Buy-and-Hold Goon to Rob: “Your Silly Comments About Prison, Felonies, Huge Paydays, Made-Up Death Threats, etc., All Demonstrate That You Deserve the Continued Ban on the Investing Forums.”

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

Your silly comments about prison, felonies, huge paydays, made up death threats, etc., all demonstrate that you deserve the continued ban on the investing forums. There is no place for abusive posting like that.

Them’s the breaks, Anonymous.

I obviously hold a very different viewpoint. You Goons are responsible for your own behavior and should be held accountable for it. But we humans live in communities and so to some extent we are responsible for each other too. The site administrator at the Motley Fool should have given John Greaney the boot when Greaney advanced his first death threat. I wrote to him and asked him to at the time. Because he failed to do his duty as a site administrator, Greaney is looking forward to a long prison sentence today. That’s not what I have ever wanted for my old friend John and I am of course sad about it.

But I am not king of the world. I only get one vote re these mattes. I have always made clear what I think needs to be done. Once I have done that, all that I can do is to sit back and watch things play out and hope for the best. So that’s what I have done for 18 years now and what I will continue to do for the next 18 million years, if I am around that long and if The Great Safe Withdrawal Rate Debate extends that far into the future.

I do wish you all the best that this life has to offer a person, in any event. I hope that that helps at least a tiny bit.

Rob