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Eric Norlin on Group Discussion (re Chris Pirillo): Sorry, I don't mean to lose it, but I've had it up to here with the whole "well, if you believe "MarketsAreConversations", why don't you let us talk freely." There is a big difference between "MarketsAreConversations" and every fucking idiot and his dog expressing their opinion. Don't get me wrong - I love it when people start their own WebLog. Great! Go express yourself! Guess what? If you touch a nerve, you'll get readers. But the simple fact is that most of these discussion board shitheads couldn't pull readers to their own site if their life depended on it. Not to revert to the whole Complex Adaptive Systems theory all over again, but voices of prominence rising to Super Node status in the network is simply how this shit works. No one said all of the nodes would be of equal status.