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Originally Posted by juan valdez
i haven't followed a poker strat thread in ages but in my experience the best players and strat was an exercise in stroking their own ego. they would post vague strat or criticism. then if someone disagreed with them or told them they were wrong, they would go in to great detail to prove how right they were. giving away free strat to players and an audience that you compete with was like watching a battle between ego and common sense. ask for advice and you got very little, tell them they are wrong and they would practically post a dick pic to prove they are right
the good thing is that this doesn't apply to bfi. if you have invested in something or have an idea, you aren't giving it away to competition
Sure, I agree it's far more likely to find constructive collaboration in areas that aren't zero sum. But even in poker (or finance) you find a lot of people who're eager to use forums like this as a sounding board for their thoughts or a variety of other reasons that don't equate to curbstomping noobs. I think it's pretty easy to gauge how sensitive a person may be based on how they post and if you're taking the time to give advice - it's a lot less likely that they'll take it when you condescend.
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Originally Posted by ToothSayer
I have the opposite experience to yours and Abbaddabba's claims. And the research backs me up. Increasing wealth and success is strongly correlated with being confrontational, thriving on conflict, aggression and lower and lower empathy. There's a reason we're finding out that half of Hollywood and politics is raping people. Wealth and success are correlated with narcissism and very low empathy.
That successful people are charming to those where it benefits them to be seen as such, is of course standard. If you met me in person you'd find me likeable.
Your link is dead - not that you'd need data to prove that successful people are emotionally hardened. The difference is in the restraint that they show when talking to people who may not be.
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There's not much for me here in trading wisdom so if I can't be a "douchebag", to quote you, I post a lot less. That's the tradeoff. You've stated your preference, and I'm happy to respect it.
Another amazing trader recently banned is cicakman. Guy has posted at least 7 5+ bagger trades (figure that compounded), and rarely gets it wrong. He told a mod to eat a dick and got a perma for it. He now shares his 5+ baggers privately with some 2p2ers.
Personally I think the real damage done in this forum is the unbridled hysteria by the bitcoin posters. People have a real chance of losing their life savings because of posters in this forum advocating 100% in and no risk. That's a lot worse than being called a cuck. Not your problem, but if we're talking about real world harm, that takes the cake over putdowns and salty language.
Anyway, this is a nice forum, I think the best stock forum on the web by a wide margin, and I think it'll improve again once the market becomes livelier, and there's real strategy to discuss. We're at the top of a long bull without much volatility and no real bargains or killer trades
FWIW I think you're rarely a douchebag and for as low in empathy as you like to see yourself as being you're if anything being far too generous with your time to give people advice you know they won't listen to.