Money Mag, "Insider's Guide to Message Boards"
pathfinder.com
Yahoo!
Lay of the land: Watch your wallet here, because you're
hanging out on the wrong side of the tracks, and there's
not a cop in sight. This is where an engineer posted a link
to a phony Bloomberg story in April announcing a buy-out of
PairGain Technologies, sending its stock soaring before the
fraud was unveiled.
Yahoo! won't discuss usage statistics, but by sheer volume
it is easily the most popular site (Yahoo!'s Amazon board,
for example, attracted 1,176 messages on one randomly
selected day, compared with 220 at SI's Amazon board).
More is not more. Unless you're 11 years old, you will
quickly tire of the you-suck-no-you-suck banter that most
often passes for investment conversation.
Highlights: There aren't any. What with thousands of
threads on penny stocks and spurious trading systems, the
only reason to stick around is to start your own discussion
through the Yahoo! clubs feature and rigorously limit
access.
Fitting in: Are you sure you want to? People do get booted
for foul or threatening language, but troublemakers can
simply create new aliases and log right back on. Save
yourself some grief, and hail a cab back to the nicer parts
of town. |
