Post by Ton ⓉⓞⓃ on Oct 29, 2022 10:40:14 GMT
The P2P landscape has altered markedly over the last few years. The forum bears witness to these changes with several high profile platform failures but on the flip side there have been new entrants and some existing platforms continue to grow their market share.
The forum finds itself in an unusual position in that the majority of posts lately do not pertain to P2P (certainly that's the case looking at Recent Posts). Indeed the 'chat' board now has the third largest number of posts of all time, behind only Lendy and Assetz Capital. There are many users who no longer actively invest in P2P but who do like to contribute to other discussions. It does raise the question of whether the non-P2P discussion masks or clouds the discussions on P2P and if so what to do about it?
We have considered the suggestion made by the OP here (link), but the admins/mods don't believe the additional work involved in moving the Chat Board to a members only area would solve the issue entirely. However, we are prepared to try a solution which is also not perfect, but hides the content of the Chat Board from everyone and ensures it’s content doesn’t appear in the recent posts or threads lists UNTIL members log in.
Thus this is our third poll option, but it comes with the caveat that if this is the most popular outcome, but its implementation creates additional work for ourselves to ensure the public P2P boards don't drift into Chat territory, and it triggers an increase in moderation of the Chat Board itself, then we will review the situation and may either conduct another poll or close the Chat Board completely.
We believe there is a distinction to be made between posts on the subject of personal finance and posts on the state of the NHS, for example. We also recognise that there are many long standing users who value the Chat Board and the discussions that take place there.
We are therefore asking you for your opinions on the future of the Chat Board and to vote in the accompanying poll.
Thank you
Admins/mods
The forum finds itself in an unusual position in that the majority of posts lately do not pertain to P2P (certainly that's the case looking at Recent Posts). Indeed the 'chat' board now has the third largest number of posts of all time, behind only Lendy and Assetz Capital. There are many users who no longer actively invest in P2P but who do like to contribute to other discussions. It does raise the question of whether the non-P2P discussion masks or clouds the discussions on P2P and if so what to do about it?
We have considered the suggestion made by the OP here (link), but the admins/mods don't believe the additional work involved in moving the Chat Board to a members only area would solve the issue entirely. However, we are prepared to try a solution which is also not perfect, but hides the content of the Chat Board from everyone and ensures it’s content doesn’t appear in the recent posts or threads lists UNTIL members log in.
Thus this is our third poll option, but it comes with the caveat that if this is the most popular outcome, but its implementation creates additional work for ourselves to ensure the public P2P boards don't drift into Chat territory, and it triggers an increase in moderation of the Chat Board itself, then we will review the situation and may either conduct another poll or close the Chat Board completely.
We believe there is a distinction to be made between posts on the subject of personal finance and posts on the state of the NHS, for example. We also recognise that there are many long standing users who value the Chat Board and the discussions that take place there.
We are therefore asking you for your opinions on the future of the Chat Board and to vote in the accompanying poll.
Thank you
Admins/mods