“Right Now, It Takes a Lot of Effort to Learn What You Need to Become a Valuation-Informed Indexer. I Was a Buy-and-Holder Because for a Long Time I Had Never Heard the Other Side of the Story. Until the Other Side of the Story Is Told in Great Detail at Lots of Places, Progress Is Going to Be Slow. But Once We Begin Getting the Word Out in a Serious Way, Progress Will Be Rapid Because the Case for VII Is So Strong.”

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

That doesn’t add up. You said you have thousands is supporters and you don’t need many to earn a living. How are buy and holders blocking you from anything?

There are thousands of people who have expressed a desire that honest posting be permitted at every discussion board and blog on the internet. Those people don’t necessarily support Valuation-Informed Indexing. Most of them do not. They have an interest. They want to be able to ask questions. But as of now, they more Buy-and-Holders than they are Valuation-Informed Indexers.

This is why it is so important that every site be opened to honest posting. Even if every site were opened to honest posting. there would still be lots of people who would opt for Buy-and-Hold. It might well be that it would still be a majority who would opt for Buy-and-Hold. My guess is that that would be the case, at least for some time into the future.

But there is no question in my mind that we would have many more converts to VII if every site were opened to honest posting. Many more. Investing is an important matter. People are not going to change their strategy based on what one guy on the internet says. They need to hear lots of people come at the questions from lots of different perspectives and they need to be able to ask lots of questions. Over time, people come around. That’s just the way it works.

We can’t get there without opening every site to honest posting. Right now, it takes a lot of effort to learn what you need to learn to become a Valuation-Informed Indexers. I was a Buy-and-Holder myself for a long time. I don’t think of myself as stupid. I was a Buy-and-Holder because for a long time I had never heard the other side of the story. Until the other side of the story is told in great detail at lots of places, progress is going to be slow. But once we begin getting the word out in a serious way, progress will be rapid because the case for VII is so strong.

Naturally, I want progress to be rapid. So I want to see every site opened to honest posting on the last 36 years of peer-reviewed research. Some Buy-and-Holders are holding us back by engaging in criminally abusive behavior. Others are holding us back by failing to speak up in opposition to the criminally abusive behavior. Every single person alive in the United States today should be speaking up in opposition to you Goons. There shouldn’t be one person not urging that your prison sentences begin as soon as possible. It is not even possible for the rational human mind to imagine any possible benefit coming from a delay in announcement of your prison sentence.

Does that help?

Rob