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To: Sully- who wrote (371)	3/24/2006 9:11:53 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Yep...the other fallacy is that speaking to truth...even when such is unpleasant is "behaving badly"....for instance...there are those on this site who feel it is appropriate to denigrate those who no longer number among the living and are unable to defend themselves from attacks.....those kinds of people find that someone who points out that people who engage in such behavior are lower than pond scum is "behaving badly"....rather than simply speaking to truth by any measure of human decency.... J.

To: Sully- who wrote (371)	3/24/2006 5:56:27 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14758

You are quite right about that. The most bookmarked people on SI spend time on stock threads where bookmarking a fellow investor is a matter of sound family economics. With a few well-known exceptions, the most ignored people on SI are conservatives of all demeanor. SI leftists seem to use the ignore button as a way to demonstrate they know all and should not be compelled to waste their time learning anything new from people they disagree with. It's a convenient way to lock in flawed ideas while blocking out a healthy dose of reality --- like a cyber version of the Berlin Wall. I found that more than two-thirds of the people who have me on ignore have been "Banished" from SI --- every one a crazed leftist, and probable danger to society. Knowing this, it is clear that using something as silly as a bookmark-to-ignore ratio to assess the competency of other posters is illogical and somewhat juvenile. Why someone would even bring it up is puzzling.