Will this board be considered “Financial” by TMF?
Larry
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Hey Larry,
I don’t work with the community team and aren’t privy to their plans…that said my read on this is the non-financial boards they are talking about are the categories under “Your Life” you see listed on the Boards Home page. I could see them using this change as an opportunity to close dormant boards though. But, I don’t think they would be closing anything under Investing Strategies unless the board has veered off topic to a degree that it is unrecoverable.
Again, I don’t have inside knowledge on this change. I’m just a longtime MI follower that hopes we are around for years to come.
-barry
TMFQue
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Will this board be considered “Financial” by TMF?
We’re good to keep on going. You can tell by the fact that there is no purge notice at the top of page.
DB2
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You are good. This board is not closing.
Fuskie
Who notes DB2 is correct about about the lack of notice, though apparently there was initially a problem where all boards had the notice, but it was fixed…
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I wonder what costs are being saved by closing boards. What does it take to keep something interact-able with that’s already well up and running?
Eric Hines
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I wonder what costs are being saved by closing boards. What does it take to keep something interact-able with that’s already well up and running?
Guessing this is about politics and censorship not money.
GD_
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I wonder what costs are being saved by closing boards. What does it take to keep something interact-able with that’s already well up and running?
Perhaps a desire to reduce clutter, to prevent the appearance of a run down neighborhood where a lot of houses are boarded up.
Elan
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It’s not really any of those reasons. The boards have long needed a refresh, upgrades and such. A few years ago, the TMF Community instituted a clean-up of sorts, archiving boards each quarter that had not had posts in the last 24 months. A test has been underway with MF Options of a new boards platform, and TMF is getting ready to implement that solution in the freemium and premium communities. I was not in the room where it happened, but I am guessing this is an effort to simplify the process of converting existing boards to the new platform.
Fuskie
Who notes some of the boards being closed are quite active and popular, so it really is about being non-financial…
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I am sorry but this what you write at the end of your post:
Fuskie
Who notes some of the boards being closed are quite active and popular, so it really is about being non-financial…
clearly contradicts this at the beginning:
It’s not really any of those reasons. The boards have long needed a refresh, upgrades and such.
If it were only about “refresh, upgrades and such” it wouldn’t be about “being non-financial”. So pure logic dictates that this is wrong (and confirms for me what’s the real reason).
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I’m not sure where or what pure logic is, but the company made the decision to only bring forward the financial (Your Money) discussion boards to the new platform. The decision was not based on popularity or activity but simply which category they fell into.
The boards did need a refresh, TMF has settled on a platform they have been testing with MF Options, and decided, for whatever reason, to convert only the financial discussion boards. There are undoubtedly internal considerations that went into their decision that I nor anyone else will ever know of.
The important thing is that this board will not be closed.
Fuskie
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