Post by richardsok on Feb 25, 2024 18:20:24 GMT
chang -- If I may, I'll share my take on some of our recent threads. Everyone wants to see the threads active, healthy and -- equally important -- productive to our differing investment perspectives. I suspect in recent months we have fewer active posters, and may be "rubbing elbows" with the same contributors .... leading to some dropping away and others expressing irritation.
I would meekly remind posters that being mildly irked from time to time is the price we pay for being a community. Some contribute more helpfully and amicably than others.
We had healthy and encouraging poster growth for a good long while and I felt you deserved every congratulations for nursing the forum into success. One enormously helpful boost came from yogi with his tireless Barron's contributions. He really IS irreplaceable.... and many discussions would naturally grow out of his weekly summaries.
But now I'm a little worried for BB. Hardly anyone posts about reading or serious films or travel any more. (What a shame.) The Pimco thread is rarely commented on. Most of us avoid politics like the plague. We touch on gold and PMs in only the most cursory fashion. Though I continue lurking daily, I myself have reduced my posting in recent months, sensing I'm sometimes a bit of an oddball around here. (Not the first time I've had that feeling, since kindergarden!)
Easier to suggest than achieve is attracting a few new contributors who would equal the intense interest and valuable experience of our current posters. Some fresh perspectives would not go unwelcome, I think. But how to do it? Ay, there's the rub.
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Let me end this Sunday morning with one constructive suggestion to help reinvigorate the forum. If no one objects, we might create a new thread called OLD REVEALS AND NEW FINDS. This would be an on-going thread and all active posters would be encouraged to reveal one helpful product, service or fact that they know about -- but few others do. Little-known tips could be about investing & spending, of course, but anything else too -- that in some small way might be appreciated by some of the lurkers. I propose we post no less than one hundred reveals and finds in the first month. I'll start with two.
1. When traveling by car, keep an eye out for WAWA gas stations and convenience stores. It is one of the only chains that offers ATM machines without bank fees as well as free air to inflate tires.
2. As you get older, you may find it harder to buy shoes that fit. If so, you might try SKECHERS shoes, which are cut a little wider than normal shoes and sneakers.
I would meekly remind posters that being mildly irked from time to time is the price we pay for being a community. Some contribute more helpfully and amicably than others.
We had healthy and encouraging poster growth for a good long while and I felt you deserved every congratulations for nursing the forum into success. One enormously helpful boost came from yogi with his tireless Barron's contributions. He really IS irreplaceable.... and many discussions would naturally grow out of his weekly summaries.
But now I'm a little worried for BB. Hardly anyone posts about reading or serious films or travel any more. (What a shame.) The Pimco thread is rarely commented on. Most of us avoid politics like the plague. We touch on gold and PMs in only the most cursory fashion. Though I continue lurking daily, I myself have reduced my posting in recent months, sensing I'm sometimes a bit of an oddball around here. (Not the first time I've had that feeling, since kindergarden!)
Easier to suggest than achieve is attracting a few new contributors who would equal the intense interest and valuable experience of our current posters. Some fresh perspectives would not go unwelcome, I think. But how to do it? Ay, there's the rub.
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Let me end this Sunday morning with one constructive suggestion to help reinvigorate the forum. If no one objects, we might create a new thread called OLD REVEALS AND NEW FINDS. This would be an on-going thread and all active posters would be encouraged to reveal one helpful product, service or fact that they know about -- but few others do. Little-known tips could be about investing & spending, of course, but anything else too -- that in some small way might be appreciated by some of the lurkers. I propose we post no less than one hundred reveals and finds in the first month. I'll start with two.
1. When traveling by car, keep an eye out for WAWA gas stations and convenience stores. It is one of the only chains that offers ATM machines without bank fees as well as free air to inflate tires.
2. As you get older, you may find it harder to buy shoes that fit. If so, you might try SKECHERS shoes, which are cut a little wider than normal shoes and sneakers.
