[zdo]

Should I go to ET?
Should we all go to ET?

I ask serious questions I really don’t know the answers to - not ‘set up’ questions – and get no answers. At least at ET, I would get some opinions, spiced with condescending and derogatory flavor, but it would add horizons and angles I hadn’t previously included in my constructs…
Lately, my questions have been about big picture stuff. Maybe I’m just not ‘Lab-ish’ enough. MMS has also intermittently asked a string of big picture questions with sparse response. Is MMS also not ‘lab-bish’ enough?

Or just maybe more of the posting population is beset by shock, ptsd, hunkering down, defensiveness, withdrawal… but traders can’t be zombies! Should we associate with zombies? Hell no! Good traders can’t be zombies! Good traders can’t associate with zombies!

I watch as other posters, usually with a sincere but more fringe/niche methodologies, still get hounded away. The detractors aren’t as overtly abusive as those filling that role at ET or T2W, but they consistently interrupt ‘meetings’ of those really interested… enough to effectively trash threads and drain contributor and reader interest – unless they are fully impassioned of course. It’s particularly sad to watch threads intended to chronicle testing out something that’s new to the OP get trashed for no reason besides it doesn’t jive with the detractor’s world view… Anyway's for me personally it makes it doulbee useless to ever discuss the specifics of edges...

I don’t want to discourage noob threads, issues, questions at all – but the ratio of noob to experienced queries and offerings is getting skewed more and more… basically while TL has always welcomed noobs, I don’t think at its core it was designed as really a noob noob site…

[Tams]

Originally Posted by zdo »

Should I go to ET?
Should we all go to ET?

I ask serious questions I really don’t know the answers to - not ‘set up’ questions – and get no answers. At least at ET, I would get some opinions, spiced with condescending and derogatory flavor, but it would add horizons and angles I hadn’t previously included in my constructs…
Lately, my questions have been about big picture stuff. Maybe I’m just not ‘Lab-ish’ enough. MMS has also intermittently asked a string of big picture questions with sparse response. Is MMS also not ‘lab-bish’ enough?

Or just maybe more of the posting population is beset by shock, ptsd, hunkering down, defensiveness, withdrawal… but traders can’t be zombies! Should we associate with zombies? Hell no! Good traders can’t be zombies! Good traders can’t associate with zombies!

I watch as other posters, usually with a sincere but more fringe/niche methodologies, still get hounded away. The detractors aren’t as overtly abusive as those filling that role at ET or T2W, but they consistently interrupt ‘meetings’ of those really interested… enough to effectively trash threads and drain contributor and reader interest – unless they are fully impassioned of course. It’s particularly sad to watch threads intended to chronicle testing out something that’s new to the OP get trashed for no reason besides it doesn’t jive with the detractor’s world view… Anyway's for me personally it makes it doulbee useless to ever discuss the specifics of edges...

I don’t want to discourage noob threads, issues, questions at all – but the ratio of noob to experienced queries and offerings is getting skewed more and more… basically while TL has always welcomed noobs, I don’t think at its core it was designed as really a noob noob site…

GO !

You will say what Arnold said... " I'll be back "


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[zdo]

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[Tradewinds]

Originally Posted by zdo »

Should I go to ET?
Should we all go to ET?

I think that forums in general need to advance to the "Next Gen" (Generation). I've never seen a forum structure that I really liked. To many old threads. To many useless posts. To difficult to find information. To many people with an agenda. To many people with no agenda. lol.

I'd actually like to be able to delete my own posts. There may be times when I look at an old post and think, "That was kind of stupid". lol I may want to delete my own posts. But that's just a simple example.

Forums really need to figure out what motivates people to visit the site, and provide an incentive to do so. The "Thanks", the "Likes" are good, but I'd like to see a better rating system. Which brings up another thought. I don't know the specific "Thanks" that I got from someone unless I go back to the post and happen to see it. The "Likes" show up on my page which is great, but I'd like to know what posts I get thanked on also.

I don't understand why every time I click on a Blog from the Homepage it tells me it's been removed? If it's been removed, then why list it on the homepage? Is it that hard to fix? There aren't any members who know anything about coding webpages? It seems like there isn't really much member involvement in the site. One goal might be to give members a way to feel involved and invested in the site.

[Do Or Die]

Originally Posted by Tradewinds »

If it's been removed, then why list it on the homepage?

TL is a much advanced site (technically, the features it offers). One of my friend started a niche forum, so I know what goes in building a site like this. Also I do not see any error message while accessing blogs.

[MadMarketScientist]

Originally Posted by Tradewinds »

I don't understand why every time I click on a Blog from the Homepage it tells me it's been removed? If it's been removed, then why list it on the homepage? Is it that hard to fix?

We are in the process of removing the Blogs all together, thus that's why we haven't put any effort into fixing those issues. But thanks for the feedback about the HP, we will address that shortly

thx
MMS

[MadMarketScientist]

Hi,

Come on its not all that bad is it? Post counts have been on a steady rise since May, although Sept is a little slow, as was last Sept. But overall the activity\traffic on the site is growing. We are definitely not the size of ET or T2W but there are some great threads over here. What would you like to see different?

thx
MMS

[zdo]

MMS, why are you removing the blogs?