Spam

• If you are a Google Finance user, then you more likely than not browse through the discussion forums related to the stock you’re researching. I myself am an avid user and I love sifting through the discussion forums to see what everyone has to say. As with most message boards and forums, there is always a considerable amount of spam coming from stock promoters, irrelevant info, etc. Google turns their back most of the time relying on users to report spam and even then, most posts will stay in the system. 
• However, Google Finance has somehow become the center of racist discussion, and it is upsetting users all over who have had enough of Google’s lack of consideration when it comes to moderating their system. While researching my unstable Apple stock today, I had to deal with the same people using the N word in the title’s of their posts. Google’s algorithm in the message board works as it does on any other system by bumping a thread back to the homepage once someone makes a new comment; good or bad. I have been seeing more comments like the one below consistently popping up from disgruntled members on the Finance pages.

• Google can certainly add in a strip of code to immediately ban post titles that contain slurs to weave out the racism, and they can also get a moderator over to the message boards at least to take care of the blue-chip stocks receiving heavy discussion. It’s become a serious problem and Google needs to clean it up before they have a problem on their hands. The last thing they want is to be accused of allowing it. Digg this to have Google change the algorithm. 

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