Ah, I see you chose to only print part of the posting I submitted, OCR. Perhaps that should tell the kind readers of Piggington a little more about your character. In the first paragraph, I stated that perhaps OCR had found the home that made he and his family happy and were comfortable buying, and then I congratulated him if that were the fact.
But I will not back away from the fact that OCR feels he/she (who really knows) can hold “knife catchers” to public ridicule by divulging details of their purchase. While I understand these details are in the public record, it was his “guilty before being proven innocent” point of view that made his blog both controversial and readable.
But those who live by the sword also die by the sword, and ultimately OCR felt that they should hide for cover using the “safety of my family” excuse to absolve themselves from responsibility for their actions.
I have been a long time reader of many real estate blogs, and conducted graduate research into the ability of blogs to compete with mainstream media. Ultimately the question of journalistic ethics was found to be the most critical downfall of the blogger.
The good RE blogs like Piggington do little to hurt people emotionally, that’s not their purpose. It’s to analyze data, trends and to provide a forum for discussion. That is the tragedy of BMIT, it evolved into a bash-a-thon, perhaps to sooth someone’s anger, I’m not sure. But I won’t miss the BMIT blog, because it had become nothing more than a tabloid.
Rich, I’m sorry to use this forum to defend my comments, and if you would like I won’t post here again, I respect you enough to abide by any decision you make.
Trojan4life
(oh, and OCR…all the haters use the condom joke…so get a life)
