WSO has gone to shit

I feel like over 70% of the posts on this site nowadays are shitposts / trolling / giving awful, misleading information.

It's extremely tiring to see constant posts like this (https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/investment-…) or this (https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/investment-…), along with bank rankings every 5 minutes. 

What happened to the site that used to give qualify information prior to Covid? 

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What really bothers me is that this trend will push out the old guard of constant but helpful posters, and disincentive future good posters as this place is starting to degrade into 4Chan shitpost quality. Really hope this doesn't happen as this forum helped me to secure my internship and later on my FT re-recruiting when I ended up not getting a return... Couldn't have done it without the quality advice from the genuine posters 

 

The bigger problem is that a lot of the shit posts aren't good.  There are a few quality shit-posters on here, and it would be tolerable if everyone else was their caliber

I come from down in the valley, where mister when you're young, they bring you up to do like your daddy done
 

Yes, it seems that there used to be a lot of AMA (Ask Me Anything) posts by professionals who were willing to answer questions regarding their jobs, career paths and career advice. Last year or two, I've noticed there are virtually none of these, and those were arguably the most helpful aspect to WSO. 

 

I don't think issue is there are "no" helpful posts; it's just that they seem to be far fewer and further between.  

 

I really only started frequenting this site at end of freshman year (rising junior now) and even I’ve been feeling the same way. Used to be one of the best resources for finance.

 

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