Please post your suggestions here, all shapes and sizes welcome!
1) Community live trading rooms. eg Index trade room, Forex trade room. Using web hosting interactive software like ivocalise. May need to be subscription depending on cost to host.
Also could be used as a guest trading education resource.
2) Simple competitions where members can pit their wits against each other and the markets. Small prizes always help, vouchers, trading books etc.
Forum software needs updating.
I post on other forums that work more like social media sites. E.g you get an alert every time someone quotes one of your posts. You can tag other members in threads alerting them to the conversation. The idea being that you keep coming back to see how many alerts you have.
All to often, I will post on a thread here and then totally forget about it
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Also what ffsear said.
ffsear, do you have instant alerts turned on by default? It's in your Options here: http://www.trade2win.com/boards/profile.php?do=editoptions - see "Default Thread Subscription Mode". That way you get notified about any new posts to threads you participate in. If you mean something else (I think you do), then drop me a message with the forums and I'll take a look if it's something we can incorporate.
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Ok.. how about a 'Chart of the day' Could be a weekly competition. Posters submit 2 x charts with a trade or trades they actually made with notes the where's and whys. Posts limited to 2 per person per week and one must be a trade or trades that didn't work out, as instructive as ones that did imo.
Prizes for the good, the bad and the ugly.
Is that the e-mail alerts. I have those all turned off as I found them annoying. Its more of a Facebook type alert/tagging system. That happens within the forum itself.
Have a look at these guys http://xenforo.com/
I quite enjoyed those forex-crowd-sourcing (ForexBoard was it?) contests - at least with something like that there's no BS, hindsight trading, etc.
FF alerts you if someone quotes you , useful feature .
Interesting idea Sigma-D, thanks for sharing!
Premium subscriptions are something that have been suggested over the years but never came to fruition. The implementation your suggested would serve as a simple way to cut down 'noise'. A few things come to mind...
- Are the 'penniless trolls, spammers, scammers and snipers' a big enough problem on the regular forums to warrant it?
- Would non-paying members still have the ability to view the content, although not participate?
- What impact would this have on discussion in the 'public' forums, which would then serve as a 'feeder' into the 'premium' forums?
- How to solve the chicken and egg, problem of members paying for access to quality content that isn't there yet?
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