I have nothing against a@p. I been posting on Raging Bull for years now and attacking other posters because they have the balls to take a chance and make some cash on-line is a Silicon Investor phenomenon and really can't be found on any other sites. (Except this one of course, seems that many of those same SI posters came here and are attempting to help Matt and Bob fail out of spite, classic SI poster modus operandi.)
As a matter of fact I believe a@p is one of the very few posters at SI who actually knows anything and has any real professional experience. It is SI posters like you who made him your most popular poster and SI king icon, not I. SI has seemed to degenerated into a penny stock shorters site. After all, how many of those, Bear downs, Momma Bears & and Shortie icons can one site have and how many of them can really have "20 years" experience as they claim in their SI profiles? Were they all NASDAQ market makers, Stuart James brokers? Don't tell me, they all were trading stock when they were kids with their Dad, right? Them and their Daddies would get out the pink sheets every weekend and find another stock to short, right?
Looking to make a couple bucks? Not making any money selling mortgages part time, no more money in Amway, Avon not working out, don't go to work often, smoke cigarettes all day, gaining weight sitting at home unemployed typing all day, living off a dwindling lower six figure IRA, small inheritance, disability. Join SI, become a shorter, open you own wed site with silver, gold and platinum memberships. Get multiple aliases, talk about your private e-mail from all your friends. Talk about suing people all day. Join SI and pay a monthly fee for all this plus being suspended and expelled monthly from one of the very few pay to post sites.
I do question SI mindset which as developed where a short gang somehow thinks they are better or any different from hypsters at Raging Bull, Yahoo or any other site. At least hypsters are working for their livings while bashers are gambling.