Stock Gumshoe

The people have spoken, and 75% or so of my reader poll respondents said they want to at least give a forum a try. So let’s do it.

As I noted earlier in the week, I was looking for a way to help all of you who have great teaser solutions share them with your fellow investors without having to get them filtered through my slow brain — I can’t do much more than a half dozen decent posts a week.

So, in case any of you want to try it I’ve launched a very simple forum that we can adapt to whatever use people would like. There are over a thousand very active readers of the Gumshoe around the world, a couple hundred of whom expressed interest in a forum, and I’m happy to adjust this as you like (I’ve had a request for an Australia-only folder, for example, which we can probably easily do if there’s interest).

Here’s the forum (I’ll put up a link at the top of the site soon):

http://oneguysinvestments.com/gumshoe/

(You’ll notice that it’s hosted by my other site, One Guy’s Investments — sorry, it was cheaper that way.)

Here are the rules:

Membership is automatic and doesn’t require my approval. I can remove you if you become a problem, however. If this grows beyond a small group, I may exert more control over the membership.

Respect copyright — that means no copying and pasting whole ads or emails into the forums. Just quote, please, or provide links. Yes, email and advertising is copyrighted.

Be nice. Seriously.

Let me know if you want a new category and I’ll start it up. So far, the categories are thus:

General — for any sleuthing stuff, stocks you’ve found or can’t find, or things that the Gumshoe has ignored because he can’t figure them out or thinks they’re insoluble.

Recommendations — for you to recommend investments. You can even tout your own stocks in this category if you want, but do not do it anywhere else on the boards. I’d avoid this category if I were you, but I thought we should have a place where people can “sell” their own investments just like the newsletters do. If you submit, “buy XXX now it’s going to the moon!” I feel sorry for you but will allow it in this folder. If you write it in another folder where it can irritate the rest of us, no more forum for you.

Newsletter Experiences — I hear via email from a lot of you who like/hate/regret/adore the newsletters you’ve subscribed to in the past. Interesting info — let’s share it with everyone, since it doesn’t do much good for the consumers of the world in my email box.

So … that’s where we stand so far. I’ll let it rip for a while and see if there’s really any interest, and if we need new rules or rearranging. Let me know if you have any ideas.

And as I noted when I brought this up: This will not change the Gumshoe site itself, this is totally separate and I’ll still be doing my half-dozen or so sleuthing projects a week, as time allows, and sharing what little wit or wisdom I have with all of you. You guys are wonderful readers and you have great ideas to share — let’s share them.

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