Hello readers.
Been following WSO for a couple years and it saddens me sometimes to see silly ass posts that take away from the purpose of this site. A few examples:
1) Asking for advice on fashion...*Man the fuck up and ask a friend or family whether you look like a dumb-ass in suspenders with square-toed shoes and no socks. I can't stand to see shit like this sometimes.
2)Asking for advice on girls...*Grab a set and either consult with your friends/read GQ/go to pick-up forums...but please...don't post on a Wall Street/finance oriented website on advice on dealing with women. I'm really biting my tongue here but come on guys, is it really appropriate to ask whether the girl hitting on you at work last week has potential? Want some advice? Start going out and approaching women and you will become savvy after getting rejected. Moving on...
3) The old what should I do: BB Ops or MM/Boutique IB? *This is not to hate on anyone that works in operations. But seriously guys, get experience that will be valuable to you in the future and where you will learn. The prestige bullshit has got to stop at a certain point. Relevant/front-office experience will trump ops (if front-office work is what you want to end up doing) about 99/100. Ok? So think here and please don't waste our time by yearning for our validation.
4) Asking if your experience and credentials will set you up nicely for business school...I understand if you feel like WSO is appropriate but honestly, very few people I feel like either are MBA consultants/adcoms here so why do you think you are going to get good advice.? The exception are those that have gone through the MBA application process....But come on now guys go to Gmatclub.com for your questions as you will get far more valuable input and advice than you would here. And beyond that, do what makes you happy and kill it and quit seeking validation.
5) Coming to WSO to validate your school/career choice. Some of the posts have been legit but I can smell the insecurity a mile away. You don't know how life is going to pan out and a lot of it can be based on your merit and unforeseen shit happening. OK? Did I make the right choice by going to UVA (nothing against UVA), blah blah blah. Who the fuck cares. Live with your choices and make the best of it and have comfort in knowing you probably can't accurately predict what's going to happen. Life is not only about exit opps are rankings and while it's important to take your future seriously I feel like you got to have more to life such as family,friends, social activities, travel, etc.
*There are probably more types of posts that piss me off but I don't want to offend people. The readers/commentariat here can be pretty solid but I feel like I have seen it head downhill the past year and it's disappointing. I'm not shitting on anyone here but I think most agree that WSO would benefit if we got rid of the above-mentioned type of posts.
And to hell with some of you vicious or negative posters here that are downright rude to other members. It's not really cool or brave when you say such things anonymously. Yea I might be coming at previous posters I don't approve of but I think I've been pretty reasonable about it
My favorite so far....."what is it best to look like?"
I'm requesting more success stories and less bullshit....
If I could, 100 silver bananas to you sir. I've also been disappointed with the decline in quality around here over the past year or so. It seems like we've reached a point now where people just come on here to post about whatever they want (funny YouTube videos, etc). I love giving advice and helping people, but I find there are just a lot fewer folks on WSO these days that warrant it. I think I've been coming here for at least 3-4 years, and I've noticed that my posting activity has slowed dramatically lately. I'm not really sure what we can do about it (beyond deleting really inane threads, which I do often), but it would be great if we could get back to some of the more quality content we've had in the past.
Got a future bureaucrat here.
Honestly, if you think about it logically, WSO is maturing in its life cycle. Value add is already here, in the forum archives. You can search most things already, and almost any question you can think of has been asked before.
Now it's just about building community.
....but wait so square toed shoes are ok as long as I have socks? (white ok?)
haha but seriously +1 for the much needed reminder. WSO was drifting from finance to more of a brobible-esque blog
I totally agree with everything you're saying. That having been said, let's add THIS post the the list of posts that wasted my time.
Sorry, bitching about people taking up bandwidth here isn't new buddy
HA. You got a point UFOinsider but I don't totally agree as I think I went about constructively what posts should be abolished. If that amount declines from here on out then hopefully it won't be a waste of time. Sorry if you feel yours was wasted though brother.
Agreed
Well one big improvement would be if people actually put the threads in the right forum, instead of using I-Banking Pullpen as a catch-all.
I guess you guys don't love to see the hilarious stuff people post in Monkeying Around as much as I do.
I'm with Dying's For Fools. People need to stop posting their videos/random shit in industry-specific forums. There's a reason we have a forum for Monkeying Around and Fashion.
As for the b-school thing, it never hurts to get more people's perspectives. There are definitely some people on here that give good advice, and giving decent advice about b-school isn't all that (ie- high GMAT, good work experience, etc).
@ pdres25 - you make a valid point though. I still think that the site admins should require a user to have some minimum number of points to post OR have a 'new user' designation. They might also have their account closed / suspended once their monkey shit to silver banana ratio goes above a certain point. This won't clear everything, but it will filter out a lot of the noise.
Although people should post in the right places, it is not going to make a difference. Think about it - you really don't know whats going to be in a thread unless you click it because of the ambiguous titles(not true for all ofcourrse). Most people click the thread with the most posts because they think it's worthwhile as people are posting on it. It's a self-fullfilling prophecy.
We just have to agree to limit our comments on these kinds of threads and it will solve some of the problems. Ofcourse there will still be trolls posting random stuff but the less attention they get, the likier they are to go away.
hey guys, thanks for the constructive criticism.
As the site has grown, we have struggled at times to keep a balance of "on topic" content and "off topic" content.
I agree we have tilted a bit too far to the "off topic" content and were not strict enough in the last few months banning trolls. I am trying to get more industry professionals blogging on a regular basis so we can at least have a nice steady stream of high quality career-oriented posts on the home page.
Our policy against trolls changed several weeks ago and some of the worst trolls have been banned and we do look at the Silver Banana / Monkey Shit ratio as a good indicator whether a specific user is helpful or just a troll. If you haven't noticed, there are far fewer troll posts the past week or so than there were just 2-3 weeks ago.
In terms of preventing repetitive / annoying threads, if there is a specific industry you would like to focus on you can go to that specific forum and only read threads from there. We have also been making a huge push to improve our FAQ section which is about 100x better than it was just a month ago. While I always told members that this will likely do little to cut down on the repetitive threads (if someone is too lazy to search or doesnt realize the amount of info in the archives, they will still post), it does give our regular users a place to point these users.
Just wanted to chime in so you know that we are working on it.
Thanks, Patrick
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