“If It Hadn’t Been for the Criminal Behavior of Those Who Were Posting in “Defense” of Mel Lindauer, Bogle Would Have Expanded on Those Comments and We All Would Have Enjoyed an Amazing Learning Experience.”

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

“ We couldn’t possibly disagree more, Anonymous. There were hundreds of people at Boglehead who indicated that I was one of their favorite posters. Those people should be able to hear from the posters that they want to hear from.”

Bogleheads was explicitly started with the goal to keep you out, given your history of bad behavior. No one wanted you there.

That’s false. There were many people there who told me that I was the first person they ever heard talk about stock investing in a way that made complete sense. It was’t a majority. But I was a significant minority, about 10 percent of the board community.

Even John Bogle had a post where he said that he could see how Valuation-Informed Indexing could work! I think it would be fair to say that , when you’ve lost John Bogle….

If it hadn’t been for the criminal behavior of those who were posting in “defense” of Mel Lindauer, Bogle would have expanded on those comments and we all would have enjoyed an amazing learning experience. I believe that the announcement of prison sentences for those who have posted in “defense” of Lindauer and Greaney are going to send shock waves through all investing communities. I am proud to be able to say that I have been speaking out in strong opposition to the criminal stuff dating back to the evening of August 27, 2002, which is the day when Greaney advanced his first death threat and I abandoned my belief in Buy-and-Hold and began my quest to develop the first true research-based strategy, Valuation-Informed Indexing.

My best and warmest wishes to you and yours, Anonymous.

Rob