Well, those are all valid points. For me personally, I have used this forums for various purposes. When I became interested in the PM market, I used the forums to glean any and all info I could. I took some foolish risks by believing comments made by certain people without doing my own homework. Lessons learned the hard way (is there an easy way to learn lessons?).
Now, I like to hear others approach to investing such as yours, Claude's and a few others. As for a more moderated forum, I suppose that could be done via a seperate forum where the moderator kept control over who could participate. For general stock info, this type of forum is available at bearforum.com (simply an example). The only problem I could see with such a forum is you may not get the necessary new input or contrary opinion that we get here. For example, would a E. Andrews be allowed "in" to provide some tough questions? Would someone like myself with limited geological knowledge (but am trying to learn) be allowed "in"?
Having said that, I believe that your "perfect" model is , well..perfect. A small group of like minded people would be a good alternative to the wide open SI. Perhaps someone like Claude or Jim could manage this through their own web site as long as the contributors paid a small annual fee to defer the cost and time to manage the site. Personally, I would not mind doing it myself. If there is enough interest, I can look into it. I have the computers, etc. to do it and I an check around for some "forum" style software. |
