Many investors here do indeed have a lot to lose and gain over whether a VIN sighting is real or fake, and pictures are a big, big thing in separating fact from fiction for de-risking that sort of speculation.
I'm not personally a crazy short-term investor, but the pseudo-public information first coming to TMC before anywhere else has been a factor in making significant investing decisions in TSLA that were significantly de-risked by something as small as pictures. My mortgage is thankful for people who post information such as this, past, present, and future.
Anyways, maybe it's just me--coming from a state where any license plate easily leads to your address, and your address easily leads to your name in publicly-searchable online databases. Nothing private about it. What a single individual might post about, several thousand drivers have already seen from that Model X in transit on public roads (they don't airlift these things, or ship them through private tunnels cross-country you know!). Also if not for the VIN itself, people would have no idea of it's their Model X, or one of the several dozens of Model X's that looks close enough to their own configuration. It's just my opinion that ignorance is bliss for those who get worked up about it. If it becomes a forum rule, I'll be quite sad but that isn't up to me to make such a decision.[/COLOR]
