Monday Morning Rules of the Board posted on Thursday
With the increased volume of useless posts to wade through, I missed that the Rules had not been posted as usual on Sunday night or Monday morning and hope that Saul is well.
To all newcomers and those who have followed this board but forgot the Rules, please take a moment to review them. If you haven’t read Bear’s post, please do, https://discussion.fool.com/if-you-care-about-this-board-3497584….
Our board has rules. It’s not like other boards. It is these Rules that keeps this board so valuable to you, and to all of us. If you don’t follow the rules your posts are likely to be deleted, and if necessary you may even get barred from the board. That’s just the way it is. Life is hard sometimes ().
What We DO on Saul’s Board
Bear (PaulWBryant), Matt (XMF BreakerForce), Benjamin (Locke), I. M. (imyoung), Lenny (ldigout), Cedric (CompoundingCed), and Chris (mess7777) will each take some of the load of running the board off Saul’s shoulders, and act as Assistant Board Managers. Please make their job easier by obeying our basic rules:
We are grateful the Motley Fool hosts this board and we will do nothing to jeopardize this by posting information from the paid services.
We DO discuss and analyze individual growth stocks
We DO discuss our philosophy why we invest in them
We DO bring new companies to this board, elaborating what the company does, citing pertinent financial information, such as revenue growth, margins, total addressable market, competition, etc.
We DO discuss our month-end portfolios, and especially why we chose our stocks and why we made changes. (Just a list of stocks and positions with no discussion doesn’t hack it).
We DO ask ourselves if our post adds anything of value to the discussion. One-liners usually don’t add anything worthwhile.
We DO check if someone has already started a thread (on just released earnings, for instance), before starting a new thread.
We DO disagree with posters in a courteous manner
We DO use “E-Mail This Reply to the Author” (unclick Post this Reply to the Board, click E-Mail This Reply to Author) for brief thank-yous or off-topic commentary or questions
We DO study “Saul’s Knowledgebase”, “How I Pick a Company to Invest In,” and “Why My Investing Criteria Have Changed,” and “Why It Really is Different.” Links are found to the right when in individual post-mode (it is not visible in thread-mode)
The Don’ts:
No blabbing investment information from paid TMF or other paid services
No cluttering up the board with one-line, meaningless posts
No basic investment questions
No portfolio management discussions. We put them on the Portfolio Management Board, discussion.fool.com/portfolio-management-100153.aspx
No technical analysis
No option trading or other discussions of using extreme leverage, such as margins.
No value or turn-around investing
No income investing
No bond investing
No market-timing
No market predictions of Investor Business Daily or anyone else
No long lists of what stocks have done in the past week
No macroeconomics
No cannabis discussions
No Tesla posts (too contentious a subject)
No non-investing subjects
No angry attacks against posters with opposing opinions
NO Politics !!!
Thanks for your cooperation!
Saul and Assistant Board Managers