Starting to let them slip?
Compare the posts and posters from a few years back with today.
Trading forums have an inherent problem, which is that there just isn't all that much one can usefully say about trading. What is essentially different in terms of the way one successfully approaches the market today compared to a hundred years ago? Things don't change, not really, because markets don't change. They can't.
Aside from that, at some point a shift did occur. Whereas once you had professionals, the target audience became newbies, and the tone fundamentally altered. I believe the focus moved firmly to revenue generation, and that will eventually erode the raison d'etre of any forum.
In T2W's case advertisers and vendors came to dominate, successful and proficient traders are turned off by the atmosphere, and the vicious spiral gets going. Now you get the constant stream of newbies asking the same stupid questions, the same vendors peddling their same bullsh1t systems, and the good material is buried under an avalanche of crap. There is simply no incentive for people to post worthwhile things.
If not for entertainment, why come here?
If T2W wants to resurrect itself and become a serious trading forum once again it needs to look seriously at what it does and who it tries to attract. It's current state was entirely predictable, but it is not set in stone.
hi gle101,
no had 8am meeting and have just got around to reading the thread. have to say a lot of the stuff being posted on his disappoints me.
I think t2w are starting to let their standards slip.
This site (not just my thread) should be about reasonable dialogue and not ranting off. by hosting bad behaviour it not only brings down the reputation of t2w but will encourage bad behaviour and also stop the site being used for good market practice.
really t2w you need to get a grip and stop the bad behaviour.
pc