Malor - your arguments have to stand on their own merits without bringing other people's names up.
Malor I realise this is going to be difficult for you, but you have to try to make your economic arguments stand on their own merits without bringing other people's names up.
Several people emailed me about
your comments in this thread.
Friday night / Saturday AM, Mrs Mutant & I doing the weekend dinner / drinks / movie thing, I hadn't seen the thread. Nor participated.
But, I find it telling that Malor can't make one of his points stand on it's own merits without bringing my name into it.
For several weeks if not months now I've been using 'Mondo Meta' to expunge Malor from the Metafilter experience. Why?
Well, simply put, I've been turned onto his bullshit not only by my negative experience here, but also by emails, tips and advise from folks from other sites.
But let's first discuss his behaviour on Metafilter, as it pertains to the thread I've linked, as well as other threads involving finance that I've participated in:
1) Too much hand waving. Malor doesn't know what he's trying to say even when he finally does say it. No mastery or even basic knowledge of finance or economics. And we know this because
2) Malor rarely cites source, except perhaps for a few 'blogs. But to be totally clear, brutally honest about the complete lack of intellectual rigour in his positions - Malor never cites any finance books. Malor doesn't cite any academic journals to back up his posts. He can't as these posts are his opinions only. But while Malor can't cite source he manages to post lots and lots of words. And words he doesn't understand because we know
3) Malor makes stuff up,
using finance & economic words he clearly doesn't understand in an attempt to obfuscate or otherwise elevate his argument. When asked for an explanation
he ignores the questions because he
can't clarify. He just
doesn't know as he made it all up. And when pushed too hard to answer questions
4) Malor
resorts to personal attacks. Since Malor can't argue the point, nor cite his sources or use words masterfully, he resorts to personal attacks.
Time and time again. Hardly indicative of deep thinking on or of the topic. Nor, I might add, a strong intellect.
Most critically to my decision to block - I was emailed links from other sites where Malor pulls the same shit, from folks that apparently also have had enough of his crap. So I could see this wasn't just me, it wasn't just Metafilter. So I decided it wasn't a good use of my time to debate a wannabe internet economist.
Yes, a wannabe.
Especially a wannabe internet economist that doesn't want to learn, that argues only to win, one that debates like this
QUOTE:Malor, I know you feel very passionate about this issue but what you're saying isn't grounded in reality. It goes against decades of economic research and empirical data.
Malor: Yep. And I'm mostly right, too, and they're mostly wrong. We're falling off a f*cking cliff and it's your vaunted decades of research that led us there.
Ok. In a curious perversion of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "knowledge is power", we see Malor's corollary: I'm not only ignorant, I'm right and everyone else is wrong.
Here's
another interesting post where folks on this other site complain about Malor's repeated practice of claiming to be an expert, an expert apparently on multiple and wide ranging topics, based on what he's read off the web :
"I'm not going to bite, Malor. I've seen you do this to other people in other threads because you like to argue. And you like to win arguments. I really don't care that much. I was simply trying to help the original poster. I don't know that much about Ruby. But I also don't claim to be an expert based on what I've read on the web. I can only offer my personal experience. I'm not intense. I just find it odious when someone tries to turn someone away from a product, technology, idea without knowing anything about the subject beside what they've read second-hand."
Other folks have clearly had enough of Malor's bullshit.
I could go on and on, referencing Metafilter as well as other sites but why bother? That site alone has multiple examples of Malor's bullshit, and it's not the only site that he posts on, not the only site where folks emailed me warning me of his extreme behaviour.
But back to this post.
Malor has brought my name up on Metafilter multiple times in a derogatory manner, explaining to folks what he perceives to be my character deficiencies, although he has never met me and has declined multiple opportunities to discuss our differences off line.
Malor feels this is appropriate behaviour, making such uninformed and personal attacks while commenting on unrelated matters. This evening, in an FPP I hadn't even commented in, he did it once again.
This must stop.
Malor, I've asked you in threads to stop misquoting me. But you persist.
Malor I've asked you several times to stop the personal comments but you persist.
Malor I've emailed you multiple times asking you to stop the unrelated personal attacks in threads. But you persist.
And now Malor, once again you drag my name into threads that I'm not even participating in.
Classy.
Malor, take any uninformed, extreme, lunatic position you'd like on finance or economics.
But going forward, I must now ask you publicly to leave my name out of your comments. Make your arguments stand on their own merits.
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posted by loquacious at 7:49 PM on June 27 [37 favorites]