boglerdude wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2019 11:33 pm
The 1st ban should be for a week. Y'all kept taking his troll bait.
Didn’t Budd temporarily “ban” himself once or twice before by disappearing for a while after a heated argument on this forum?
I agree, though — everyone kept taking the bait. Deep down, I think a lot of people get a sense of satisfaction from arguing with trolls, even if they refuse to admit it. Similar to how audiences enjoy booing and hissing at villains on a stage.
boglerdude wrote:
And what % of us are pure 4x25?
I’m one of the small handful of forum members who is pure 4x25 in my investments (and 100% cash in savings with a time horizon of less than about three years). The HBPP suits me just fine both philosophically (agnostic about the future) and practically (it provides a fair inflation-adjusted return on average). For me, it’s “good enough.”
But that’s beside the point, because as others have already pointed out, Budd wasn’t banned for his portfolio preference; he was banned for his behavior (and because he explicitly asked to be banned).