Threadjackers Will Be Persecuted (Maybe Even Prosecuted)

[Anonymous]

Rich,

The signal to noise ratio has gotten worse, but perhaps there is not any more noise, just less signal. There’s just not as much to talk about when it comes to real-estate these days.

My issue with many of the threads is that they are just way too fantastic in their premise. Even ones that start out moderately often go off the deep end. Yeah, I know there is a bearish theme to this site, but the apocalyptic predictions are just silly.

I choose to poke fun at partypup in an attempt to point out just how ridiculous her postings are. They are also just plain repetitive. Go back to posts that are years old, and it’s the same old sh#t. Lots long excerpts from articles with selective text in bold (as if that somehow makes it more relevant). Just more stuff to page through and skip over. And always the same theme: “Obama is going to destroy us all…” Yawn.

(Although, if you read her latest posts, you’ll find some stuff that is approaching violent threats.)

What compounds the problem for this site is that there is a “team” mentality from other posters: “Partypup doesn’t like Obama, I don’t like Obama, therefore I am on her side and must defend her.” (Thanks, Russell, for providing a timely example.) So we end up with pages of extremist crap and meta crap. Too much “us vs. them” and not enough about actual issues and ideas.

So, Rich, the only suggestion I can make is keep to deleting. More liberally, in fact. And if it turns out you delete any or all my posts, I won’t cry foul.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=pri_dk]
And if it turns out you delete any or all my posts, I won’t cry foul.[/quote]

No, but you’re gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company!

(Trying to keep the whole “Dr. Strangelove” leitmotif going…)

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=pri_dk]
And if it turns out you delete any or all my posts, I won’t cry foul.[/quote]

No, but you’re gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company!

(Trying to keep the whole “Dr. Strangelove” leitmotif going…)

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=pri_dk]
And if it turns out you delete any or all my posts, I won’t cry foul.[/quote]

No, but you’re gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company!

(Trying to keep the whole “Dr. Strangelove” leitmotif going…)

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=pri_dk]
And if it turns out you delete any or all my posts, I won’t cry foul.[/quote]

No, but you’re gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company!

(Trying to keep the whole “Dr. Strangelove” leitmotif going…)

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=pri_dk]
And if it turns out you delete any or all my posts, I won’t cry foul.[/quote]

No, but you’re gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company!

(Trying to keep the whole “Dr. Strangelove” leitmotif going…)

[Rich Toscano]

pri_dk —

Thanks for the followup.

I agree that the primary issue is that real estate has gotten kind of boring. It used to be this huge crazy bubble with totally out-of-whack prices and people doing and saying all kinds of nutty things. Now prices are much less out of whack, and the whole market is based more on govt policy than on economic fundamentals. The resulting quagmire is just not all that interesting to analyze or discuss, at least in comparison.

As far as “apocalyptic” posts, I don’t find them particularly compelling in their analysis, but it’s not the kind of thing I would delete. If people want to discuss that stuff, and they are being nice about it, that’s ok by me. And even the non-apocalyptically inclined can get something out of them, as often, the more optimistic (or less gloomy) among pigg posters often make counterpoints and a decent discussion results.

But that said I have definitely abandoned my former policy of benign(?) neglect towards name-calling, political flame wars, and general nastiness. Hopefully that will help.

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

pri_dk —

Thanks for the followup.

I agree that the primary issue is that real estate has gotten kind of boring. It used to be this huge crazy bubble with totally out-of-whack prices and people doing and saying all kinds of nutty things. Now prices are much less out of whack, and the whole market is based more on govt policy than on economic fundamentals. The resulting quagmire is just not all that interesting to analyze or discuss, at least in comparison.

As far as “apocalyptic” posts, I don’t find them particularly compelling in their analysis, but it’s not the kind of thing I would delete. If people want to discuss that stuff, and they are being nice about it, that’s ok by me. And even the non-apocalyptically inclined can get something out of them, as often, the more optimistic (or less gloomy) among pigg posters often make counterpoints and a decent discussion results.

But that said I have definitely abandoned my former policy of benign(?) neglect towards name-calling, political flame wars, and general nastiness. Hopefully that will help.

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

pri_dk —

Thanks for the followup.

I agree that the primary issue is that real estate has gotten kind of boring. It used to be this huge crazy bubble with totally out-of-whack prices and people doing and saying all kinds of nutty things. Now prices are much less out of whack, and the whole market is based more on govt policy than on economic fundamentals. The resulting quagmire is just not all that interesting to analyze or discuss, at least in comparison.

As far as “apocalyptic” posts, I don’t find them particularly compelling in their analysis, but it’s not the kind of thing I would delete. If people want to discuss that stuff, and they are being nice about it, that’s ok by me. And even the non-apocalyptically inclined can get something out of them, as often, the more optimistic (or less gloomy) among pigg posters often make counterpoints and a decent discussion results.

But that said I have definitely abandoned my former policy of benign(?) neglect towards name-calling, political flame wars, and general nastiness. Hopefully that will help.

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

pri_dk —

Thanks for the followup.

I agree that the primary issue is that real estate has gotten kind of boring. It used to be this huge crazy bubble with totally out-of-whack prices and people doing and saying all kinds of nutty things. Now prices are much less out of whack, and the whole market is based more on govt policy than on economic fundamentals. The resulting quagmire is just not all that interesting to analyze or discuss, at least in comparison.

As far as “apocalyptic” posts, I don’t find them particularly compelling in their analysis, but it’s not the kind of thing I would delete. If people want to discuss that stuff, and they are being nice about it, that’s ok by me. And even the non-apocalyptically inclined can get something out of them, as often, the more optimistic (or less gloomy) among pigg posters often make counterpoints and a decent discussion results.

But that said I have definitely abandoned my former policy of benign(?) neglect towards name-calling, political flame wars, and general nastiness. Hopefully that will help.

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

pri_dk —

Thanks for the followup.

I agree that the primary issue is that real estate has gotten kind of boring. It used to be this huge crazy bubble with totally out-of-whack prices and people doing and saying all kinds of nutty things. Now prices are much less out of whack, and the whole market is based more on govt policy than on economic fundamentals. The resulting quagmire is just not all that interesting to analyze or discuss, at least in comparison.

As far as “apocalyptic” posts, I don’t find them particularly compelling in their analysis, but it’s not the kind of thing I would delete. If people want to discuss that stuff, and they are being nice about it, that’s ok by me. And even the non-apocalyptically inclined can get something out of them, as often, the more optimistic (or less gloomy) among pigg posters often make counterpoints and a decent discussion results.

But that said I have definitely abandoned my former policy of benign(?) neglect towards name-calling, political flame wars, and general nastiness. Hopefully that will help.

Rich

[NotCranky]

Pri-dk, I think perhaps you mistake empathy for someone I am not often on the same page with for “team” behavior. I have always been willing to be odd man out here, answering back to popular posters and such. If anything you don’t like her, on “your” team.

[NotCranky]

Pri-dk, I think perhaps you mistake empathy for someone I am not often on the same page with for “team” behavior. I have always been willing to be odd man out here, answering back to popular posters and such. If anything you don’t like her, on “your” team.

[NotCranky]

Pri-dk, I think perhaps you mistake empathy for someone I am not often on the same page with for “team” behavior. I have always been willing to be odd man out here, answering back to popular posters and such. If anything you don’t like her, on “your” team.

[NotCranky]

Pri-dk, I think perhaps you mistake empathy for someone I am not often on the same page with for “team” behavior. I have always been willing to be odd man out here, answering back to popular posters and such. If anything you don’t like her, on “your” team.

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