Give me your suggestions, complaints and feedback!

[Garpal Gumnut]

A big complaint I have is that there are as many posts on a dawg like PEN in one week as there are on BHP in three months.

Big companies with large price movements are ignored, while small "challenged" stocks are lauded and fought about.

It is a disgrace.

One can make as much on a $20,000 punt on BHP as one can potentially on a similar punt on PEN. Although if punting the latter, one might have ASIC come a calling at such unusual volume.

gg

 

[Joe Blow]

A big complaint I have is that there are as many posts on a dawg like PEN in one week as there are on BHP in three months.

Big companies with large price movements are ignored, while small "challenged" stocks are lauded and fought about.

GG, there is only one way to get more posts in threads on large cap stocks like BHP and that is for people to post in those threads. One thing I know for certain is that discussion generates more discussion. I see it time and time again. A post appears in a thread on a particular stock, then soon after that another post appears, then another. Pretty soon there's an interesting discussion going on. Look at the REX thread in the last 24 hours.

I would love to see more posts in all stock threads. Nothing would make me happier. All it takes is for people to make an effort to update the threads of stocks they follow with new information such as important announcements, some analysis or even something as simple as an interesting question.

One of the arguments for restricting the amount of General Chat threads is that they tend to overwhelm the stock threads simply because of the significantly higher volume of posts. If the amount of posts in stock threads increased substantially, I think you would find most of the complaints about the amount of posts in General Chat threads would largely disappear because the visibility of stock threads would increase and it wouldn't seem as though every second post was in a thread in the General Chat forum.

 

[Julia]

I really enjoy the political threads but I also think there are too many. There are some on going political issues that might warrant a thread of their own (Craig Thomson saga for example) but I think most things that come up could go in either in a Gillard/Government thread or an Abbott/Opposition thread. For me the most annoying thing is when one person posts the latest political news in one of the larger existing threads and someone else starts another thread just for that issue.

I agree with both above points. I'm interested in politics but do get irritated at the provocatively titled threads. This sort of thing doesn't lead to thoughtful discussion and is just inflammatory. There will always be rusted on voters for both main parties, I understand that, but the apparent refusal to apply any objectivity is tedious.

That said, I'm not bothered by any threads about anything. If it doesn't interest me I just ignore it.
So whatever format the majority want is OK with me.

 

[pixel]

My favoured option would be a "New Stock Posts" option on every menu bar.
I guess that could be most easily achieved either by adding a new Search item, or by adding a user preference that would modify the current "New Posts" script.

Alternatively, I'd vote for a reduction of general and political threads. One thread each for "Labor Bashing", "Greens Bashing", Libs Bashing", even "Religion Bashing" would seem enough. Self restraint doesn't seem to work, as the proliferation of new "XXX for PM" shows. Those that need to, can easily "subscribe" to those threads without cluttering the list of new posts for the community at large.

 

[Ves]

Personally i would like to just see 3 or 4 political threads: Liberal, Labor, Greens, Political News; basically all the existing discussions fit within that. Whenever there is a new piece of political news there is no need for a new thread to be created as it could just go under one of those 4 threads.

This means those that just want to talk politics can stay in those threads and those who want to talk stocks/economics have a much cleaner view.

I think that this is probably the most favourable approach to me - it's not so much about curtailing the political discussion, it's more about making it more concentrated and organised.

Joe - I like what you've done by taking the "general chat forum" posts off the main page, but I still think it is handy showing them on the "today's posts" function.

 

[burglar]

Happy with your judgement, Joe!

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

My favoured option would be a "New Stock Posts" option on every menu bar.
I guess that could be most easily achieved either by adding a new Search item, or by adding a user preference that would modify the current "New Posts" script.

Alternatively, I'd vote for a reduction of general and political threads. One thread each for "Labor Bashing", "Greens Bashing", Libs Bashing", even "Religion Bashing" would seem enough. Self restraint doesn't seem to work, as the proliferation of new "XXX for PM" shows. Those that need to, can easily "subscribe" to those threads without cluttering the list of new posts for the community at large.

No room for Libertarian, Nonconformist and Bicycle Riders then?

gg

 

[sails]

Personally i would like to just see 3 or 4 political threads: Liberal, Labor, Greens, Political News; basically all the existing discussions fit within that. Whenever there is a new piece of political news there is no need for a new thread to be created as it could just go under one of those 4 threads.

This means those that just want to talk politics can stay in those threads and those who want to talk stocks/economics have a much cleaner view.

Good suggestion, Prawn, although it would be difficult to know which thread at times as labor and greens got married but they might part company at some stage...

But I do agree that it would become more organised if there are less threads, however, perhaps a few more categories than what you have suggested.

 

[IFocus]

Personally i would like to just see 3 or 4 political threads: Liberal, Labor, Greens, Political News; basically all the existing discussions fit within that. Whenever there is a new piece of political news there is no need for a new thread to be created as it could just go under one of those 4 threads.

Disagree there are many aspects to politics and endless arguments if you are interested in political dialogue.

If you take away the various threads you take away the various aspects.

This means those that just want to talk politics can stay in those threads and those who want to talk stocks/economics have a much cleaner view.

If its bad for Joes business then cull if not its easy to ignore political discussion.

I was disappointed the other day when Kennas moderated a new thread I started to bash Abbott and then another government bashing thread started up without any problems such is life in a forum its not a democracy.

As for the right dominance here and shrill I don't see it as a problem most here are pretty good and we have had a couple of quality posters turn up as of late nice if we had a few more.

 

[sptrawler]

Disagree there are many aspects to politics and endless arguments if you are interested in political dialogue.

If you take away the various threads you take away the various aspects.



If its bad for Joes business then cull if not its easy to ignore political discussion.

I was disappointed the other day when Kennas moderated a new thread I started to bash Abbott and then another government bashing thread started up without any problems such is life in a forum its not a democracy.

As for the right dominance here and shrill I don't see it as a problem most here are pretty good and we have had a couple of quality posters turn up as of late nice if we had a few more.

I agree with you, if politacal threads are conducted in an orderly manner, let it run.
I enjoyed the superannuation thread, probably lots didn't.

With regard the share threads, I put up a stock and asked a general question, the first response came in two years later.
If I was going to rely on that sort of interaction, I would join an ATO forum.

 

[So_Cynical]

Alternatively, I'd vote for a reduction of general and political threads. One thread each for "Labor Bashing", "Greens Bashing", Libs Bashing", even "Religion Bashing" would seem enough. Self restraint doesn't seem to work, as the proliferation of new "XXX for PM" shows. Those that need to, can easily "subscribe" to those threads without cluttering the list of new posts for the community at large.

Seconded.

Easy enough to do, just merge any new 'themed - none original' threads into the appropriate thread.

 

[Gringotts Bank]

My AVG always picks up the following virus from ASF website:

"Exploit Blackhole Exploit Kit Detection type 1965". Can this virus be removed please?!!

And a lot of days I can't even access the page at all. I don't want to turn off my AVG and get the virus.

 

[Joe Blow]

My AVG always picks up the following virus from ASF website:

"Exploit Blackhole Exploit Kit Detection type 1965". Can this virus be removed please?!!

And a lot of days I can't even access the page at all. I don't want to turn off my AVG and get the virus.

This issue has been resolved. Everything should be back to normal now.

 

[Gringotts Bank]

This issue has been resolved. Everything should be back to normal now.

rightio thanks.

 

[Gringotts Bank]

rightio thanks.

Joe I think my IP address has been blocked. Still can't log in. This is from someone else's PC.

 

[Joe Blow]

Joe I think my IP address has been blocked. Still can't log in. This is from someone else's PC.

Are you still blocked?

 

[Gringotts Bank]

Are you still blocked?

I was on the day you posted this (4th). Yesterday was ok.

Thanks for looking into it.

 

[Joe Blow]

Good morning everyone!

ASF turned nine years old in late May, and we are rapidly closing in on 50,000 registrations, 20,000 threads and 750,000 posts.

All these milestones got me thinking about the level of user satisfaction with ASF, so I have decided to simply revive this old thread and ask for some feedback directly.

What do you like and dislike about ASF in its current form? Feel free to discuss any aspect of ASF, from management to design and functionality.

What changes would you like to see at ASF? Again, this could be anything from design changes to the addition of new content or forum functionality.

Your suggestions and feedback are welcome.

 

[Logique]

Congratulations Joe, it's pretty good for mine. I like how you've automated so many functions.

Pale blue backgrounds: I've gotten used to it, but still not completely convinced.

 

[Julia]

I like the colours. One of the best features is the Quote Reply which makes for easy to understand responses.
On the forums that don't have this, it's very messy when someone quotes a previous poster but there is no distinguishing feature which allows the reader to know who said what.

No complaints from me, Joe but appreciation for a well run forum which only occasionally gets unreasonably heated. Pity about the very few who seem to feel compelled to be inflammatory.

One aspect which may not be the sort of thing you have in mind when asking for feedback is the sense of community that exists. I think it's great that so many people are prepared to offer help, whether answers to questions, or in more depth such as Sir O's beginners' thread and Tech/A's mentoring of Pavilion.
Neither of these are inconsequential in the lives of people with their own very busy lives and show great generosity of spirit.