No. of Recommendations: 37
My God, crypto and options strategy on Berkshire. That seems to be all I am reading about up and down this doggone board. Why not listen to Warren Buffett and just stay put. Inactivity is an excellent strategy. Options are complicated for the vast majority of us on this board and requires enormous learning curve for those who are not comfortable with option strategies -- lots of decisions to make in getting in and getting out. I didn't want to speak up, but buy and hold is something to savor and to respect. Sorry, but I'm getting a bit annoyed with the direction of this board. Sure, I have the ignore feature, but I do highly respect the regular posters on here and will not resort to that feature. But c'mon guys, let's get back on topic.
The paradox is that while Buy & Hold and inactivity is an excellent investment strategy, it's not a good strategy to keep a discussion board going. Posts keep a board alive! Inactivity may be a good investment strategy, but posting inactivity will kill this board!
Let's say everyone agreed to strictly limit discussion to buy & hold only. There won't be much left to talk about other than once every 3 months when the quarterly earnings release comes out. Are we all gonna regroup only once every 3 months to discuss? That's not gonna happen!
I come here every day because I can reliably expect a bunch of new posts. I also don't have time to look into crypto or options, but that's okay. Read it if you are still interested or ignore; either way it's not a big deal. When in fact there is something to talk about Berkshire, those discussions are definitely happening.
The bigger deal would be if the volume of posts started going down resulting in people showing up less frequently which in turn would lead to even fewer posts. The negative feedback loop will eventually lead to the board's demise.
Sure I can see the other extreme where the signal to noise ratio is extremely low and most posts are OT. But that is certainly not the case here. The volume of posts is barely at sustenance level.
The Berkshire board in particular has a good network effect going. Let's not kill it by discouraging posts. I view it as a place where Berkshire shareholders gather to discuss issues, but not necessarily limited to Berkshire.
