Originally Posted by
Baa_Baa
Hopefully he's not referring to Sharetrader, where there is value in informed and uninformed debate and discussion. Anonymity, however thin, creates a collaborative environment for sharing views and ideas, asking questions and getting a variety of answers, and synthesising those or not into ones own decisions.
The value of Sharetrader is evident in its longevity and frequent contributors going back many years and for some time running in parallel to the Sharechat discussion forum which was made defunct. It's not perfect, but then neither is the market, or the brokers, or the advisors, or the media. It's a perspective and a useful one at that. IMHO.
I wonder how many customers Chris (or whomever of his team wrote the article) just offended by calling them idiots for the simple sake of them frequenting an internet chat forum. Unintended consequences lurk beneath ill considered opinion. They should stick to their knitting.
BAA