BS: Threads are a lot like the stock market

Subject: Threads are a lot like the stock market
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 02:39 PM

I have become very interested in the technical aspect of Thread Analysis.
Studying Thread Analysis has enabled me to develop my skills in stock market investing.
For instance, I have learned.................
Threads with postings over 100 have saturated the Thread market and need to be avoided. Posting to these threads will result in a long expensive wait on your return.
Threads that fall to the bottom of the list are questionable. I ask myself why has no one invested in this thread lately? These threads should be thoroughly read for content. Look at the fundamentals in this case.
Those Threads at the top of the list are hot.
Guaranteed your postings will be read and the percentage of return responses will be high.
Depending on the topic, some threads are long term investments and are worthwhile contributing steadily to.
Some threads fluctuate like the penny stocks or the commodity market. They can be like a wild card, high risk gamble whether the conversation will strike gold or crash in value.
I tend to keep a conservative 40:60 split between posting and reading. That way I know my long term investment in the Mudcat is guaranteed to bring me a good return over the years.

Little Neo

Subject: RE: BS: Threads are a lot like the stock market
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 03:23 PM

Dear Schizoid,

What's the deal? Talk about threads going up and down......You swap names more that Cletus changes underwear. You know we love you dear and you're free to call yourself Sneed Berfulblatt of Connie Lingus for all I care, but I worry about your reasoning here a bit. Ah hell, it don't matter.....just so you're here!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Threads are a lot like the stock market
From: Grey Wolf
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 03:34 PM

Mmmm, not sure - my guess is that a thread's title is probably the most important thing.

I posted a thread yesterday which was a general query on America's attitude towards folk music.

I called it 'Joan Baez on America' as it was a quote from her that raised my curiosity. There were only a few replies. At a guess, had I called it 'America's attitude toward folk' or something similar, I'd have had lots...

However, I don't think this forum is about getting lots of replies to a message, it's about getting answers to things that puzzle you, chatting about folkie stuff and making friends

Regards

Wolf

Subject: RE: BS: Threads are a lot like the stock market
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 03:48 PM

I can't speak for others Wolf but I for one do not read every thread and the thread title is usually what determines whether I read a thread or not. With regard to your example, I had not read it but almost certainly would have done had you given it the alternative title.

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Threads are a lot like the stock market
From: Sourdough
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 03:59 PM

Without thinking about it, I have developed some thread analysis methodologies (although they may be sew sew in value).

Of course, interesting (to me) title tend to get my attention fastest but I have found it's worthwhile going to topics that seem to persist and get up into thirty responses or so. There is a good chance that the discussion has taken an interesting turn, sometimes for no other reason than thread creep. I find those longer threads very often worth the wait. Of course, long threads are not a gurantee that the discussion will be interesting but the odds get better when there are familiar names in the list of posters that comes up first. While the rest of a long thread is being fed to my computer, I look that over. There are some people whose postings and thoughts I almost always am glad to have read so I'll hang in there while my computer digests the wealth of messages flowing over from a long thread.

In defense of Thread Creep: Some of the most interesting material I've seen here is the result of thread creep.

Sourdough

Subject: RE: BS: Threads are a lot like the stock market
From: TerriM
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 04:19 PM

Who is this Thread Creep? Do we know him?

Subject: RE: BS: Threads are a lot like the stock market
From: Amos
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 04:38 PM

ALl Mudcatters turn into Thread Creeps after eating pumpkins. Just don't ask who that is.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Threads are a lot like the stock market
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 05:39 PM

Grey Wolf, I think your point goes under the discussion......
Threads Are Like Newspaper Headlines

Catspaw, were you concerned about my stock market analogy or my indentity crisis?
I like Little Neo. Banjo Bonnie was getting a bit too obnoxious.

BB

Subject: RE: BS: Threads are a lot like the stock market
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 06:23 PM

Well gee Slick, I like you either way!.....But if its Neo for you, than its Neo for us.

BTW, I liked the picture of your new "boyfriend."

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Threads are a lot like the stock market
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 07:43 PM

NeoBanjo.. I thought you might be going through an identity crisis of some kind there a moment, and we'd be having some kind of flame war between Neo and Bonnie.

I'd sooner see it as going to the races rather than a stock market. Same thing in one way - but horse and dog racing is a lot more in keeping with the folk style.

So you have a look down the race card, and see a name that looks lucky, and you maybe sneak a look at her in the paddock. You see the favourite is weighted down with all kinds of handicaps. And you see some odd little outsider down the bottom, put your post on them, and they're up the top, and this time they start to run away.

But the best of all can be you search away round the back in the place where the old runners are resting up, and you spend happy hours finding out all about where they've been. And maybe they're on for another canter.