Nice post sdduuuude, you are definitely one of the Site Elders.
One clarification, I never posted my stuff on craigslist. This one guy would always post my stuff over on CL, and it always led to lots of hate-posts about me (most of which seemed, to my annoyance, to assume that I was the one posting my stuff over at CL).
Just for a blast from the past, here is one delightful email I received in June 2005:
Subject: Can you stop posting this garbage?
You know, I see your articles all over the place on CL. Can you stop?
If people want to hear about the Real Estate Bubble bursting let them seek you out.
I am tired of clicking on innocent looking ads and reading your garbage.
I had to explain to this jerk that seeing as how I had my own website, I didn’t really feel the need to post over on CL so that a bunch of vicious and ignorant permabulls could lay into me on a daily basis.
Actually come to think of it I did post to CL just once. I never really followed what was going on there, but one time someone forwarded me a post written by some permabull claiming that I was bitter because I’d never owned a home. This was untrue, I’d owned two different homes in the past, so I felt the need to set the record straight.
I posted to let him know he was an uninformed idiot, and the whole lot of them jumped on me and said I (the poster) was lying about being “piggington”. So after incorrectly accusing me of posting my own stuff for ages, the one time I did post, they said it wasn’t me. And that was the last time I bothered to post there…
Good times!
Anyway, when I saw sdduuude’s thing about my posting on CL, I felt inclined to clarify!
