CrankyCharlie, please title these posts OT that are pretty far away from Berkshire Hathaway or even investing in general.

The reasonable focus of each board is one of a few pillars what makes Shrewd'm really work.

You have started the similar thread subject three times, each time without OT.

Even more importantly, please focus on the content of the post as your own writing rather than copy pasting whole articles. Instead copy just the link and make the bulk of the content your own writing. People will be far more interested as they will be listening to a human rather than an unanswerable article.

This will motivate the Shrewd'm authors to enter the subject as they will feel you can counter them with good arguments. But with just dumping articles, it is *perceived* as bordering upon spam.

The better board for this topic might be Atheist Shrewds based, which is due to be renamed Political Asylum, with its near-exclusive political focus, though it is more US focussed than internationally and not stating ideas that are out of bounds by the establishment (which is normally what an asylum has the purpose, and a valuable purpose, to protect). Your insights about Gates if presented well in your own words could be more catalytic there.

Think of the culture of Shrewd'm along the lines of people having dinner together and really respecting each other, and talking, and with real goodwill. This is very different to presenting articles. You wouldn't do that over dinner but would instead talk about them. Readers here like original (ideally long) written arguments/insights by the author. This puts Shrewd'm in a completely different world to just about everywhere else now. Let's preserve it.

With respect.

- Manlobbi