Do you own leg work. Not depend on this forum to spoon feed you..
I like the other Forum better
- Thread starter Starofdavid
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Do you own leg work. Not depend on this forum to spoon feed you..
I wouldn't say peoples opinions have only y entertainment value.. That's somewhat demeaning!
I try to learn something from everyone I meet.
Sim
Administrator
Perhaps there is a good reason for that? People have moved on to other areas and no longer consider the areas you mention to be good value?
Depends on what you class as informative,there are a lot of one man lady sites out there,but a lot are just sales fronts caught in a mental treadmill,were as this site a lot of skills transfer for free..
What...we don't have your full allegiance
Guess ya gotta share the love
Actually,I'm quite a gentleman on the other forum. A Jeckl and Hyde persona over the net grrrrrrrrrr.
Sim
Administrator
Nobody gets in trouble for mentioning other forums.
There is one particular forum (not the one actually being discussed here by the OP) where we do block links - but that's only because we had a lot of trouble with that site a few years back with troll attacks.
You don't actually get in trouble for mentioning it - we just don't permit people to link to it.
Excluding sites like Whirlpool, Reddit, Facebook etc - where property discussion is incidental rather than the main purpose - there are only two serious property discussion forums in Australia - Somersoft and propertyinvesting.com
There are other investment or finance related sites which discuss property as well (InvestEd, plus some of the shares forums), but it is not a focussed discussion like it is here and on propertyinvesting.com
I believe some of the magazines have discussion forums as well - but from what I've seen, they are small and don't see much traffic.
Who's got time to be a pain in the derriere on more than one site?
Do we need to list them?
Make up your own mind on which forum you want to use, it wont change where I am (which could be a positive).
Taking a snap shot of stats;
SS - 322 users online
PI - 102 users online
(3x more)
Threads updated in last 24 hours
SS - 15 out of 20 (75%) - of which 11 were updated in last hour
PI - 4 out of 15 (26.66%) - only one in the last hour
(3x more activity)
Total topics (approx.)
SS - 98.1k
PI - 47.3k
(2x more topics)
Total Posts (approx.)
SS - 1,272,000
PI - 343,700
(3.7x more)
Avg post per topic
SS - 12.97
PI - 7.27
(Nearly 2x)
Most members online
SS - Most users ever online was 2,410, 01-05-2015 at 04:58 PM (Source: http://somersoft.com/forums/index.php)
PI - Most users ever online were 553, on August 13, 2014 @ 12:00 pm (Source: http://www.propertyinvesting.com/users-online/)
(4.3x more)
Your call but I know where I am staying...
Taking a snap shot of stats;
SS - 322 users online
PI - 102 users online
(3x more)
Threads updated in last 24 hours
SS - 15 out of 20 (75%) - of which 11 were updated in last hour
PI - 4 out of 15 (26.66%) - only one in the last hour
(3x more activity)
Total topics (approx.)
SS - 98.1k
PI - 47.3k
(2x more topics)
Total Posts (approx.)
SS - 1,272,000
PI - 343,700
(3.7x more)
Avg post per topic
SS - 12.97
PI - 7.27
(Nearly 2x)
Most members online
SS - Most users ever online was 2,410, 01-05-2015 at 04:58 PM (Source: http://somersoft.com/forums/index.php)
PI - Most users ever online were 553, on August 13, 2014 @ 12:00 pm (Source: http://www.propertyinvesting.com/users-online/)
(4.3x more)
Your call but I know where I am staying...
That other forum isn't moderated very well. People tend to get into stupid arguments and belittle each other a lot.
That attitude doesn't fly here, which I am very grateful of.
Not many places you can come to on the internet and only get intelligent and constructive conversation.
Not that our hands are tied completely here, criticism is still allowed, but none of that personal attack BS.
That attitude doesn't fly here, which I am very grateful of.
Not many places you can come to on the internet and only get intelligent and constructive conversation.
Not that our hands are tied completely here, criticism is still allowed, but none of that personal attack BS.
Whirlpool is a great forum if you enjoy analysing hypothetical economic scenarios such as "when interest rates rise back up to 20% like 1992 you are all doomed"
This is one of the weirdest threads I have read? It's like saying hey, I found they sell better coffee or tea elsewhere, right? Well we all like our coffee or tea differently so I would presume!
I don't get what is meant by this statement, I think I must be getting old? Sorry if I am missing the point!
