SMcGuire45 and jmcl, welcome to both of you and thank you for the kind words. It is truly a pleasure for me to be able to help this way and to be able to pass on some of what I have learned.
I'm not a master of any of this by any stretch, but there are enough people who can now testify to it's effectiveness that none of us have anything to "prove," we just need to all work together and trade. Then as time goes on we will ALL have things we can offer to the community in the way of improvements, suggestions, encouragement and so on. That is the best part of all of this, to be truly honest about it.
Juneman, sorry to hear about people posting things they shouldn't. Trolls and troglodytes seem to come out of the woodwork at times to try to cause problems. Sorry you had to start requiring a sign up, but I'm glad you did. It will allow you to keep the chat more focused and trader friendly.
I hate being draconian about things, but that is the very reason I now have almost 70 people on my ignore list from FF. I really wish people could just grow up and be more encouraging and helpful. Unfortunately, there are many who just want to cause problems. Funny part is that normally those are the very people who would benefit the MOST from chats like yours, and threads like this one.
I would say it's sad, but I have learned it's only sad for them. Has no impact on the rest of us if we don't let it.
In any event, thank you all for your input and for making this thread so successful.
I have been watching the number of "views" as related to the number of posts for a while now. At the beginning, we were getting about 10 view for each post, roughly about 1000 views for each 100 posts. As of this past week, that has been changing. We are now getting about 49 views for each post (this weekend), instead of the 1:10 ratio we were at. Overall we are now at 105 views for each 10 as an average from the beginning. Seems The Dance is catching on a bit.
To be honest, the continued growth is still amazing to me.
Good work my friends, great community.
God bless and good trading to you.
Clay
I'm not a master of any of this by any stretch, but there are enough people who can now testify to it's effectiveness that none of us have anything to "prove," we just need to all work together and trade. Then as time goes on we will ALL have things we can offer to the community in the way of improvements, suggestions, encouragement and so on. That is the best part of all of this, to be truly honest about it.
Juneman, sorry to hear about people posting things they shouldn't. Trolls and troglodytes seem to come out of the woodwork at times to try to cause problems. Sorry you had to start requiring a sign up, but I'm glad you did. It will allow you to keep the chat more focused and trader friendly.
I hate being draconian about things, but that is the very reason I now have almost 70 people on my ignore list from FF. I really wish people could just grow up and be more encouraging and helpful. Unfortunately, there are many who just want to cause problems. Funny part is that normally those are the very people who would benefit the MOST from chats like yours, and threads like this one.
I would say it's sad, but I have learned it's only sad for them. Has no impact on the rest of us if we don't let it.
In any event, thank you all for your input and for making this thread so successful.
I have been watching the number of "views" as related to the number of posts for a while now. At the beginning, we were getting about 10 view for each post, roughly about 1000 views for each 100 posts. As of this past week, that has been changing. We are now getting about 49 views for each post (this weekend), instead of the 1:10 ratio we were at. Overall we are now at 105 views for each 10 as an average from the beginning. Seems The Dance is catching on a bit.
To be honest, the continued growth is still amazing to me.
Good work my friends, great community.
God bless and good trading to you.
Clay