Comments on: Help me make a decision, please!

By: w maddox

w maddox — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:17:33 +0000

As far as I know your site is the only counter balance to the ever increasing promo’s we are inundated with. There is a growing realization (and industry) devoted to fooling the public into sending their money to skillful shysters using “copywriters” who are trained to use key trigger words. I am not against salesmanship if it is for honest products…but these guys are just out to separate people from their $. Your site is the only one to help us against this increasing tidal wave. Whatever format you choose is fine …just don’t quit! Thanks a million

By: S Bower

S Bower — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:06:53 +0000

You write a column asking for feedback and ideas about adding a new forum and even in the responses you get comments like those from post #31 – it reads like the bad posts on the Yahoo financial forums. I started paying because I enjoy reading your articles. I love free but it’s worth the five bucks a month to me to help ensure you don’t go away and to keep ads to a minimum!!! As many others say, YOU are the reason for the success of your site – whatever you do please make sure to keep it that way.
I hope you find the right solution that allows you to weed through the newsletter teaser alerts you receive. I look forward to your email at work every day, no matter what time it comes and I would hate to think you might miss one because you are too busy policing the forum and keeping it free of spam, pumpers/dumpers, and all other manner of crap.

By: Spencer White

Spencer White — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:05:10 +0000

Ditto #6. Also, I think you should be paid; I think I owe you a “donation”. I did make one a couple of months ago. But the paying part is a great practice to use to keep people who don’t have anything to do from junking your outstanding site up.

By: Richard Dierks

Richard Dierks — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:58:46 +0000

You are providing a great service. The amount of time you have to devote to the site can be overwelming if as we know you have other obligations. If other bloggers can join in it may allow you to spent less time but still provide the continuation of a very good informative site.

By: Jeff Laurie

Jeff Laurie — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:17:25 +0000

It’s probably a good idea — Motley Fool has a thriving discussion area, and people in general love to share information online — but you should be prepared to spend time moderating, weeding out the weirdos and off-subject posts, and looking for PR spin from interested (prejudicial) parties. It may not be a trivial amount of time, because I suspect your discussion area will be heavily used because you have such fan base.