There's a fascinating posting culture on this board, probably typical of other finance boards, but still mysterious.
The current situation we find ourselves in is such:
-A strong percentage of regular posters believe payment re escrow markers is very imminent.
-While this has happened a couple times a year for the last 15 years, reading the latest posts I would classify the mood this time as "very sure", probably in the top 5 of roughly 30 such instances in terms of the general posting crowd's surety of payout.
-As such one would expect non-stop posting from all different members about all different aspects of what is to come or what may be, after all there is sometimes non-stop posting about much less exciting developments.
-Yet, mysteriously, a bit of a quite has developed. If you calculate how many posts per hour at various different times or events, right now is surprisingly slow if you consider many posters are imminently expecting an event, and as a psych person I find that fascinating. So whats the reason? I see three possibilities:
1. Everyone is so sure of payout there's not much more to say, but just sit and wait for it to manifest.
2. Subconsciously there is reasonable trepidation that this is another disappointing false alarm and everyone is holding their breath.
3. A combination of 1 and 2.
As I am less a contributor, and more an observer of behavior of the posters here, I'd love to hear from you all, those who often post 30 times a day, every day, but now are less active. Please share your reason for slowed posting behavior.
TIA
Vodka
