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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: luxmain   😊 😞
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Subject: Suggestion re: stock board structure.
Date: 02/05/23 7:11 AM
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I would suggest just two boards: "Berkshire" and "Everything Else" would be a more rational way to structure the stock-specific discussion boards.

I appreciate the effort to imitate the layout of classic TMF. But famously, 99% of the boards on TMF were completely empty, and thus no one checked them for new posts, and thus they remained empty.

The point of a discussion board is to have discussion.

If the structure of the boards causes people to be discouraged from a) posting b) looking for posts to read, then the structure is wrong.

For example:

Blackswanny writes on OT Meta eps and outlook

I would suggest if a particular stock gets a huge amount of attention over the long term in "Everything else", then a new board can be created at that point.

In fact I would argue that 'new TMF' is more successful in this regard for both discoverability and engagement, by grouping all stock posts on a single board, but with tags for the stock name.

lux
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