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Thinking about all this, I think Joe’s solution is the right one but we can all help too.In terms of the “why?” aspect of General Chat I think at least some of it comes down to this being one of the few places where you’ll find a group of intelligent and generally civil individuals. The knowledge, balance of views and general conduct on this forum leaves many others and the mainstream media for dead.On the other hand it has something in common with a workplace. Ultimately we all (presumably) came here to make money. There might be exceptions hut not many are going to do a search for “stock market forum”, find ASF and sign up if they’re not intending to make a profit from investing. Likewise Joe is running a business not a charity.As with any workplace, a bit of idle chatter can bring benefits via team building and so on but ultimately it’s not getting the work done and isn’t making money. There’s a limit to the volume of it beyond which it becomes a major problem.So I suggest that in addition to the changes to the forum which Joe is looking after, the rest of us note that Monday marks the start of a new business week, a new month and a new financial year too. That seems like a perfect opportunity to make an effort at shifting the focus.My personal view is that it’s politics and religion which are the problem with GC. There is after all a limit to how many travel photos, recipes and photos of their pet snail anyone can sensibly post so that sort of thing ought to be self limiting in volume. Plus nobody’s likely to be offended by it.With the political threads I also think the missing detail is the investment implications. Next time there’s an election somewhere, surely the most obvious focus is what implications a win by party x has for our investments?
Thinking about all this, I think Joe’s solution is the right one but we can all help too.
In terms of the “why?” aspect of General Chat I think at least some of it comes down to this being one of the few places where you’ll find a group of intelligent and generally civil individuals. The knowledge, balance of views and general conduct on this forum leaves many others and the mainstream media for dead.
On the other hand it has something in common with a workplace. Ultimately we all (presumably) came here to make money. There might be exceptions hut not many are going to do a search for “stock market forum”, find ASF and sign up if they’re not intending to make a profit from investing. Likewise Joe is running a business not a charity.
As with any workplace, a bit of idle chatter can bring benefits via team building and so on but ultimately it’s not getting the work done and isn’t making money. There’s a limit to the volume of it beyond which it becomes a major problem.
So I suggest that in addition to the changes to the forum which Joe is looking after, the rest of us note that Monday marks the start of a new business week, a new month and a new financial year too. That seems like a perfect opportunity to make an effort at shifting the focus.
My personal view is that it’s politics and religion which are the problem with GC. There is after all a limit to how many travel photos, recipes and photos of their pet snail anyone can sensibly post so that sort of thing ought to be self limiting in volume. Plus nobody’s likely to be offended by it.
With the political threads I also think the missing detail is the investment implications. Next time there’s an election somewhere, surely the most obvious focus is what implications a win by party x has for our investments?
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