RE: Haha yes ok I see your point.11 Apr 2020 01:15
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Well you've picked possibly the hardest time to start investing i recon, certainly some bloody good opportunities out there but a lot of the usually sensible investing rules have gone well and truly out of the window, catching quite a lot of people out. Some good money to be made from new money mind, but tricky to know where to spend it. Sure you'll do OK though, you ask some pretty shrude questions.
As for the 'wobbles' the site has been having im not sure its a reason to bail from here at all, its just a matter of refreshing and looking again, inconvienient but hardly a tough thing to do.
Taking people off the board will reduce the input from people which is counter productive to knowledge sharing, and also reduce input from newer people such as yourself, who would be unable to use a private medium without access, whilst also alienating others who already post that cant or dont want to be involved, for all manner of reasons, not just because (anti) social media is the 'modern' way forward for some.
I mentioned on here a day or two ago my thoughts about running an open forum privately, rather than rely on lse, I've done similar before, im guessing before you were born, and I mentioned its biggest drawback of involvement if such a medium is 'closed' down to just joined members, it cannot grow and is unsustainable. A whatsapp group is just a different version of the same thing with the exactly same disadvantages.
As for the chatting about different shares on here , we do that anyway on the glen bb, a lot of the other bb's moan about it but its very common on this one and works well with people sharing news on different companies all the time, you've done it yourself, and i see no reason at all to go off bb to continue that knowledge sharing. But hey im not the glen board police and everyone is free to make up their own minds and do what they want, this is just my opinion and view on your suggestion.
I just dont want to see the many many good posters on here get sucked into going elsewhere unneccasarily because lse has had a wobble for a few days, that would spoil this board and the support and banter that it provides. This is undoutably the most friendly and welcoming bb to all on LSE and long may that continue.