If this entire situation wasn't so sad i'd be laughing right now, or maybe some of you find it so laughable you should be really crying. Either way, this story has turned out to be a real kicker and just another example of why ALL investors should tread very carefully on these very risky Canadian exchanges. It's really the wild west, where anything goes and governance & oversight are litetally thrown out the window. So why do i say this, well, let me explain......
I was on my merry way last week, on my usual routine for the upcoming weekend, when i got this funny & yet "disturbing" message in my inbox on SH. Which I will share with the whole board below, so you can get the entire context of this sad situation and undertand what's going on.
Hi mrmomo,
RE: Bullboard Post: https://stockhouse.com/companies/bullboard/v.nili/surge-battery-metals-inc?postid=35143947
Abuse Report Number: 202205820
Your post violated our community policy for defamation. This post has been removed and is hidden from public view. You can still review this post at the link above.We encourage you to review the community policy for Defamation and account for it in future posts. Persistent violations may lead to suspension of your posting privileges on the Bullboards.
Optional Moderator Feedback: Consider reposting your viewpoint without using inflammatory claims of criminal action as you did with: these guys are real con artists
Regards,
Community Management Team
Now, let's put this REALLY into context here. I've been a long time member of the SH forum for almost 30 years. YES!!! that's 3 decades folks, you won't find many people like me left on here. And let me tell you, that i've NEVER gotten a statement like that in those 30 wonderful years on here. NOT one single one. So for SH to "sanction" me like this, means that the company, Surge Battery Metals, really f'd up and have gone out of their way, into literal "god mode" for damage control across the boards on all social fourms, trying to save face.
As far as SH goes, it seems obvious that IR/mgmt reads these fourms, especially after that farce they tried to pull. What i found astounding, is that they have the gall to try to censor all negative commentary for sometihng they were responsbile for. I didn't force them or encourage to try to pull a fast one over the heads of investors. No investor did, they, mgmt did that all themselves, hoping it would pass unnoticed, without anyone caring or giving two S's. So now that they've been caught, because some investors actually care and pointed the error of their ways, they're on a rampage to censor ANY bad press, opinion, or commentary in regards to the compay's rep? LMAO, that's really laughable in itself!
So they get caught with their hands in the perverbial cookie jar trying pull the wool over investor's heads AND they're calling foul play & crying like a baby? LOL, i swear folks, you can't make this stuff up. And this debacle get's even sadder my friends, because SH should know better than to accomodate suspect companies like that, by engaging in that type of censorship. Companies which have made questionable decisions should be held accountable, and investors should be free to express their opinions & their dissatisfaction if it is warranted. Which in this case it totally justified & have merited that public backlash.
In the end, my disappoitment here isn't with the company but with SH and the folks who manage it. SH isn't what it used to be decades ago, a credible, free spirited social networking forum where investors could log into not only to keep up to date on current events in the financial markets, but also a place where you could express your opinion (within reason of of course!) without any fears of being punished for expressing those views. Now we all know that SH has been going downhill on many fronts, the quality & credibility of this forum has been deteriorating over the years. Even with all that, i still believed that SH would still have some basic utility for investors. Guess i was wrong even on that. Now SH is as bad as YH or Twitter (pre Musk) in that regard. How far the might have fallen!
I guess SH is more concerned with their clients & adverts than they are with the truth and having a credible forum where investors can interchange their opinions by getting good, decent info where they can make better investment decisions. I guess that really doesn't matter to SH anymore. Just keep THE client happy and make sure they don't lose that advert revenue stream, because i'm pretty sure Surge mgmt threatened to pull theirs IF they didn't censor/block any negative press or posts on their platform.
Now i know this post was very long and layed it on pretty thick, but i think i was justified in my intentions and had every right to do so. So if you guys agree with me here, let your voices be known here not only to dubious companies like Surge, or the exhanges they trade on or forums like SH, but also to other investors, who have no idea what's really going on. Please up vote this post so they get the message!
GLTA