Breelander wrote:Wizard wrote:Whenever I think about it I do come to the conclusion that HYP-P should be a very quiet backwater with little activity...
It was consistently one of the most active boards on TMF....
Board Name EPIC Last 24 Hour Total
High Yield - HYP Practical 24/4/15 07:45 39
Does Anybody Know? 24/4/15 06:23 36
Investment Strategies 24/4/15 07:12 25
Cars & Driving 24/4/15 07:36 18
Help with this Blasted Computer! 24/4/15 07:13 17
https://web.archive.org/web/20150424065 ... opwhat=brd...and with a total of 36,671 posts has been the most active board here on TLF too. DAK comes in at 12,614.
I can’t dispute the facts on that, but that was a while ago when presumably there would have been more to discuss in terms of bottoming our practical matters. Now nearly twenty years on from the original TMF articles is there as much of substance to discuss?
Also, how many of the regulars that posted then are active on HYP-P on TLF now? And have all those that don’t post been replaced by ‘new blood’? I think the answer to both is no. Who are the core posters there: Arborfield, IDPickering, TJH, Monabri, Dod, IanHHughes? Who have I missed?
Plus I think of as the core HYP-P participants seem to be pretty clear on what they think is and is not on topic for the board and that surely means a degree of certainty as to what HYP-P is intended to cover on TLF. Surely the sort of topics that would be core to HYP-P are:
What do people think about this new purchase / top-up candidate?
What do people think about selling out of / trimming this holding?
Here is a post reporting what I have done recently in my HYP?
Yes there may be other topics that crop up on occasion, maybe like:
Do people think my income reserve is sufficient?
But they will not be the bread and butter of HYP.
Also, and I hesitate to add this point as some will see it at an attempt at provocation, but one has to look beyond the volume of posts. If one takes out the arguments and off topic posts, the posts that just link to other boards and the posts with no substance which something like ‘I agree with what was said by another poster’, what does the volume of posts look like then?