Arborbridge wrote:Raptor wrote:Moderator Message:
Although applicable to HYP Utilities this is a general untilities post and should be on a different forum. Will leave a shadow on Practical. Raptor.
This is a piece of moderation I can't get my head around. Why does a "general utilities post"
not have relevance to the practical application of HYP. ...
I don't have any difficulty getting my head around it. Here's how:
Practically everything is interconnected with practically every investment in some way or other, some more major than others, but very few with no interconnection at all. That makes practically everything relevant to just about every investment board's topic - which in turn means that "is this relevant to the board's topic?" isn't a very good test for whether a thread belongs on a board - not unless the site owners and moderators want a site full of "anything goes" boards, with discussions fragmented between them, users looking for a discussion on a particular subject having to guess where it might be, etc.
Instead, I think the moderators try to apply a "where does this discussion
best fit topic-wise?" test - and may well take into account which direction the discussion is going in. And I can very easily see why Raptor felt that the answer was
not the HYP Practical board - nothing that has been said here so far is any more relevant to practical decisions about HYPs than to practical decisions about any other type of portfolio that contains utility shares, and indeed the
only uses of the words "HYP", "HYPer", etc, in it so far are in stuff discussing the moderation decision, not stuff discussing the Corbyn threats to utility companies... Given that, why on earth should the thread be hidden away from investors who have rejected the HYP approach but use some other approach - e.g. a 'Value' approach that primarily aims to sell for a capital gains after typical holding periods of a few months to a few years?
Not saying that I think this is the best board to have moved the thread
to, by the way - I can think of at least two other plausible candidates offhand, and I'd have a hard job choosing between those three (and there may well be others I haven't thought of). I'd guess the same goes for the moderators, and that they'll therefore give the board a thread is currently on the benefit of the doubt when they see a realistic doubt. But not when they don't...
Or in short, I think there's a price posters need to pay to keep a thread on the HYP Practical board: they need to say a reasonable amount that is
specific to practical decisions about HYPs. If they don't, i.e. everything or nearly everything they say is relevant more generally, they shouldn't be surprised if the thread is moved to a more general board...
Gengulphus