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as SA editors evaluate these responses to gauge sentiment about their editorial policy, they should keep in mind that this is a "self-selected" sample, which is not a scientific sample -- they would have to ask a random sample of readers to get any meaningful data on the question. their traffic is enormous and most readers probably don't register or comment -- to the extent that they make money on advertising or other traffic-based factors, it is the sentiment of the whole, not the sentiment of the commenting-corp that counts -- and if either the editorially selected content or the commenter deposited content is unsatisfactory to the readership as a whole, SA will suffer as a profit making business, which I believe it is meant to be first and foremost

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very well said Lesser.

it all makes good sense, and i particularly liked your comment about a cerebral rather than visceral approach to investing.

it is well accepted that when the heart or stomach take control of the investment process from the rational, calculating side of the brain, losses are just around the corner

if SA is about investing and investing process, the editors (who are the real problem more than the authors when it comes to posts containing the vulagarities and expletives -- because if SA editors don't select it, you won't see it) might consider that publishing highly emotional articles, they tend to encourage emotional investing, which is not the best approach to investing

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mark mchugh:

Now I am really insulted and really mad. 5?!?! It was at least a 7. That must be damnation with slight praise, and that is nicer than calling me a bleeping, bleeper.

I agree with you completely about backdoor publishing and malcontents cruising the comment sections to disrupt more than to contribute.

You lost me, or perhaps exceeded my intellect, when you got over to foreign policy, but I'm sure that was not an instance of promoting your own agenda.

Glad, though, to hear that you are supportive of authors who try, and that it is more the dumb ass commenters than the hapless authors who are more likely to experience your wrath.

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Mark McHugh:

You said, "I want to be able to mop the floor with their dumb ass, for all to see".

Ah! you reveal yourself. YOU want to JUDGE and show ALL TO SEE that YOU are smarter than the author. It is not about the "dumb ass" author, it is about you as the "smart ass" commenter. Does it make you feel good when you can "mop the floor" with someone who at least tried to make a point (not forgetting that no author posts on SA -- editors at SA select articles)

If anybody is a "dumb ass" it is the editors of SA who select the material you find to be drivel.

If your great intelligence and sharp wit was put to better use, you would be critical of SA for choosing to publish what you judge to be drivel, and mop them across the floor for all to see (how smart you are) instead of the poor sap who tried to make a point and at least had the balls to put his or her ideas out their for people like you to read and use for target practice.

Maybe you could find other ways to boost your self-image and spend less time harassing people trying to engage in a dialog on ideas. An approach such as yours is the death of any online community intended to be an exchange of ideas, because you turn it into and exchange of insults. I so regret having to deal with you in kind, but can't let your egotistical, self-important comments stand.

Get a life, asshole!

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You will reap what you sow. Publish shit and you will turn into shit.

Bernie Madoff Comes Out of the Closet

Cassandra:

"What the f*ck f*ck f*cking f*ck could he be doing"

Vocabulary a bit limited, don't you think? Maybe it needs just one more "f*ck" to really make your point.