Filter Threads by Star Rating

[Ingot54]

Not certain if you already have this feature.

It would be useful when looking through threads for good stuff to browse, if an option were available to view Topics by their Star Ratings.

The idea behind this is to Browse the listings and only view the ones that the peer group has adjudged meritorious.

Quite a lot of good material is hidden in the depths of hundreds of threads archived, and it is indeed a tedious exercise to sift through to find the goodies.

With best wishes

Ivan:clap:

 

[Ingot54]

Star Ratings

Not certain if you already have this feature.

It would be useful when looking through threads for good stuff to browse, if an option were available to view Topics by their Star Ratings.

The idea behind this is to Browse the listings and only view the ones that the peer group has adjudged meritorious.

Quite a lot of good material is hidden in the depths of hundreds of threads archived, and it is indeed a tedious exercise to sift through to find the goodies.

With best wishes

Ivan:clap:

Would like to see if there is any interest in this - quite a lot of very good posts and threads become archived deep within their respective categories. Having a filter to bring these to the top via their star rating as a filter, would certainly assist during searches of topics.

It may not be important to some, but to people like myself who have an interest in reading the contributions of good trading writers, it is.

 

[Sharky]

I agree we should make better use of the thread rating system and we've now enabled ratings in search results. But as yet there's no way to browse, say, all 5 star threads across all forums; or sort by rating when performing a search. You can sort by rating in a single forum (just click the 'Rating' title). If it's technically feasible we'll try to support it better - but for now the two methods above are all we can offer.

 

[Ingot54]

Wasted Assets!

I agree we should make better use of the thread rating system and we've now enabled ratings in search results. But as yet there's no way to browse, say, all 5 star threads across all forums; or sort by rating when performing a search. You can sort by rating in a single forum (just click the 'Rating' title). If it's technically feasible we'll try to support it better - but for now the two methods above are all we can offer.

Cheers Sharky.

Regardless of where the forum stands today, the good things posted yesterday deserve to be available. The ongoing education of the trading community is/was a part of the charter of T2W when it was started, whether you realised that or not.

What probably started out as a business venture to fill a niche, has achieved that alright!

But what has evolved with that - consciously or not - is a huge responsibility now for T2W.
T2W has a responsibility to the community that has gathered here, to make available, with electronic speed, the great posts, information, ideas, methods, systems and strategies, that has been freely contributed by the passing parade.

T2W has been a beneficiary of the free contributions of its members, and vice versa.

T2W has not charged a membership fee to access that knowledge. It remains - albeit hidden generally, unless you know both what you are looking for, and where to look for it.

To my mind you are absolutely squandering the most precious resource of the computer age ... knowledge. You have it here, and you are not good caretakers, not exploiting the asset you have, and not providing it in a form where T2W could quite easily profit from this knowledge.

I guess I am being presumptuous here - but I would place a huge bet that the management of this site are neither traders, not remotely interested in trading.

If they/you were, there is no way under heaven that you would allow the wealth of knowledge that is posted here daily, sit in the vaults, going mouldy! I'll bet you haven't realised nor even understood the value of the asset I am talking about. The value to traders, that is. To a non-trader ... well - it may be little more than an inane community special-interest group.

Good business people might already have collated the best of the contributions here and ...

...but I don't want to do it all for you.

I wonder just how enterprising the management of this site really is.

Tired?

Yeah!

A bit of lateral thinking could turn a few bob.

While I'm giving heavy feedback - can you please tell me what is cutting edge about the Articles and Reviews sections?
What is found in those sections that is not also available in 1000 other web sites?
What information is there, that has not already been thrashed out on 10,000 forums to the cliche stage, ad nauseum?

What the trading community desperately needs is innovation and new blood. Something that can not be found on other Trading Education sites and forums.

Maybe I should start my own forum - I can think of a few approaches that might turn heads.

Cheers mate - but in passing - if I owned this site, I would be a very wealthy man by now - off the back of the KNOWLEDGE that has slowly accumulated and amassed itself on the site.

Over 100,000 members? Maybe - given that people are FORCED to sign up with a membership in order to access even the contents of ONE post.

How many members have signed up and NEVER POSTED A LINE?

Where are those members?

Why did you let them in your front door, and let them walk right out again?
Why have you not kept them?

!00,000 members ...

... and you let them dig in your gold-hill for free?

Do you know why people sign up for membership here?

Ivan
[end of rant]

 

[Sharky]

Dear Ivan,

Thank you for expressing in the strongest terms how important it is that we fulfil our responsibility to make the best of T2W available to its members - it's duly noted.

Whilst at present due to the limitations of the software we are unable to use the star rating system to achieve this goal, now that Nika and Androosh are assisting with the forum management - I hope that in coming weeks/months we'll be able to roll out various initiatives to achieve open up the knowledge in the forums just as you've requested. We'll definitely need help from the membership along the way; with over half a million posts it's certainly not going to be a walk in the park! But it's definitely achievable and that will be our goal!

Cheers,
Paul.

 

[Ingot54]

Dear Ivan,

Thank you for expressing in the strongest terms how important it is that we fulfil our responsibility to make the best of T2W available to its members - it's duly noted.

Whilst at present due to the limitations of the software we are unable to use the star rating system to achieve this goal, now that Nika and Androosh are assisting with the forum management - I hope that in coming weeks/months we'll be able to roll out various initiatives to achieve open up the knowledge in the forums just as you've requested. We'll definitely need help from the membership along the way; with over half a million posts it's certainly not going to be a walk in the park! But it's definitely achievable and that will be our goal!

Cheers,
Paul.

Thank you for taking my strong commentary in the spirit in which it is intended Paul. I have been a member here for some years now, but since becoming seriously interested in FX trading, I have attempted to help myself by helping others.

My two threads here, have been an attempt to get my own trading up to a profitable level - but more to the point, I am trying to rekindle my damaged confidence. At the same time, I am trying to discipline myself through presenting in a structured way, the plans and strategies used in a couple of different systems and methods of trading.

Not in a small way was I motivated to write because of the (lack of) quality of some of the posts. I suspect that T2W has its share of class clowns - but I believe these people are probably failed traders who like the site, and who may have given up on ever growing an account.

I want to change that. People do not become clowns and spoilers/disrupters because they are achieving - quite the opposite in my view. Such people are generally highly intelligent, and require a much stronger degree of motivation and direction for their drive.

I want to see people read threads and posts, and become enthused and motivated and excited about their trading again. Many of us can remember when we first became interested in trading - the lure of easier money (which really is entirely possible) and the excitement surrounding something new and good. But the experiences of many (according to the oft-quoted statistics) have been disappointment and angst. Not the liberation and empowerment, lifestyle and freedom that was in the promise.

The reason it eludes many of us is because of the way we treat our trading.

For some the solution is as simple as clarifying a systematic approach,and simply sticking to it, taking the good and the awful together!

For others - and I put myself in this group - it is more a matter of keeping the nose on the scent. In other words - remaining focused, disciplined (I hate that cliched word) and having a view of the exit at the point of entry.

Trading is not a game as such - it is a serious vocation, for which an apprenticeship MUST be served. I thought differently when I started out 5 years ago - I thought I would be cluey enough to bypass the boring stuff. (Sound of sharp smack on the wrist!)

T2W is full of very good information.

To steal an idea: another forum has a School that traders may freely study and get their trading licence! There is no monopoly on good ideas, and because T2W does not yet have that, we are in a unique situation.

Could I suggest that this forum do something similar, but more far-reaching than the "other" site? Perhaps a lively, fresh approach that stimulates and attracts the reader/student?

I find the approach of Van Tharp and Mark Douglas, Alexander Elder and other great trading/educating minds to be useful, but today the information they gave to the trading world has been so hashed, re-hashed and regurgitated, that today we are able to find novice traders writing posts, spitting out this cliched stuff, as if they are masters!

What we have on T2W is the real-life trading experiences of REAL traders - not an abstract concept from a book. Post-by-post it has been laid down or laid out for the reader to absorb, but today, it has passed into history ... or very nearly.

Once some of this stuff is dug out, collated and formalised, the makings of a unique and extremely useful trading education could be born.

It will take time ... but it is the way forward.

Some decent interactive education would put T2W back up there on the world trading radar - but it would need to be innovative and refreshing. The current batch of "Articles" and "Reviews" hardly inspires a return visit - no matter how revered or successful the writer/speaker may appear.

Today it needs to evolve and appeal.

Can we do this?

Best wishes

Ivan

 

[Sharky]

Ivan, thanks for the suggestions. We'll give them some thought.

Also you'll be glad to hear we've upgrading our search facility to fully support thread ratings. We hope to get this live this week.

 

[Sharky]

You'll be pleased to hear we've finished upgrading the advanced search to support searching by thread rating and also ordering by thread rating (just be aware results will always be returned as - "Show results by thread").

Try it for yourself here: http://www.trade2win.com/boards/search.php

 

[hk285]

1. Great site Sharky, thanks for founding it and well done to (Nika and Androosh) and everyone who's been involved in making it good.
2. Having frequently spent way over 2hrs reading through threads when I was meant to spend 30 mins, I was wondering if there would be an option to build in more flexibilty to the rating system so that we could filter by posts like slashdot's feature.

It collapses all comments (posts), in a thread that have a rating less than 4, and also they are labelled funny/informative/insightful/interesting.

This allows you to quickly scan through a "crap" condensed thread and saves time to learn more stuff!

e.g.

Slashdot Comments | Ministry of Defense's "How To Stop Leaks" Document Is Leaked

p.s. am not plugging or linked to slashdot in any way.

H