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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
You honestly don’t see a difference in how Markstrom’s value was estimated around here a week ago vs post-trade? Go back and read the thread.
It happens all the time with trades here.
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I think you are seeing a totally different effect.
Threads on forums go through lifecycles:
- When there is new information you get more active discussions with a large number and wide variety of people involved. At these points you will get a better idea of what the general thoughts of the community are.
- When no new information has been available for a while, most people drop off leaving only a few stragglers dominating the conversation. This tends to be bored people making up ever more absurd and fanciful rumors on top of rumors, and well as loons with some weird take that they have decided is the hill they die on.
A week ago this had been discussed to death with no new information other than that something was still happening. Only the extremes were posting about it then, resulting in off the wall opinions dominating the discussion. Now there is news and we have more of the wider audience engaged, resulting in much more normal opinions in the conversation.
Different people having different takes seems normal to me. Extreme takes being wrong also seems pretty normal to me too.