Seriously, 90% of them ask the most irritating, irrelevant questions about business cards or dress code and clog up the main forum with their crap. Give them their own forum unless you want this board to devolve into a college-only board and lose the experience professionals that post on here.
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Agreed.
Are business cards embossed for summer interns?
80%+ of the posters here are no older than college juniors. There are more freshmen posting here than professionals.
This site will continue to cater college students. They can sell interview guides and internship guides to 19 year olds.
Everyone here wants to think that they're getting advice from a second year TMT analyst at GS or whatever, when in reality its some mid west sophomore who's read every vault guide. Good biz move by WSO. If you told all the 50 something old guys on their sex chat rooms that they were talking another old guy instead of Candy the 19 year old nursing student, you wouldn't have much of a business. Its dumb but it is what it is.
WSO's mission is to become the most entertaining and useful finance community online and it is not always easy to maintain this balance. The reality is that 55% of the users are juniors/seniors in college and 45% are professionals (primarily in iBD, S&T and PE).
Do the uninformed, naive "help me" posts get annoying at times? yes. are there still informed professionals on here? absolutely.
WSO was built on the willingness of professionals to help out college students. If we throw them in their own forum how will that decrease the clutter? Better to just ignore the uninformed / naive posts if it is clear they are lazy (ie won't use the search function) or if they irritate you. We always come across this issue around Feb-April during recruiting season but I expect it to die down again over the summer.
I agree we could do a better job moving "job advice" to the Get a Job forum and out of the I-banking forum but I only have a few moderators and it takes time. for that i apologize...it is something we can definitely improve. On that note, anyone want to be a moderator to help me keep the site organized better? I could use the help.
Thanks, Patrick
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One thing with the coding on forum transfers is that it doesn't necessarily clean it up when you move them, it doubles it, as new posts will cause the old thread to be bumped up in the I-banking forum, albeit with the "this thread has been moved title."
Also, I think you'd get the same problem with a "Intern Forum" as you do with the others - people see that the Ibanking one is the most active and assume their topic is vitally important and they'll get the most/best responses by posting in there, when in fact it just guarantees they get bumped down faster.
I think that's why it is important to have more moderators so that as soon as a topic is placed in the wrong area it is moved within the hour. That way, it hasnt dropped much so the fact that it gets bumped doesn't really matter. The problem right now is it takes several hours if not a full day for me and other mods to keep up. I will keep trying to recruit mods to improve this.
Thanks, Patrick
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Hey Patrick,
Thanks for your response and everything you said was on point. I guess having moderators on board is probably the best, and only, way to curtail this issue. Sometimes I log on here and see 3 threads on HR drug policy for summer interns or what tie to wear to work on the front page, and I feel disinclined to return as often. I imagine its the same with more experienced professionals who frequent this site. Whereas, threads like this one: //www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/the-hedge-fund-experience-good-bad-ugly, will keep me coming back for more. Anyways, was just venting really, sorta knew it wasn't a constructive suggestion, lol.
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