I was just confused by the wording of this web page:
https://investorshangout.com/termsandcondition
Specifically these sections:
Memberships
Investors Hangout offers two main types of memberships:
1. Free memberships. Users have up to 5 posts per day and 5 private messages per day. When a user decides they would like more than 5 posts per day they can upgrade to premium.
2. Premium memberships. This is our most popular membership. Premium users have unlimited use of the site. Unlimited posts, Private messages and many other extra features and options. The premium membership costs 9.99 per month.
3. IRP or Investor Relations Professional memberships . These users are promoters to bring awareness to certain stocks. Premium members can upgrade to IRP status at no extra charge. For more on IRP's please read section (7)
and this:
7. Professional & IRP Members
"Investor Hangout" IRP members or Investor relations professionals are the pivotal link between their organization and the outside world. They are a key corporate resource, disseminating information to shareholders, financial professionals, and potential investors about their company's competencies, competitive advantages, strengths, weaknesses, strategies, vision and mission -- the objective being to ensure that the company will be accurately valued in the marketplace.
Investors Hangout requires all professional members to declare their status and maintain an IRP membership status while involved in any Investors relations organization, Investors Hangout cannot guarantee that all will do this. The absence of an IRP Disclosure/Disclaimer should not be construed to indicate the poster is not subject to Section 17(b) of the Securities Act of 1933. Investors Hangout does not watch or track any promotional activity engaged in by IRPs or members and we are not party to their promotion agreements. Our IRP subscription fees of 24.99 are assessed for their commercial use of the site and providing them the means to include any legally required Disclosures/Disclaimers with their posts