arrete said:
The most vibrant boards have a variety of postings, anywhere from costs in retirement life to lively discussions about favorite movies. A board that is forced into one mode or one topic is going to have trouble growing. A single topic just can't be that interesting to the majority of members after a while. The boards that grow bring in fresh information and encourage discussion. For instance, I am still waiting for the shoe to drop at the Index Forum, but so far, I haven't been ostracized for have most of my assets at Fido
Ironically, along time ago (in message baord years that is) while at TMF we reached 6000 posts on that IF board. Someone put up a post proclaiming that achievement. Someone else posted that after that many posts about IF's, there wasn't that much more to write about. IIRC, I stopped posting at TMF in Feb 2002, and at that time we were closing in on 30,000 posts. After a few thousand more at the MSN boards before we came to NFB in November 2002, and several thousand more at NFB, I'd say we found quite a bit to talk about for a board forced into just one topic.
But We certainly had help with the increased popularity of ETF's, the mutual fund scandal being publicized, the creation of numerous additional index funds tracking just about any corner of the market you can imagine. We've even discovered a few trolls who either thought they could type some criteria into a free fund screener and select (without their own real money invested, naturally) funds that had performed well in the past, to the ones that were too smart to use index funds, to mutual fund market-timers.
We've also talked about all types of mutual funds, whether managed or passive, authors, journalists, researchers and board members. And as long as someone doesn't degrade one of us, insult us or is just a plain old di**head, we've had a history of talking about it all in an adult manner.
So even though we may be thought of as a bit pigeon-holed, we've continued to flap our gums about something. Well, kept our fingers tappin' is more like it. :D
Bookm
Wall Street investment products suck because it's all about them and their revenue today. It's not about us and our income tomorrow. - Scott Burns