like ivomm said, I can see any poster that gets a bit pissed off when it seems that such certainty is being called with down that it could get fence sitters and nocoiners and newbies to wait when they should be buying... because even if the likelihood of down looks so damned good, many times newbies, fence sitters and nocoiners should just be establishing a plan and taking action rather than waiting, as some of the down before up predictions seem to encourage, even if down before up might end up being correct.
From long experience of markets, I have noted that this sort of balance (where there is excessive critique of bearish opinion) is invariably a significantly bearish sign for the stock/market involved.
Could be, yet I don't believe that either ivomm or serveria were being excessive in their criticisms towards the bearish opinions, and like I said above, we might be getting too many newbies, nocoiners and fence sitters waiting when they should be buying and developing a plan for buying and taking a stake in BTC, for their own good.
That's the thing Jiggy, when someone makes a bullish post - there are no disputes or confrontations - ever.
On the other hand if a member (non-legendary usually) makes a bearish remark, he can find himself been accused of lying, manipulating or trying to influence newbies, & even as far as trying to discredit other members that might have the same opinion.
Heh, I remember JayJuanGee denounces me as a bear once, even tho my posts were actually bullish.
Several times JJG
once got annoyed at me for
my various dumbass behaviors including my being too bullish and calling bottom and declaring a new Bull Market in December 2018. We are cool now though,
and mostly
bordering on being the best of buds......
247 days into the new
BTCull Market and all is well.
FTFY
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Nice post JJG, long as usual, but well thought out while being entertaining with little to no redundancy. Kudos. At its very essence imo its pretty noble for serveria and ivomm to get mad about a bearish post, I mean its kinda one of things where the sound money cause is bigger than a personal prediction of where price will go. As a frequent partaker in Bullish propaganda production I respect this.
My thing w ivomm was more about the actual content of his posts and how they werent accurate in their portrayal of what I actually wrote. I tried to address him directly on this and clear it up but he never responded, so Im just gonna forget about it and move on.
You do bring up a good point about newbs and fence sitters that is gonna give me something to think about tbh. I dont want to steer them in the wrong direction bc there is never a bad time to buy Bitcoin and their newb brains may be fragile.
I have some friends and fam that I would never mention short term bearish ideas to bc they might freak if they heard a die hard bull like me mention anything other than long term moon. I have more advanced hodler friends who I enjoy discussing short term predictions (bullish or bearish) with and bouncing ideas back and forth, and many on WO fall into this mold, but it is easy to forget about newbs observing WO from the shadows.
Tricky sitiuation, I will have to think on it. This problem will solve itself for the most part in a few months when I go relentlessly long and short term bullish for month after month after month, but it will come up again of course.
@majormax, unfortunately you bring up a good point and Ive noticed this phenomena and its current parallels as well.