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Perhaps I'm being an idiot; if so, please do not hesitate to inform me as such. Regardless, while I much prefer the google search module to the previous one, I have a small gripe. I recently searched "Fannie," hoping to find the most recent discussion of the troubled government...
Search Feature
114 years 41 weeks ago
by BlueHorseShoe
4 years 39 weeks ago
by SBE
When I first found this site I was in the middle of my first year and I found it really helpful, however, as of late the quality of this site has depreciated. I am not sure if this is because the site became more popular so the number of non investment bankers rose disproportionally or if the more...
The Status of WSO
574 years 43 weeks ago
by tbroker
4 years 40 weeks ago
by ideating
Just as an FYI, tonight/tomorrow at 1:00am EST the site will be brought offline to upgrade to a later version of Drupal (5.9). After this upgrade is complete we will also have the added benefit of QuickButtons which allow the user to access much more info / content with the push of a few buttons. ...
Warning: Site Down Tonight at 1:00am EST to about 3am EST
34 years 41 weeks ago
by WallStreetOasis.com
4 years 41 weeks ago
by WallStreetOasis.com
Patrick, This has been brought up before but I thought I would rehash it since nobody has really pushed for it lately. I think a lot of the malcontent with the state of the website has alot to do with the quality of the threads as well as the content of the posting within them (and arguably,...
Plus / Minus Points On Posts
34 years 42 weeks ago
by GameTheory
4 years 42 weeks ago
by pchoo
As you might have noticed, we just launched a new theme for WallStreetOasis.com. Please let me know if you have any problems / comments and/or suggestions. I will try to be as responsive as possible to fix any...
New WSO Theme
104 years 47 weeks ago
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4 years 43 weeks ago
by b4f
the following discussion resulted from the deletion of 2 threads (see appendix) When you personally manipulate selective threads in accordance to your "rules" yet fail to extend such regulation across the board, you are simply indulging yourself and by doing so you undermine the...
stop the censorship, here is my push for objective moderation of these boards
144 years 43 weeks ago
by b4f
4 years 43 weeks ago
by ginNtonic
To whom it may concern, I think another section for Corporate Law professionals would be a nice...
Corporate Law
04 years 51 weeks ago
by gomi
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I'm not sure where this goes, but is there any reason why I can't load this page at work? It used to work just fine, and the site isn't blocked at my firm, it just won't load? The top will have that tagline of "Wall Street Oasis...where monkeys come to play" but the...
Site problems?
55 years 3 weeks ago
by HerSerendipity
5 years 3 weeks ago
by smuguy97
Is there any way to not put up ads with...
Ads with sound
75 years 4 weeks ago
by ideating
5 years 4 weeks ago
by GameTheory
i think wallstreetoasis is great, and an awesome resource; however, sometimes the ibanking forum gets a little too saturated. what i mean by that is, someone just asked a question about valuation methods for luxury goods companies; that post will probably get pushed down by "Rate the best...
separate forum for real bankers
255 years 6 weeks ago
by wallstreetguy25
5 years 4 weeks ago
by CompBanker
I was looking through half a dozen submitted resumes, and all of them were people with years of experience. One of them had a PhD in statistics. My point is, the repetitive, "What do I say in an interview?" question is not be tapping into the potential knowledge that the visitors here...
Not everyone is a college student looking for a job on WSO
45 years 4 weeks ago
by aachimp
5 years 4 weeks ago
by aachimp
I never had this problem until the desert-themed makeover. Every single page takes AT LEAST 5 full seconds to load. At first I thought it was isolated to my computer and home network, but I have tried it from at least 3 or 4 locations and on various browsers (currently on IE). Could you please fix...
Site takes forever to load
25 years 5 weeks ago
by Krakauer
5 years 5 weeks ago
by WallStreetOasis.com
I don't know about you guys but after some site changes, whenever I look at the forums, they are really really squished from both sides. I'm running...
How come everything is so squished now?
35 years 6 weeks ago
by banking321
5 years 6 weeks ago
by WallStreetOasis.com
signed ,stickied, frontpaged...aka read this. Back story: We had a chat, it was awesome, and now we don't anymore :( Just embed an irc channel if it still gives problems....
Petition to bring back the chat.
95 years 6 weeks ago
by fordhammasta
5 years 6 weeks ago
by aachimp
When I go to "recent posts," literally NINETY PERCENT of the threads are financial news headlines, instead of actual DISCUSSION threads. Not only that, they are sometimes double posted - wait, make that QUADRUPLE posted. You have gotten out of control. If I wanted news, I would go to...
Stop posting so many crappy articles
135 years 8 weeks ago
by mark klein MD
5 years 7 weeks ago
by WallStreetOasis.com
It would be amazing if there was a feature that essentially allowed logged in users to bookmark or save their favorite threads for future reference. Oftentimes I'll find a thread that's particularly salient and for lack of a better option, I'll end up bookmarking the specific thread...
Favorite Threads
15 years 7 weeks ago
by srr636
5 years 7 weeks ago
by jgrb17
One thing that I notice a lot of posts starting to pop up have the theme of "how do i excel at my SA role" or "what do SA do". There are a lot of useful information in these threads however they are scattered. Perhaps you could create the ability for a mod to merge the...
Merged threads
05 years 7 weeks ago
by trade4size
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I was thinking that an investing focused forum where we could discuss recent market trends, economic factors, interesting opportunities, etc. would bring a lot of different perspectives to WSO. I would definitely be interested in seeing what my fellow monkeys were investing in, and in sharing my...
Investing Forum
145 years 9 weeks ago
by oasising
5 years 9 weeks ago
by nystateofmind
Does anyone have a complete rundown of how you gain (and lose) banana points? As far as I can tell, it's two points per post, and -2 if you edit one of your posts. What I don't understand is this: after editing one of my posts, I saw the message that I lost two points. However, there...
What's the deal with banana points?
165 years 27 weeks ago
by CaptK
5 years 10 weeks ago
by Frank Slaughtery
For some reason, every time I come to the forums, I get logged out. After I log back in and click a topic or thread, I get logged out again 80% of the time. I don't think its a problem with my cookies or temp files because this problem has never happened on this site, and my log in information...
Logging in problem
65 years 12 weeks ago
by grandpabuzz
5 years 12 weeks ago
by WallStreetOasis.com
Not that I care about having as many bananas as possible, but is the chart on the "Ranking" page outdated? It says 2 bananas for a post and 5 for a new topic, and I am only getting 1 for a post and 2 for a topic. How does it...
What's up with the bananas??
25 years 12 weeks ago
by fedor
5 years 12 weeks ago
by fedor
I think it's the bright blue text. Maybe a more neutral...
new theme hurts my eyes
65 years 12 weeks ago
by aachimp
5 years 12 weeks ago
by WallStreetOasis.com
I noticed today that the "Track" tab has disappeared from users profile pages. I used that tab all the time to track the posts I was contributing too, and see if there were any new messages in them. Bring back the "Track"...
User "Tracking" is Gone!
15 years 12 weeks ago
by CaptK
5 years 12 weeks ago
by WallStreetOasis.com
I keep getting logged out and logged back in when I am navigating the site... not sure what is going on. Recycled cookies, etc....
Cookie problem
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by ideating
5 years 13 weeks ago
by WallStreetOasis.com
The PM's in my inbox which have not yet been read have a subject line of "new". I cannot open them. I thought you should know. Good...
Problem with PM's
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