Aside from people who will be leaving the investment-related boards because their sense of betrayal by TMF will have destroyed their desire to participate in what’s left…
Justifying this earthquake move by the TMF powers-that-be by positing that this is “after all why the Fool is here” misses the essence of what is happening… This really breaks my heart. ~ sheila727
The following was posted by bighairymike last week in response to a thread that basically argued that deleting boards was a cost saving measure. I am reposting his entire post because it is worth holding onto this explanation:
Being an IT guy myself, I can appreciate the complexities to migrate and/or reformat data to a new database. I can also assume that TMF has done a ton of programming to accommodate the data migration. But once that code has been written, it can be applied to 100, 200, even 500 boards with little incremental effort. So I think claiming massive additional effort to migrate the social boards has little to do with the real reason. My two cents. https://discussion.fool.com/and-the-work-has-already-been-done-b…
And this I believe reinforces the posts of Sheila727 and Tuni in this thread.
The point? TMF is taking an unjustified huge risk here with this move!
-=Ajax=-