Overall I think people want the mods to encourage positivity and crack down on the negativity, simple as that, keep the good stuff and cut the bad stuff, maybe throw in a few forum upgrades/buttons if feasible to promote growth and keep things from going stale.
It does make perfect sense, on a forum where many have positive P&L's and positive mindsets and outlooks overall etc, allowing so much negativity to fester and spread makes little sense, so nipping the negative stuff in the bud and cutting toxic threads and spats short would seem the most sensible and logical thing to do, just like on the ladder with trading.
So I'm glad the forum will cater to newbies more now, which was my main criticism, derailing their help/advice threads should be frowned upon, even though most of us have probably done it at some point. Should be fine to give them a warm welcome and throw in a casual joke with the advice but at that stage they prefer advice over banter and they certainly don't have all the tools yet to detect obvious sarcasm like an experienced trader would, it can needlessly confuse and mislead them.
I feel it's vitally important to provide newbies with a safe enough environment to learn, the support system is already in place for this so logic would dictate we give them some space to grow as well, a newbie today can be a fulltimer and a contributer tomorrow etc. Without fresh intake of contributors the community will eventually perish, that's not so much an opinion as it is biology.
I have no real issues on the topic of credibility, I rely on common sense and experience and base my opinions of others on merit, I think most of us already know roughly where others are in their trading journey and enough was shared anyway along the way, beyond that I'm not too interested to be honest. I only like to compare to a very small number of traders out there that share my trading style and markets, so I still consider myself as a relative beginner in that sense, even though at the time of my first forum post I was already regularly paying PC. It's not really humility either, it's just how my philosophy works, which I already talked about at length many times in the past.
Credit is not something I would be after at this point either, if ever, probably wouldn't get much anyway, not even top guys get as much as they should, but certainly don't mind if others want more credit. My trading is fine, it's the other aspects of my life that I should be focusing on more if I'm being honest, so if I go AWOL that would be the reason
However, I understand newbies have issues with credibility when browsing the net and finding random crap, but I encourage them to trust the people on here, we're all savvy enough to know that your average trader will usually try to appear greater than he is as that's basic psychology, I always assume everything on here is true by default, and I trust my ability to tell the difference if needed and don't really care anyway, so if someone is going to great effort to deceive for whatever (non-profit) purpose then the only person they're lying to is themselves, and in that case I wouldn't even be mad, I'd just pity them.I also think moving to another platform would only lose members in the process, and splitting the userbase probably wouldn't be sensible either. Don't know how the forum was pre-2015 but LeTiss commented there used to be a lot more humor overall back in the day, and I would agree that there should be room for light-hearted banter and offtopic stuff, as obviously not everyone wants/needs advice or wants to discuss (their) trading etc.
Especially because its not who I am in real life, If I was having a conversation that I felt was going south I'd change the subject or if it was really going south I'd get out of dodge! And If I felt somebody was trying to wind me up I'd just walk away so no idea why I felt the need to get involved on here.
Reversion to the mean. Time to sell bickering and buy harmony?
