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John Coles
Posted: 17 November 2010 13:23:19(UTC)
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Joined: 16/09/2009(UTC)
Posts: 9
A kind offer but slightly puzzling - your expertise is financial and that's why I come here. You will win plaudits for your financial commentary and news, but would you ever do so for your political comment? Anyway, thanks for the thought, I'll stop commenting, it's time for me to have a lie-down in a darkened room.
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Anonymous Post
Posted: 17 November 2010 14:27:43(UTC)
#12
Anonymous 1 needed this 'Off the Record'

Having registered with Citywire using my real name, it would be handy to be able to comment on forum sites and on articles using an alias rather than my real name. I appreciate that there is the "Off the record" facility, or that I could register again using an alias, but I can't see the point.
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Jeremy Bosk
Posted: 17 November 2010 15:27:57(UTC)
#13

Joined: 09/06/2010(UTC)
Posts: 1,316
Mary

The forums already are divided into Money, News & Politics and Beyond Money. This is fair enough and far enough. The difficulties are due to most of the debates wandering off point (mea culpa) and the occasional monomaniacal attempt to blame all the world's ills on: the EU, socialism, the unions, religion, young people, immigrants, the BBC, parents, teachers or whatever.

Trying to separate politics from economics is a doomed endeavour which is why Oxbridge teaches Political Economics. It might be worth labelling some articles as opinion pieces as opposed to reportage and as distinct from editorials. As C P Scott said: "Opinions are free, facts are sacred". Although some of the more excitable readers do not seem to understand the difference; at least you will have tried.

Anonymous1 has a point, everyone would benefit from a facility to register a real name and use a pseudonym if preferred for whatever reason.
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Rich Harris (Citywire)
Posted: 17 November 2010 15:53:52(UTC)
#14

Joined: 08/06/2010(UTC)
Posts: 126
CP Scott is quite right, we could do a better job of separating comment from news. We'll find a way to label it clearly.

Anon 1 - if you'd like to change your forum name permanently to an alias that's no problem, email Mary or me (mhamilton@citywire.co.uk / rharris@citywire.co.uk) and we'll get our tech support people on the case. Unfortunately it's not possible to have two names (real and alias) associated with a single account
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Guest
Posted: 17 November 2010 20:55:00(UTC)
#15

Joined: 21/06/2010(UTC)
Posts: 557
For me it would if site visitors agreed, Trustnet implemented this some time ago after closing their forums down but unfortunately there is too little in the way of contribution to make it worthwhile.

Thanks for asking,
Mickey
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ynys
Posted: 17 November 2010 21:25:25(UTC)
#16

Joined: 21/10/2010(UTC)
Posts: 45
Are reader allowed to initiate threads?
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Mary Hamilton (Citywire)
Posted: 18 November 2010 08:12:53(UTC)
#17

Joined: 05/11/2010(UTC)
Posts: 61
Hi ynys. Yes, readers are allowed to start threads, and we'd like to see more people doing so in the future as the forums grow.
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Cockney Dave
Posted: 18 November 2010 11:46:08(UTC)
#18

Joined: 19/05/2009(UTC)
Posts: 13
I would be willing to do a daily post as i have many things that i could write about that would cause a good debate.
i am sure there are many others who would do this same thing, and i feel that these should be on the backend of the stoires that are on here. So each article could have a link to the daily forum of the regular people on here, but lets add a little bit fun to the who thing. Maybe a litte freebie for whoever gets the most posts on a weekly or monthly basis, this will encourage regular visitors to post articles on here. also, when one to the reporters or main story tellers of the site make a post, lets have a vote under each articel to see which of the reporters also have the best content as some of the stories are not as great as a professional writer should be writiing.


Citywire admin - you have my email address should you wish to comment directly

Have a good one all
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Chairman2
Posted: 20 November 2010 20:01:43(UTC)
#19

Joined: 26/06/2009(UTC)
Posts: 11
be able to get to regular bloggers directly

you need to realise that linking the blog to each news story is
a great way to build traffic - its fundamentally your marketing that
needs to sharpen its act. - and the link has to be item specific with
enough of teaser info in the heading to get people to read it.

In other words turn the forums into a supply push rather than a
demand pull section

Dont bother inviting 'your Comments' mostly people comment
in reaction to others not in the abstract. Those with something
to say on most subjects are by definition pub bores!
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satish mittal
Posted: 20 November 2010 21:37:23(UTC)
#20

Joined: 21/04/2006(UTC)
Posts: 271
Hello Mary
I suggest when you recommend a share, fund or ETF etc, it would be helpful if you can give comparision of performance (with similar funds in unit trusts, investment trust and ETFs) after deduction of all expenses and fees etc. Also, where I can get them. Varitus global income informes me that minimum investment is £6000 but you never mentioned this. I cannot understsnd the reasons of recommendation of some of your funds as their performance had.been far from satisfactory during the last 3 years. Infact, some of them are still showing losses over 3 years. Also when mentioning risk, quantify please i.e. Is it more risky to remain invested 100 % in UK or 100% in India for example. How risky is it to invest in Aberdeen income, Newton Asian Income, Other global income as compared to Income funds such as Invesco Perpetual income. I find the former has better record. As regards Etf, most appear disappoiinting when performance compared, exceptions Gold. However, you do a good job. Well done.
Many thanks
Dr satish Mittal
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