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Join in on the discussion with other like-minded investors in our community forums. Learn about the fundamental investing methodology and participate in educational workshops in the Investing forums, stay up-to-date on StockCentral news and make suggestions to the StockCentral team in Central Square, and discuss your favorite stock or recent market news in our A-Z ticker-based forums.
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kowitz
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| 09/19/2006 9:17 AM |
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I'm not sure I understand the value of having so many boards devoted to individual stocks.
Until the community is very large, traffic will be low to non-existant
on most, valuable posts will be spread very, very thin and anything of
meaning will be difficult to find. A single board for Stocks with
examples of how to form a topic about a stock: Home Depot (HD), makes
more sense to me.
Also, you're going to allow free accounts for a period of time.
Policing those boards if someone decides to start spamming them with
ads isn't going to be fun.
What about cross-over topics? HDvsLowes ... do you put them in HD
or Lowes? If someone is studying Lowes and the discussion is
actually on the HD board ...
What about a topic that wants to talk about an Industry? You have
Clubhouse, Classroom and Toolshed, none of which really say "talk about
investing in general here." Pick a company in that industry and
put it in that Forum?
I'm not trying to be difficult. :) I'm just worried that folks
will see 2000 boards with 1 or 2 posts and walk away. Instead you
could have 1 board with dozens of valuable posts right out of the gate
and expand into more boards as needed.
Enough of my .02 this morning ...
Kurt Kowitz
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Gary Simms
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| 09/26/2006 9:03 AM |
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The alphabetical listing makes the stocks easy to locate, but it would be nice if they could be grouped by industry with a separate folder for discussions of that industry as a whole.
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postman
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| 09/26/2006 10:08 AM |
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Unfortunately, there's no single right answer to the Forum Organization question. We've gone with a straight alphabetical listing initially, because it lends itself to the ticker-based discussion we in particular want to foster.
Grouping by sector is certainly a possibility, with the tickers listed alphabetically therein.
As currently organized, an industry discussion could certainly take place in The Classroom forum. |
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host
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| 09/26/2006 10:31 AM |
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> Grouping by sector is certainly a possibility, with the tickers listed
> alphabetically therein.
With some software upgrades (and we are somewhat constrained by the
forum software and the software developer's interest and schedule) we
can also construct a set of "Industry Forums" and with a general
industry discussion forum and links to the companies that occupy that
industry.
Doing this in a way that makes it "automatable" is the trick.
I'll put that on the "longer term" schedule ...
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