Set forth below ia the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:
The problem for you is that the American public wants “honest posting” to be truthful posting.
10 percent of the American public loves my stuff. I have had more effusive praise directed at me over the past 22 years than any other poster in any of our communities that I can think of. Now, the other side of the story is that most of those other posters have only rarely had negative words directed at them while I have seen ten negative ones for every positive one. I am banned at every large site and these others are celebrated at most sites.
Those realities tell me that Buy-and-Hold is the past and Valuation-Informed Indexing is the future. I don’t enjoy hearing the negative comments. But they are not a good sign for Buy-and-Hold. We wouldn’t see harshly negative comments if Buy-and-Hold inspired true confidence in its followers. We would see a desire to engage in calm, thoughtful debate. That sure ain’t what we have seen from the Buy-and-Hold side. So what I have seen tells me that I am sitting on the right side of the table.
Yes, the American public has sympathies with Buy-and-Hold. That’s clear. But the American public also has sympathies with the idea of permitting civil and reasoned discussion of the peer-reviewed research. The laws that apply (and that the members of the various Buy-and-Hold Goon Squads ignore) show that. It’s an unstable situation to have 43 years of peer-reviewed research showing that the dominant investment strategy is gravely flawed and for us not to be able to talk about this at even a single large site. Unstable situations change as the instability brings on more and more problems.
We’ll see, you know?
Rob
“10 percent of the American public loves my stuff.”
But not one of them posts here.
Knock off the funny business and watch how many post here..
It will be thousands every day.
I am sure.
Rob