"How to increase the amount of posts?"

In my opinion, the amount of posts is not important. What is important is the quality of our posts. 

Morningstar's Vanguard Diehard Forum was once a leading financial forum where all of us could come to learn and help others.  Let's hope it returns.

Best wishes.
Taylor

Taylor Larimore:

In my opinion, the amount of posts is not important. What is important is the quality of our posts. 

Morningstar's Vanguard Diehard Forum was once a leading financial forum where all of us could come to learn and help others.  Let's hope it returns.

Best wishes.
Taylor

Amen Taylor.  It is indeed sad to see this once fine financial forum lose sense and substance.  It must be especially painful for you, Mel. et al.  I am lucky to have found this forum years ago and it (and you) are the reason I was able to set a prudent course for the future.  New investors finding this site today would likely leave and never return.  Could you blame them?

In my opinion, the amount of posts is not important. What is important is the quality of our posts. 

Hi Taylor,

I totally agree with you.  That being said, I think Petro was just having some tongue in cheek humor along with the rest of us.

LynnC 

I have enjoyed reading your thoughts over the past several years Petrocelli, and would love to share war stories over a few beers one day or play a round of golf with you.  But, this ongoing obsession of yours about "how bad the other forum is" seems very mean spirited and petty. You really should be above this kind of "trolling" garbage. 

This forum should focus on "Quality over quantity"......

Good luck!

 

Taylor Larimore:

In my opinion, the amount of posts is not important. What is important is the quality of our posts. 

Morningstar's Vanguard Diehard Forum was once a leading financial forum where all of us could come to learn and help others.  Let's hope it returns.

Best wishes.
Taylor

Hi Taylor:

Well said; I couldn't agree more!

Newsgrouper:

Amen Taylor.  It is indeed sad to see this once fine financial forum lose sense and substance.  It must be especially painful for you, Mel. et al.  I am lucky to have found this forum years ago and it (and you) are the reason I was able to set a prudent course for the future.  New investors finding this site today would likely leave and never return.  Could you blame them?

Hi Newsgrouper:

It is, indeed, both sad and painful for Taylor and I to witness the deterioration in the quality of the posts on this forum. While Petrocelli likes to bash the Bogleheads Forum, I think he needs to look in the mirror, with posts like "How To Increase the Amount of Posts", "Nuclear Energy", "Hot Hands works if you don't use Dan's Hot Hands choice but make your own substitution instead", "Dan Weiner & FFSA", "Weiner Liquidates Everything and Goes to Cash", "Let's make this a Weiner Forum", "Sudan-related investments", etc.

Perhaps Taylor and I were naive to believe that the two forums could co-exist and that both could uphold the Diehards reputation for excellence.

Regards,

Mel

As Mahatma Gandhi said,

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Or, Bertrand Russell,

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

You must learn to appreciate and love Petrocelli.  Humor is just a funny way of being serious. Peter Ustinov once said,

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Lucas_McCain08:

I love the Wellington fund more than I loved my ex-wife!!

I tried to convince her to see the light... move her money to the low-cost leader, Vanguard. But no, she wanted to stick with her LOAD funds, and the advice of her (salesman!) advisor. 

I will never sell the "W & W" brothers!  I will hold on to Wellington and Wellesley until the day I die.... or the cows come home..... whichever occurs first.

LynnC, this ol' sodbuster still has a hankerin for ya!  We could make beautiful music together! ;-)   

 

 

Oh, so this is where the juicy stuff takes place nowadays?  Lucas, your loyalty to Lynn, a wonderful woman indeed, remains admirable and touching.

I don't vote for Ginger or MaryAnn or Mrs. Howell (may she rest in peace). I'll take the Professor since I like men with brains.

Where do I say something about Vanguard Funds, BTW?   

Hetty 

LynnC:

I totally agree with you.  That being said, I think Petro was just having some tongue in cheek humor along with the rest of us.

Thank you Lynn.  Does anyone else have a sense of humor anymore?

Petrocleli 

Taylor Larimore:

In my opinion, the amount of posts is not important. What is important is the quality of our posts.

That's my point.  Are 58 posts on a lost parking ticket quality or quantity?
 

Petrocelli 

Zander:

But, this ongoing obsession of yours about "how bad the other forum is" seems very mean spirited and petty. You really should be above this kind of "trolling" garbage.

I think I have made two posts about the Boglehead forum recently.  This one, and the one about "The Masters" being banned from discussion.  I post at Bogleheads frequently, and I think they should learn to laugh at some of the funny things they do. I mean, 58 posts on a lost parking ticket?  Isn't that a little bit funny?

I think Taylor and Mel should get off the high horse and maybe have a chuckle once in a while.  In the end, we are all a bunch of jokers killing time by typing messages on the internet.  (I am watching the Celtics on TIVO while I type this.)   I think they should take themselves just a wee bit less seriously.

Also, what bugs me is that no one gives a hoot in hell about this forum, until it starts getting busy.  Unlike some people, when I see that the forum has dropped to 5 posts in 24 hours, I feel some sort of weird moral obligation to get it going again.  I'll do it in my way.  if someone else wants to do it their way, by all means jump in.  There's plenty of bandwidth.  Until then, quit your bellyaching.  

Petrocelli