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@Maurice &MFO Members: M* Discussion Boards are second rate compared to the MFO Discussion Board. There is more news and views on our board in one day than M*'s in a week. Don't waste your time. Regards, Ted
@Ted - with respect to mutual funds you may be right but there are at least 10 other discussion boards at M* covering a variety of topics. I find the CEF, Fidelity and the Income & Dividend Investing forums to be quite knowledgeable and interesting.
I'm on both sites and find value in both forum communities. Is there noise that I ignore on both sites? Absolutely ... but it's well worth navigating for the nuggets of useful crowdsourced wisdom. I've leard a lot from ppl on both sites, frankly.
(As a M* regular, I also deeply appreciate MFO's monthly commentaries, too!)
Interesting -- I looked at some M* discussions & recognized a couple of contributors, but apparently most who comment in both use different handles(?). Two things that stood out: Depending on which discussion sub-set you choose -- yes -- MFO has a lot more "chat & gossip" but you don't HAVE to choose "all discussions". MFO is a smaller group (I assume) with a few more personal ties -- some to the fond "way-backs" of our predecessor. I don't think 1--1 comparison is reasonable.
Agree with rforno -- value in both. Depends on your views. And for a fair comparison MFO Premium should be the comparison -- not just the usual jousting.
Even going by investing topics only, M* discussions in very general terms stay more on point and are specific, informed, brief, and sophisticated, like the best of msf, Bob, Lewis, fundalarm, Ted (sometimes), and a few others here (apologies to those wrongly overlooked).
I started reading through the link Ted supplied on
Here's what M*'s Mutual Funds Discussion think of MFO !
. Hard for me to disagree on some of their observations. I don't read M* discussion boards at all, but I see where they are coming from on the MFO discussion board being made political at times - by a few.
Comments
Regards,
Ted
E.g., just two, almost at random:
http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=821658
http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=821370
Regards,
Ted
http://socialize.morningstar.com/NewSocialize/forums/p/374434/3846258.aspx#3846258
(As a M* regular, I also deeply appreciate MFO's monthly commentaries, too!)
Agree with rforno -- value in both. Depends on your views. And for a fair comparison MFO Premium should be the comparison -- not just the usual jousting.
Just my admittedly limited comparison;.
you'd think readers here were caught by surprise or something, like it was one big flatfile.