“A Good Number of the Site Owners Loved My Stuff. You Goons Today Have an Influence on What Is Said at Our Boards Far Greater Than What Your Numbers Suggest Your Influence Should Be.”

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

“ They love, love, love conversations about the peer-reviewed research.”

Which is far from what you do when you post. People don’t love, love, love what you do, despite your claims otherwise. They have had every right to ban you and they did, just look you block people. That is why your take on board “rules” is not even relevant.

You can have your own version on what you think is honest, what you think is peer reviewed, what you think is a crisis……….all over here on your board and that were your rights end.

A good number of the site owners loved my stuff. The site administrator at the Motley Fool board told me that he thought it would be “ideal” if Greaney permitted honest posting re the research. Bill Sholar set up a separate section of his site for people to talk in peace about Valuation-Informed Indexing. It was only when you Goons threatened to burn his site to the ground that he abandoned the idea of permitting honest, research-based posting. El Supremo said that he wanted me and John Walter Russell to serve as the administators of his site. Again, he relented when the Buy-and-Hold Goon Squad at that site threatned to burn the site to the ground if he permitted honest posting re the research.

Take away the abusive and in some cases crimnal posting and there is simply no problem. You Goons make up about 10 percent of the board communities. About 10 percent are Valuation-Informed Indexers. The other 80 percent are Normals. They are Buy-and-Holders. They aren’t at all thriled to hear that their stock portfolio is worth a lot less than what they have been led by Buy-and-Holders to believe it is worth. But they are fine with honest posting being permitted and can be brought around to the research-based approach in time. Those people matters. You Goons today have an influence on what is said at our boards far greater than what your numbers suggest your influence should be. We need to encourage the site owners to show more courage by enforcing their published site rules in a reasonable way even though it enrages you Goons when they do so.

That’s where I’m coming from re this matter, in any event.

Rob