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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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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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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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> 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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