium accounts etc.), being selected as a Profit 100 company in Canada, speaks volumes about both our business model's success, and our Wiki models popularity amongst the investment Community.
Is our model perfect? Of course not; but that's only because there cannot be an absolute perfect in anything.
The reason now, that we are taking such a tough stance on enforcing our six rules of use, is a reaction to the many, many complaints we have received regarding personal statements with the intent of infuriating a particular poster or group of posters over the past week.
We invited you all, to calmly set aside your personal grievances; or at the very least, discuss them via private messages.
Upon careful consideration of the recent events unfolding on the forum, we have had a very hard time dealing with the personal issues amongst a very small group of participants within this forum. While we take pride and appreciate the unique nature of this forum, we find that what applies to 2000 other shareholder communities on AGORACOM is having a difficult time applying here.
Quite simply, the amount of personal conflict has become overwhelming. Though we are prepared for the fact that personal issues can and do break out on occasion, they are now becoming perpetual on this HUB.
It's obvious that one side cannot convince the other of their opinions, nor can we possibly mediate each personal conflict to determine who is right and wrong.What is clear, however, is that no matter what side of the equation you are on, all personal conflicts inevitably lead the forum into to an accelerating stream of emotional posts, instead of informative insights on the company's activities.
Bickering, Profanity, Name Calling, Accusations, Repetition, Posting any statements or issues that cannot be substantiated in any factual or tangible means and Off Topic personal messages on the Main Discussion board.
You can disagree in your analysis of various company, industry, area issues - just don't make it personal. It is the personal stuff we are looking to get rid of.
If you can follow this simple advice, the board should get back to being the best place on the web for Patriot information, opinion and analysis.
Thank you pappythom and everyone else for your contributions to the Community and for your understanding.
Kind Regards,
AGORACOM