I think you may have taken something the wrong way. I consider everyone on this ihub forum to be among the "informed" including obviously you.
You are correct in that I only recently joined IHUB.
I bought my first VTSI shares in 2009 at 10 cents and have added more many times since then and have never sold even a single share. I own more than 1% of the company and less than 5%. I bought about 100k shares today.