Welcome to EJMR! You will quickly notice several common types of posters. To save you the trouble, I thought I would map from what they post to their true identities.
1. The susperstar who mocks publications in journals like RESTAT, JME, or IER. He knows that pubs outside the top 5 hardly make an impact. If he can't make RESTUD, he flushes it down the toilet.
-There is a 97% chance that he is actually a first or second year grad student who has never published anything. In seven years his heart will race as he sees that the Canadian Journal of Economics has reached a decision on his job market paper. After all, it could be the big hit he needs for tenure at Central Michigan.
2. The "alpha" bro who has figured out that chicks love guys who act like assholes. He hates "betas,"' and loves pointing out posters who are beta.
-99% chance he is actually an aspie virgin. Within the next 10 years, he will break down and finally lose his virginity to a hooker. He does act like an asshole around women. But rather than sleep with him, they just put him on their lists of potential rapists to avoid.
3. "Demand side here." He is an accomplished professor who has somehow achieved unilateral control over his department's job search. He is quick to totally disqualify a candidate based on vague signals such as drinking wine during dinner, publishing outside the top 5, using word, or not drinking wine at dinner. Despite his accomplishments, he is somehow always able to respond to questions about the market on EJMR within 10 minutes.
-92% chance that he is a third year grad student who is being ignored by the faculty in his department. Desperately hopes that his superior social skills and mastery of the market's details will make up for his ghastly research agenda and spare him from a job at Southern Alabama. Will end up at Southern Alabama.
4. Chill, fratty industry bro living the dream and soon to making $250K. Figured out that academia is for suckers and gleefully chose to go into the private sector despite his dumb ass advisor's pleas that he could be a star at a top 20 place.
-98% chance that he failed the market. Works to convince himself that 5 years of grad school will eventually pay off despite all signs that his job requires no more than a BA. Would be surprised to learn that his MBA boss is already thinking of firing him and replacing him with a team player who will STFU about "engineineity and other stats crap"' and just give him the god damn correlations that he asked for.
5. The guy who worries about doing anything "prole." He has refined tastes in film, food, and drink.
-93% chance that his modal Friday night involves World of Warcraft and Mountain Dew. May be friends with #2. He tried scotch once but it burned his mouth and now he drinks Mike's Hard Lemonade when his is looking for a wild time
6. The deranged, mentally ill megaposter posting 50 times a day about poop, leftists, libs, and orthodox Jews.
-Actually this guy is exactly who he says he is. Bats**t insane and borderline retarded.
7. The bodybuilder with impressive statistics on his bench, squats, etc..
-95% chance he can't even bench 100 pounds. His total lack of dedication to physical fitness has made home less likely to be a successful bodybuilder and more likely to be a Nobel prize winning labor economist.