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To: RetiredNow who wrote (58841)	4/7/2002 11:22:52 AM
From: Monty Lenard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

The thread morons were labeled as such, not so much for their contrarian viewpoints, but for their rhetoric and insults to folks who didn't want to believe their viewpoints mm, not so fast. That is not entirely true either. Better go back and reread how much of this was started. I for one did not start out being insulting as did many others that you people did not like. Another example was John Shannon who some labeled a thread moron. So the self proclaimed "non morons" are not chaste, pure, and lily white and in fact turned out to be the morons. Not to be argumentative with YOU just keeping the historians honest. :-)) Monty

To: RetiredNow who wrote (58841)	4/7/2002 12:49:42 PM
From: hueyone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

Mindmeld, there was a great double standard on SI during the tech bubble days. Contrarians who made reasoned, substantive arguments, such as Bambs did in the aforementioned example, were generally met with ridicule, rudeness and non substantive responses by the perma bulls. Then, when contrarians were finally goaded in to responding with rudeness in kind, the threads gleefully agreed to put these people on ignore, or labeled them as paid bashers or thread morons. Thank god the days of perma bull hype on SI are slowly drawing to a close. Remnants of this kind of behavior still continue at the Qualcom threads---the last of the formerly prevalent SI "hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil" investment threads. The funny thing is that the market doesn’t give a damn what people on SI think, (although I suspect during the bubble days, conversation on SI threads may have actually, briefly influenced short term stock prices from time to time.) If well-protected bullishness on SI threads actually influenced stock prices today, QCOM would be selling at $300, not $36. So rather than dismiss those with viewpoints different than ours as fools, idiots or fudsters, we may as well exchange substantive ideas and see if we can learn something from each other---as you have been doing as of late. Chasing away those with opposing viewpoints with derogatory lables isn’t going to change our investment results one way or another. Best, Huey