@uncamikey said in Individual Stocks/Investments:

@david-scubadiver Hi David – a little OT but I’ve always wanted to ask, are you the same Scubadiver who was active in the old Motley Fool forums? I was active there in the last century and learned a lot about early retirement before MF started charging. That led to a great exodus and I ended up on FWF, maybe you too?

Ha! I remember using MF before they started charging. I was in grad school, and was only allowed to work 10 hours a week for $10.50 an hour. I had more debt than I could bear to think about, was eating a potato with butter for every meal for weeks at a time, and had a credit score in the 500s. I was bummed that they started charging because I couldn’t afford to pay and was desperate to improve my finances. I loved it up until then… great humor and great advice.

@dangeruss said in Forum Navigation:

@fivetalents said in Forum Navigation:

@frugalfreak said in Forum Navigation:

@fivetalents most don’t know what meta means, perhaps dummy language for the forum like Phat help or similar

I agree. Meta is dangeruss’ word/preference. I’m sure he’ll choose a user-friendly title.

Meta means:

ADJECTIVE
(of a creative work) referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self-referential.

I’ve seen it used on one of the other forums I frequent. But I guess if it needs explaining, it’s not a very good name.

That’s my concern. I’m a research scientist and often do meta-analyses. However, I don’t think it is a commonly used term for most lay people and thus confusing/non user friendly. Maybe you could come up with an interim name, create the forum, and then put a sticky in it asking for member suggestions on what to rename it.

@frugalfreak said in Forum Navigation:

@fivetalents most don’t know what meta means, perhaps dummy language for the forum like Phat help or similar

I agree. Meta is dangeruss’ word/preference. I’m sure he’ll choose a user-friendly title.

@prosperity said in Forum Navigation:

I looked for a proper place to post this - I know this is all new.

Dangeruss will be creating a meta/member support forum soon, then there’ll be a dedicated forum to post threads like this about bugs, feature requests, help requests, etc.