You make several valid points, and I agree overall with your post.
However, concluding that I did come from an environment inside the securities industry and was not exposed to the same things that Anthony was exposed to, and that my contribution to SI is only in the form of posts, and that the "quality of [my] posts" is somehow of less value than his, or that he can pick stocks better than I can, or spell better than I can or do anything at all better than I can, is not only incorrect, it is irrelevant. You don't know me, so you have no way to know who I am or where I came from. You can adore some stock picker all you want, that's up to you.
Here is my point:
The underlying concept here is that you, and me, and Anthony, and Tom the New Guy, and Thurston Howell and Zorro and Mighty Mouse and Tom Swift and everybody else is on THE SAME TEAM.
The rules should be clear and understandable. The rules protect all the members, whether or not they are brand new and don't know what a market order is, or whether they used to be a broker at a scummy firm. Where you came from, what you know, what you think and what you believe are irrelevant.
The reason this site exists is to help people learn about investing and to help them do better in life. Anything that adds to that is good. Anything that detracts from that is bad.
If it's real bad, then it's breaking the rules.
If you break the rules, no matter how many people think you are God's Gift to Silicon Investor, then you are friggin' gone.
Because the bottom line is that it really isn't just about stocks and investing, it's about life and living life with people that are different than you are. Everybody is different. Everybody. You can either get pissed off that they are not the same as you, or you can find something that IS the same and get along with them.
Unless they break the damn rules, and then screw them, they are gone.
That's why we have the friggin' rules.
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