Post by porkini on Feb 6, 2021 17:01:48 GMT -5
Maybe, maybe not. I tend to look askance on any accusations of "bashing", soft or otherwise, and prefer discussions on the merits of arguments without the name-calling.
For me, it all goes back to tony.
My first gig as a message board moderator was on a ProBoard for a penny stock scam named CMKX Diamonds. The only reason I got involved in CMKX (and penny stocks) at all was that a friend of mine suggested I look into it. On the board were lots of intelligent people (along with the less-intelligent of course.) And I mean, some of those folks were REALLY smart, and I figured there must be at least some potential in a company mining diamonds in Saskatchewan (well, claiming to be anyway. There weren't any actual diamonds.)
I was soon made a mod and it was exciting. If posts were really negative on the company, those posters got attacked by others and usually just went away. But one guy, tony, did not get scared off. For years, he'd hang around, and consistently cast aspersions on the company and its flashy CEO, Urban Casavant, an heir to the Casavant Organ Company. Urban's brother Ron was also part of the company. They sponsored a drag race driver and a female motorcycle racer. I remember there was a crash at a big NASCAR race and when the cameras zoomed in, you could see the big "Got CMKX?" billboard in the background.
As the scam slowly disintegrated over the years, it turned out that tony was right. There was virtually nobody else who'd been pounding the table on how slimy the whole thing was. I'm pretty sure he helped wake a lot of us up, though we probably weren't willing to admit it. By the end, I was DM-ing tony to let him know I knew he was right all along, and to thank him for hanging in.
Now of course MNKD isn't CMKX, but the entire experience has taught me that even smart people can be duped, and it's probably not too good an idea to be close-minded when it comes to investments. People can have honest opinions that are different than mine, as easily as "dishonest" opinions. It is VERY hard to tell the two apart, and often not worth the effort, because it's the facts that count, not necessarily the motivations of those posting.
It's a pretty large leap to go from "They're wrong about this, it doesn't match my understanding of the facts" to "They're a paid basher."
Just my .0002 (an old joke from the CMKX days LOL)
BD : Lately, you have been coming up with some new (for me) words. Ex: askance, L'chaim, another one I dont remember now (something while responding to a type of order?) I look up any word that I dont know, and try to remember most of them.
I humbly present this offering from Fiddler on the Roof: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvr8AjT0aD0