“The Community LOVES This Stuff. That Has Been True Going Back to the First Day. It Is the Community’s Love for This Stuff That Caused the Goon Freak-Out.”

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

“ No”

And THAT is the reason that the community has rejected you. You are incapable of having any normal conversation. You would never tolerate it, yet you somehow think it is okay for you to do so.

The community has not rejected me. Hundreds of community members have praised my work in the most effusive manner imaginable. I have been humbled by their comments.

You Goons are not the community. You make up about 10 percent of the community. Many community members are afraid of you and censor themselves when they see the price that they will be made to pay if they participate in discussion in an honest and helpful and constructive way. That only shows why we have adopted laws prohibiting the types of tactics that you have employed. Once we begin enforcing those laws in a reasonable manner, the Goon stuff will be a thing of the past and we will all be on our way to living richer and better and fuller lives in the future.

The community LOVES this stuff, Anonymous. That has been true going back to the first day. It is the community’s love for this stuff that caused the Goon freak-out. Most community members don’t fully understand it. That’s why they need to be able to ask questions and learn over time. And most community members follow some form of Buy-and-Hold strategy today. So that is where their sympathies lie. But the majority of community members believe that honest posting should be permitted. And that is what matters. Once the possibility of honest posting is opened up, we are on our way to a very, very good place.

My best wishes to you.

Rob