Users (including me) often post technical questions related to financial analysis and what not, that are sometimes not specific to a particular industry. Could we have a separate forum for such kind of questions? It might be good to have them all in one place, unless they're very specific to a particular industry.
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Agree. I suggested this a month or so ago in the suggestion forum but no one seemed interested.
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@"WallStreetOasis.com" @"AndyLouis", thoughts?
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Hey Oreos & Others, appreciate the continued lobbying for this. :-)
I hear you, I'm just trying to make sure we aren't creating extra / superfluous forums. The list you highlighted on that thread you linked to is a grand total of 12 threads... can we get to 300 to seed the forum?
I finally caved and created a distinct "Investing, Macro & Economics forum" after much lobbying from several users and it's one of the least used.
How many technical questions / threads could we find to put here to justify an entire forum. We allow users to bookmark threads that they like, creating a library of sorts, so is an entirely new forum necessary here?
Again, my resistance is purely out of organizational structure, etc. If someone asks a technical / theoretical trading question, should that go in the S&T forum or the Technical forum? Then what is left over for the industry forums? We've already pulled (or tried to pull) most of the career / job seeking questions into a distinct "Get a job" career forum, so that has cleaned up the ibanking forum somewhat, but we need to do a better job at keeping threads in their proper place (getting an intern for this soon).
Adding more and more distinct forums really does lower the likelihood that a user creating new content (especially a new user) will put it in the right place.
Suggestions / thought?
Thanks, Patrick
Why not combine the two, the investing one and a technicals one? There would be a lot of overlap. To the point that it's not utilised, I would say that people need force feeding. They will go to the legacy forums out of habit. For example, i just looked at the Trading forum (i usually only navigate through Recent) and it had about 5 threads within the first two pages that would qualify for the Investing forum.
Also, you're really saying that it's used less than the Fashion forum?
Bookmarking threads isn't the point, refer back to my point of an active resource in my OP.
I have no idea about how to make websites, so forgive my ignorance, but could the site be set up as a filter? I.e., you'd have one "forum" which would act the current Recent and by applying filters you could get to what you want, hence each tread wouldn't have to "belong" to one distinct forum, but users could search through using filtered (e.g., Get A Job, PE). You could create additional filters which would never justify a forum (e.g., Europe).
Anyway, enough procrastinating, i really need to pass CFA III.
Chiming in to support the idea of a technicals forum.
Ideally we'd have an IB forum that was focused on work in an IB (whether technicals, politics etc) and that would be clearly separate from all the threads from people wanting to get into IB.
I appreciate we've recently been through the intern interview season that causes a flood of the latter sort of topics, but it does dilute the value of WSO for me to have to wade through hundreds of "Should I send a thank you e-mail to my interviewers?!?!" topics to find a handful of discussions that are actually interesting and contain majority of posts from people within the industry and have an informed view.
Ideally the IB forum would be more focused on IB practitioner topics (eg technicals, discussion on bonus season) and the job seekers would post job seeking questions to "Get a Job", but could still read and post questions/make non-ignorant comments on the IB forum.
The only way I could see this happening is with active moderation of the forums, with a moderator policing the relevancy of content and relocating threads to the appropriate forum. That works well in some forums, but I suspect it requires a very broad user base produces reliable volunteers for that role and is not feasible on WSO.
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I appreciate we've recently been through the intern interview season that causes a flood of the latter sort of topics, but it does dilute the value of WSO for me to have to wade through hundreds of "Should I send a thank you e-mail to my interviewers?!?!" topics to find a handful of discussions that are actually interesting and contain majority of posts from people within the industry and have an informed view.
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I find the most effective way to use WSO is by subscribing to handful of (usually certified) users whose posts and industry experiences I found relevant. I don't even look at the WSO homepage or recent posts much. By going through my feeds, I manage to find all the topics of interest to me without getting distracted by all the other irrelevant threads.
Thanks. I'll try that approach.
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