Not Another Fluffy/hairy Savings Diary

le_loup

Dear forum managers
Is it possible you to set up a separate forum for all these fluffy/hairy, pink/ginger, I love/hate you, oh you're so clever/stupid, threads that are polluting these, ehem (joke) , more serious threads?
Could be I'm a minority of one and that everyone else wants the clutter.

Lokolo_2

That's not very nice is it? I quite like reading all the Savings diaries of people as it is motivating and warming to see others doing well too. :j

Farel01

Lokolo_2 wrote: »

That's not very nice is it? I quite like reading all the Savings diaries of people as it is motivating and warming to see others doing well too. :j

See; they deserve their own sub forum

Jegersmart

This thread is serious.

I like them, although I don't read them all by any means. There may be a case for splitting the saving and investing parts but somehow and at some stage one leads to the other normally...>:

Don't read if you don't want to?

J

cathybird

A good many of the investment questions posted on this forum come from beginners and ask fairly basic questions - are you too "serious" for those too? ...

The savings diaries are by and large clearly marked as such, therefore easily avoided if you don't want to read them, I would have thought.

Or by "fluffy", "pink" and "not serious", do you mean "women"? You'd prefer the little women to leave what should be a serious, intellectual forum to the chaps? ...

grey_gym_sock

i find it easy to spot these threads from the title, and not open them. (unless it's a thread started by a 21-y-o, in which case i read it so i can have a laugh at them ... no, seriously.)

cathybird

I'd add that MoneySavingExpert as a site was set up to help ordinary punters get to grips with how best to use their money, on a basic, day-to-day, ordinary level (which is what a savings diary is about). It wasn't set up as a forum for people with large investments who wanted to discuss how their large investments are going. There's no doubt a place for that but it's the savings diaries that seem to me to fit best with what MSE is about overall.

alanq

There is a Debt Free Diaries sub-forum so why not one for Savings Diaries? That way anyone who wishes to write or read diaries is happy and so are those that don't.

talexuser

I don't mind them as long as they have a title that adequately describes the contents. Then, if there's nothing to be learnt, you don't have to read them. We ALL had to learn at one point, I've learnt a lot from this forum, so a little bit of generosity to others could also be included in the agenda.

ChopperST

MSE clearly has people from all walks of life from prince to pauper and everyone in between. There are also clearly some very intelligent and knowledgeable individuals that lurk on the forums and offer their advice for free to help others.

However there appears to also be a similar group that seem to want to snipe and moan at some people's posts, correcting every little spelling or grammatical mistake posters make and almost beating them down and making them feel 12 inches tall for asking a question in the first place.

Agree that a savings diary sub-forum would be useful but if you dont want to read a thread is pretty obvious what you need to do?

ColdIron

ChopperST wrote: »

However there appears to also be a similar group that seem to want to snipe and moan at some people's posts, correcting every little spelling or grammatical mistake posters make and almost beating them down and making them feel 12 inches tall for asking a question in the first place.

Agree that a savings diary sub-forum would be useful but if you dont want to read a thread is pretty obvious what you need to do?

There's an apostrophe in don't