Kasabi always posts about this habit of posters to proclaim "I am this, I am that." I thought this was an interesting pairing. Maybe he's diagnosed the correct symptom, but misattributed the cause.

The difference between you and I is I take people at their word until they give me a reason not to. You have been bias towards me since day one. I mean you just showed it by your comments of my "introductory thread. It's quite clear. Here's the thing though, I never once insulted you. In fact I have even complimented you in the past. There is no need to throw insults now at me. If you cant take constructive criticism then perhaps you are not the right person to be moderating others. I don't brag, I never have. You see it as a bold statement, I see it for what it is. The truth. If a man climbed every mountain on this planet, and told others about it, on a mountain climbing forum, would that be arrogance and ego?

If you knew anything about marketing, you would know a title is merely for the purpose of drawing attention and intrigue. Can you think of any better way I could of showed my experience to the community within a few words? Has anyone on this forum had almost 40,000 views and over 500 posts on their introduction post alone?

As far as ego's go, its the majority of you that have the ego's the forums so called "elite" You all have not even given me a chance, I was ridiculed since day one. I see people getting props by half of you, meanwhile they are saying points that I have already made ( but was ridiculed for) Should I have lied about my experience and lay count? Would that of been better? WTF! Should I have dulled it down? Am I the only one on this forum that loves women with an extreme overwhelming passion, am I the only one that is obsessed with the art of seduction? Is this a Pick up artist forum? It sure as hell doesn't seem like one.

You need to get into the real world, if you see me as arrogant you are blind.

I am not gonna change my personality to suit you, or anyone else. It took me a long time to become the man that I am, In the real world people fucking adore me. I take pride in my honesty, and respectability. I have never encountered this kind of shit in real life. If anyone should be pissed off it's me. For one I am much older then a majority of you, I have tried to remain respectable at all times even in the mouth of ridicule. The lack of respect is insulting.

The irony of it all is, wise men would try to learn from someone like me, or at least learn from my experience. ( especially the ones that are already some what successful) Instead what do the majority of you all do? YOU DOUBT, ridicule, and assume arrogance, assume I am lying, assume I am delusional.

IF this was a business forum or a sales forum and someone joined and said they had x number of sales, or 20 years experience and could back it up, a majority of the community would probably welcome them and try to utilize that individuals experience. Ego's would not be clouding everything. Not here! Anyone that feels they are somewhat accomplished doesn't want to hear a thing from a person like me. You've all read your books and field tested your theories and thats fucking great, good for you all. But tell me this, has any of you been around this game for 20 years??? I'll be the first to admit, at the pace a majority of the forum veterens are going, you all could easily best me in this game after 20 years.

I am not claiming to be the all mighty pick up master. I am not claiming to be anything but someone that has had a passion for seduction for 2 decades. AND YES I AM DAMN GOOD AT IT!!! call that arrogance if you like, I earned the fucking right to be proud, I put my time and effort in. I have even sacrificed a family life for my experience. I have paid the toll in many ways. Yet you dare call it egotistical. SHAME ON YOU KID!

You're welcome to have your own opinion of me. But don't assume to know who I am, and don't assume to know my character. I have always been polite to you Ezo even when you decided to be biased towards me. I have complimented you in the past. This is a FORUM THAT IS OPEN FOR DEBATE AND OPINIONS. You have you opinion of me and that's fine. I certainly have a new opinion of you.

If your only argument is the title of one of my threads. Then there is no point in debating anything here.

Lets leave it at that, I am not here to pick fights or be involved with negative energy. If I have insulted you, I can assure you that was not my intentions. I will be sure be more aware of your sensitive nature in the future.

Just know this, I am not like Stelar or anyone of the sort. I still have loads of info in me to share. And I will gladly do so. If you or any other moderators have any issues with me or anything I post, then by all means PM me.

One last thing to keep in mind, when you or anyone else is passing judgement. The majority of the community, even the long time dwellers at one time came here to better themselves, came here to get help, to learn pick up and the art of seduction. ME?? I CAME HERE TO HELP! Accept the difference, be wise and take advantage of me experience while you can. Put your ego's aside, I am not going to be around much longer.
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Well, should we manipulate how we speak to change perceptions?

I'm intrigued by this, but I'd like to see a study, rather than just the vague abstraction of "research," to validate the claim.

Interesting.

Is sharing this concept an attempt to try and govern who has the most status on the forums though? It seems a little like that...

Since our only communication is through writing, does that mean we have to establish a pecking order? Once again bringing ego into the equation.

Pennebaker's discovers that those who overuse "I" tend to have lower status. This is obvious. Leaders are busy with the tasks of all the "you's" in his group(s) and low level workers only need to deal with themselves. However, leaders don't use "you's" because they're in power positions. Leaders simply have used "you's" all their lives. They were always concerned with others. They were thinking about the group, its dynamics, and its progress. It is these habits that bring 'leaders' into leadership positions. ("Self Conscious" is his issue)

The trouble with this analysis is that it places leaders and followers in a black or white, good or evil, and/or heaven or hell dichotomy of society.

Leadership is actually a gradient of leading and following which contextually expands or contracts within a social shell layer or several layers of a social shell. This is the same reason why we have a pecking order.