RE:Mr. Panick.....JYD,
I agree wiht you on that annoying issue, but there are other reasons why I find it more usueful to participate in Seeking Alpha. They really have a much better system than yahoo or stockhouse. For starters if I write a Seeking Alpha article I typically make about $70 including page views. Not much, but it's more than nothing for posting here and stockhouse is making money off the traffic my posts generate.
I also find that Seeking Alpha has a a much better distribution system. If you post in Stockhouse it's going to only reach maybe 100 people already following the stock. Seeking Alpha will send it to people following you, people following the stock and people following the sector. If I write a Seeking Alpha article on TAO it's goign to reach a couple thousand peope interested in the sector incuding many that were not following the issue.
Many articles I've written had an immediate impact on trading such as this one which got over 6,000 page views and caused a quiet preferred issue (GNE-PA) to jump 10% the next day on 100X typical trading volume. SA sent the article to 800,000 people interested in dividend ideas and less than 1% of them read it. I would say over a dozen of the articles I've written (about half) have had a noticable impact on trading the next day. It's more work (takes several hours to do a good article) but is just a better way to communicate. For my newsletter (subscribers get advance drafts of upcoming articles) it works well. Paid subscribers have more than doubled over the last 6 months.
Yahoo is a cess pool. Stockhouse is not nearly as bad (despite it's problems). I have also found that Stockhosue has a lot of technical glitches (including their pop up ads). SA reviews comments and will delete abusive ones.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/2846566-a-10-percent-energy-sector-yield-with-low-utility-sector-risk-gne-preferred-stock