While you were gone the other SI Admins took it upon themselves to ban MythMan for unjust reasons. I hope you plan to
reverse this decision of your peers.
There is only one other SI Admin. That's Jeff.
I don't think it'll violate any rules of my conduct for me to say here that I am the person who suspended MythMan's account.
If the market goes up, we are taunted by the clowns because
the market went up. If the market goes down, we are taunted by the clowns because they think the short sellers make the
market go down. If the market doesn't do anything, we are taunted by the clowns
I think most of the Clown Free Zone shares
the opinion that most of the other SI members are unable to understand the complex economy
The whole idea of referring to those who disagree as "clowns" is likely an important piece of this problem. Someone disagrees with me, therefore they're a "clown", "idiot", "fool", "Bozo", "moron" or whatever. Such a label makes it easy to dismiss them and their statements. And elevates me by knocking them down.
Let me paraphrase your statements in the hopes of making my point clearer. "Those idiots are too stupid to understand market-related things so they taunt us all the time."
Do they taunt because they've been taunted? Perhaps. It's often the case.
It's one thing to prove our outlook is the correct one. It's another to make ours appear better by criticizng any other outlook. It's quite another to (attempt to) make ours appear to be the only correct one by referring to others as idiots if they don't use our approach to the market.
I think that this is very unfair that 10-20 taunts by the clowns, followed up by one or two responses by an
anti-clown leads to one of us being banned
That would be unfair. Fortunately, it's not the case. At least not that I'm aware of. If we've missed something, let me know. But before you do, please check the profile of whoever you think was doing the taunting and see if they're currently posting. They might not be. MythMan has lots of company in Fort Bob right now. And will be released earlier than his cellmates because his posts, though still inappropriate, were provoked to a certain extent.
I hope the SI admins can come up with a better way to moderate the disputes that go on between the clowns and the
anti-clowns. This seems very unfair the way the situation is currently handled.
Perhaps it's not in the hands of the admins at all. While I've never had the following conversation with anyone verbatim, it's the way a lot of these discussions come across to me:
Member: "So-and-so just called me an idiot."
Me: "Yes, they did. In reply to your post calling them one."
Member: "But when I said it, it was true."
It's not possible for me to keep up with every post in this thread, but I've read enough during its existence that the "they're taunting us but we're not taunting them" gambit really doesn't work with me. ;)
Regards,
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