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I have been questioning M* stock price for a while based on its business practices (or the lack thereof) but the faithful here have been making excuses for M* (just as they did for years for Vanguard). So, I suspect M* popularity will not be dented by the latest incident.
I’ve been forgetting who I am ever since I turned 75. Maybe I’ll take a look.
Thanks for the heads-up Yogi. I don’t post or read financial discussion boards anywhere else. Something similar happened at Amazon years ago where real names became attached to the product reviews. By going into profile settings it was possible to re-set things and revert back to the user names.
@hank, I remember that very much. I have done a few Amazon reviews. When I did one for a book by a colleague, I thought I would do it as real-me. To my horror, I found that all of my Amazon reviews then turned into real-me. I waited a month or so and reverted back to web-me (always YBB or yogibearbull that may be better known than real-me).
Whenever and wherever I can do it, I use fiction. After attempting, several years ago, to log-into Facebook from Canada, I was locked out--- presumably because I did it from Canada. Nothing else had changed. So, I created a new profile. But the Zuck's worthless, stinking, putrid bots saw and connected the dots.You're allowed only one profile.
The solution? An ENTIRELY fictional profile and account. Name = StickMerflotchky. And he lives in Beirut. I simply notified my contacts and gradually got them onboard. And the ZUCK doesn't seem to mind at all. So much for ACTUAL security. Jayzuz.
Response from M* is that it's working to fix this problem with real names vs userIDs. As M* Discussions now require login, this issue is within the M* community (private), and not public.
A problem surfaced on 12/11/24 at M* Discussions that real names started showing instead of the UserIDs. M* hasn’t been unable to fix this problem in over 9 days. Now, M* Discussions have been taken offline, hopefully to fix & then return. Investing Forums link has been removed from M* Discussions Homepage.
When you go to any M* Discussions page/link, it says “Invalid Page”, but on login, you can access your own Profile & your posts, & others’ if you have bookmarked their Profiles. https://community.morningstar.com/s/
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Thanks for the heads up though.
Thanks for the heads-up Yogi. I don’t post or read financial discussion boards anywhere else. Something similar happened at Amazon years ago where real names became attached to the product reviews. By going into profile settings it was possible to re-set things and revert back to the user names.
Yes- that's a lot cheaper than therapy!
The solution? An ENTIRELY fictional profile and account. Name = Stick Merflotchky. And he lives in Beirut. I simply notified my contacts and gradually got them onboard. And the ZUCK doesn't seem to mind at all. So much for ACTUAL security. Jayzuz.
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A problem surfaced on 12/11/24 at M* Discussions that real names started showing instead of the UserIDs. M* hasn’t been unable to fix this problem in over 9 days. Now, M* Discussions have been taken offline, hopefully to fix & then return. Investing Forums link has been removed from M* Discussions Homepage.
When you go to any M* Discussions page/link, it says “Invalid Page”, but on login, you can access your own Profile & your posts, & others’ if you have bookmarked their Profiles.
https://community.morningstar.com/s/
The day the M* Discussions died is noted as 12/20/24, about 1:00 PM Central.