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kowitz  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:17:52 AM(UTC)
kowitz

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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  
#2 Posted : Tuesday, September 26, 2006 5:03:01 AM(UTC)
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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.

postman  
#3 Posted : Tuesday, September 26, 2006 6:08:11 AM(UTC)
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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.

host  
#4 Posted : Tuesday, September 26, 2006 6:31:52 AM(UTC)
host

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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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