<Paul and Mitch, I know of no other forum or any definitive plans to create another forum. I'am sorry to say but if you have the time to lurk on this thread all day, then you have time to place a call and accept some of the responsibility that comes with investing. It's called doing your own DD. Your investment, your dollars, your responsibility. Hate to be harsh but if by now you don't know what you own, or you just use this thread to gauge sentiment so that you can flip, I'm not about to grease your pockets with my sweat. RB>
RB,
I have long have had tremendous respect for you (and have stated this very thing here many, MANY times). Still do. But I'm naturally responding to what I believe is a very nasty post you (surprisingly) directed at me earlier today.
You didn't "[h]ate to be harsh"; you were harsh for your own reasons, but methinks you have me confused with someone else. Especially when I read stuff like: "It's called doing your own DD. Your investment, your dollars, your responsibility." Yeah, I know; I've been trying to preach these very things for months (and nothing else) on this here thread. And "if...you just use this thread to gauge sentiment so that you can flip, I'm not about to grease your pockets with my sweat", when I've clearly long-identified myself as a small-time investor (5,000 shares; cost basis of just under $4.00/share) and forever holding, not trading (as I've also mentioned ad nauseum). So I'm sorry, but I'm a bit ticked. I hope next time you direct your venom at more appropriate targets than me.
I have written many posts here over the past few months stressing my great long-term confidence in Franklin, as well as the need for others to do DD (and to stop whining so incessantly). I used to post a lot more, but lately have mainly lurked due to the disintegrating nature of the thread. My long-term confidence in Franklin remains. I've never said or intimated otherwise; I feel I know what I own and I'm very comfortable with that. What's more, what's this about--"if you have the time to lurk on this thread all day..."? You've posted here probably more than most people (and I'm glad you have).
I don't lurk on this thread every hour of every day. Some days I try to, but most days I'm too busy. I do try to read most posts by the end of most days, and I do read this thread with a comprehensive approach. Partly because I so enjoy having my DD validated in spades by the likes of you, vic, Temp, et al. And I've said this very thing in numerous posts.
My response to Mitch was only in the hopes that if another forum is being created, that I'd like to participate, as I'm so positive about Franklin. That's it; nothing more.
I'm not maligning you in any way, just trying to correct what I believe is a (very) false impression of me.
A warm shalom. |
