Smooth, thank you for taking the time to be professional and explain.  I have been away for a while so please be patient with me as I do some catching up.  I'm interested in your feedback.  I have been tipped off and really looking at this since this post.

Just like mostly everyone: I hope we can do a little better.  I see the down-vote costs you your voting power and it is sometimes causing the other loosing party a great deal of stress which eventually makes its way full circle and turns into a debate.  The whole process takes time away from all parties involved.  Can we strike a balance that will save everyone time, energy, and value?

Lets consider that we could all benefit by reminding ourselves that we all have ideas for investments that are not easily communicated and require a great deal of research.  It seems simple to me: have some boundaries.  We could be carrot driven and let the market rewards work things out.  Save the stick for fraud, child exploitation, theft or a crime in society.  The rational is: Don’t underestimate how much we don’t know about what the other side is doing.

To really know someone’s intention, or even the truth from a lye, we need to spend some time investigating it and even then we will never get it right completely.  Ultimately some might even opt for a system of discovery and justice; so it gets complicated fast.  In my opinion, respecting boundaries will get us by in the mean time and working together will give us more solid solutions in the long term.  It is just going to take some time and really it helps to keep an open mind to what we don’t know especially if we have other goals and don’t have the time to really research the intentions of the members in another group.