I flagged the "dog with fleas" post because I felt it could be more properly classified as spam rather than anything useful to the forum.

I welcome all perspectives on the board including negative ones. However, spam and ridicule such as this have no place here.

As investors who are anticipating an outcome that is uncertain and in the future, we are all speculators to one extent or another. I thus believe there is a valid place for speculative comments here. If we eliminated all such comments we would have very little to talk about.

I think that we simply need to be more up front about when are we making such speculations and when we are commenting on known facts. Then perhaps worries about censorship would be balanced with worries about unsubstantiated claims, as I think both are valid concerns.

Hysteria