VADCMD – “Please dont be afraid of her posts”
I am not afraid of her posts. I just think they add nothing to the forums, belittle the work Rich has done, scare away new readers, and make everyone wade through drivel to find something useful.
powayseller – “Start writing, folks! ”
There are two ways to make the forum more community oriented – one is for others to post more. Another is for you to post less. Fact of the matter is – the real estate market moves so slowly, daily insights are pretty much impossible to come by and you prove that several times a day. Before the forums, Rich would post a couple times a week and the site was amazingly valuable because he would wait to post until he had something interesting. Your attempts to provide insight HOURLY don’t work.
Futhermore, one does not have to start threads to contribute, in my opinion.
lostkitty = “Make them interesting, inflammatory, or insightful enough to have them stay at the top and get responses”
Here’s one right here, kitty. Maybe there’s something to it, eh? MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOW.
BikeRider – “This blog is in America, right?”
Yep – and we are free to express our concern over the mess powayseller is making of this great site.
powayseller – “Don’t you see what’s really happening? I’m being used, totally”
If you really feel you are being used – please, by all means stop.
powayseller – “I was the one who explained the median”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You learn something new and figure nobody else has understood it prior to you learning it. Then you post it and think you have taught everyone something, when in fact we knew it all along or read in Rich’s articles several months before you showed up.
ex lurker – “I do not think … might have a chance”
Nice post. Well said.
salo_t – “Does this mean that there’s nothing to talk about anymore? I really miss Rich’s articles but I have a feeling those have gone the way of the 400k condo’s.”
Hmmmmm. I’m starting to wonder that myself.
To all:
The general notion that without powayseller, there would be no interesting posts is based on the assumptions that
1) her posts are interesting
2) the large volume of posts does not affect how often others post and
3) The forum needs more than one good insightful post a day.
If she didn’t post so often, four things would happen:
1) We wouldn’t rely on her to keep the conversation going and would post more ourselves.
2) Those who do post wouldn’t have their threads lost in the quagmire of repetitive powayseller posts.
3) Others would spend time adding insight instead of critiquing (spelling?) her analysis, which is regularly flawed.
4) More new readers would view this as less of an extremist site and stick around longer, bringing a larger pool of potential thread-starters.
whitesoftheireyes – “Powayseller, you’re a blog-jacker ”
Blogjacker is a new term to me, but a perfect one in this case. Thanks.
