Ray – you sound like an online stalker!

I’ve been reading Weakonomics for very long too and its a great blog!

I have in recent months posted Guest Blog Entries at a good number of blogs as part of an effort to spread knowledge of the exciting investing-related findings of the Retire Early and Indexing discussion-board communities (we have been breaking lots of new ground over the past seven years). There’s a group of internet thugs that follows me around and puts up an endless number of defamatory and threatening posts wherever one of my guest blog entries appears.

A number of the site owners have capitulated to the Goons and either taken down the guest blog entry, banned honest posting on our findings at their sites, or permitted the defamatory and threatening posts to stand without taking any action to protect those seeking to participate in discussions. Phil is one of the few who fearlessly stood up for his blog community.

Here are his words to his community explaining why he had to delete a post put forward by one of Greaney Goons when the Goon posteer tried too defame one of our researchers by posting nonsense under his name:

“If these comments seem confusing it is because one of them was deleted per the request of a user. It’s an identity theft kind of thing, and it won’t be tolerated.”

If all blog owners acted with similar courage, we would be learning a whole big bunch more about how to invest effectively than we have been in recent years. It doesn’t take many to make a difference. I am hopeful that Phil is going to serve as a model for others and that blog owners will be uniting in days to come to protect our readers from the sorts of ugliness and deception that has long been used to attack the Retire Early and Indexing communities.

In short, I too am a big Weakonomist fan. I view him as a Hero of the First Rank in our communities. Thanks, Phil!

Rob

The link to “10 things I hate about economists” leads to the 6 Star Wars lessons.

Weakonomics is indeed quite good.

Nicolas

And I second the suggestion that readers check out Weakonomics if they haven’t yet. His writing is fantastic.