STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Tuesday, 9 July 2013

[A HERETIC I AM]

51. This isn't a "community"

It is a DISCUSSION THREAD.

Started daily by you, just the latest in a line of folks who think they are actually doing something important.

It isn't a forum or a group unto itself, no matter how much you and the others might like to think so. You have about as much authority to "show me the door" as GW Bush does in getting me to believe he was a good president.

You said "If you don't like this community -- and you made it very clear that you don't".

Here's part of what I don't like, an example in your own post, to wit;

It's a fact that when people barge into DU communities where they're not welcome because of the sentiments they attempt to impose on the regular citizens of those communities, they get banned.

What is so astounding is the unmitigated arrogance that has for quite some time now prevailed over members of this little club that encourage them to think they are so damned superior that before someone has even typed a SINGLE WORD, they might be not welcome. As an example, there is a HUGE difference between saying in all caps "THERE IS NO GOD!" in the religion group and posting on this THREAD that things aren't as bad as you all make them out to be.

So why do you feel it's so necessary for you to come in here and be rude to us?

Because you and others on this thread are rude to DU'ers REPEATEDLY and have been for years, THAT'S WHY. You don't like it when you get a bit of pushback, do you? Not so nice, is it? This is the first time I have posted in this thread in months and months - probably close to a year, but I glance at it on occasion when I need a good chuckle or my blood pressure is dangerously low.

Who gives a damn if marybourg has come in with the same "sales pitch" (what pitch? 'Buy Vanguard Funds! They're the bestestes!!?!?!' Is that it?) repeatedly. Alert on her if she is a true spammer and MIRT will look into it. She's been here for almost 5 years and has over 2200 posts. Are every single one of them promoting the Vanguard Group? Put her on ignore, for crying out loud. But YOU and the others I mentioned were rude to her and have been rude to literally dozens of others and it is a regular occurrence with this thread like NO OTHER ON THIS MESSAGE BOARD.

Why is it that this little club doesn't grow? Ever considered that?

What did any of us ever do to you?

See above. Rudeness - check. Insult - check Etc. Etc. - check and double check, not to mention it would be nice if at least ONE of you actually knew what the hell you were talking about at least some of the time.

Have I ever gone into your threads and called it a mockery?

First of all, I don't give a sloppy Tinkers cuss and secondly, knock yourself out. If any thread I put up truly is a mockery, then you'll be right and I'll probably learn from it. If it isn't a mockery, then you'll look like a fool. Either way, modern science has yet to invent the device that can measure how tiny the bit of difference it will make to me.

BUT.....THIS thread IS a mockery. What's really funny is that you have no idea how much of one.

I'm not sure that any of us has EVER set ourselves up as the only truly knowledgeable people on DU,

Yeah...right. You've been on DU what? 11 years? 12? And you've been putting up this thread for around a year or so? And participating for quite a few years before that. If you can't see how ridiculous that statement is, then there is NO HOPE for your credibility. Either that or you have the memory capacity of a planarian.

We also understand the meaning of sarcasm.

Yes. Quite. Aren't you all just a tight little group of cleverness, eh?

All this matters because this thread has the potential to actually be great. It always had that potential, but it has been hijacked for years now by people like you and Fuddnick and demeter and the others who have NO DESIRE AT ALL to step out of your little bubble. You know what would be a great addition for people who actually want to WATCH the Stock Market? The closing prices of the 30 Dow stocks! Or the S&P 500 biggest gainers and losers!!! AMAZING!! .........Why noooo Heretic! That would entail actually putting up info a stock market watcher could bloody well use!! That would leave less room for pointless, endless, tedious, cut and pasted articles from the Journal Economica Obscura. And we just can't have that, now can we?

You don't want a conversation nor do you want to actually help people interested in watching the stock market do their watching. You also don't want to hear a point of view different from your own. And you have basically made this a closed shop.

And that makes DU suck.