Threads we think could be moved to the Early Retirement Board

jamesd

There are people in the mortgage-free wannabe and debt-free sections who like to do multiple updates a day or week about their progress towards their targets. Just what works for some people.

Average retirement age are 64.7 for men and 63.1 so if early retirement is taken to mean before state pension age most people do it.

It's sadly ironic that MSE plans to introduce a sub-board of the retirement board where topics get moved to to die.

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

an Early Retirement sub-board for threads and diaries

Sadly that content description has doomed it to failure or to becoming a diaries-only section. People know that where diaries and other content are mixed the regular diary updates swamp the other content and make it pointless to try to have other discussions. Early retirement without diaries might have worked, though probably not, since early retirement is ubiquitous and just mainstream retirement planning. Diaries alone would work, probably, but without any significant participation from the regular users of this board, just attracting a different diary-oriented group that made the original proposal that was pretty much universally opposed by the existing participants.

atush

dunstonh wrote: »

If that is the purpose of the sub-forum then thank goodness it will be in a sub-forum where i never have to visit. God help us if that ever found its way to be mixed in in with the main board.

I revise my view on this now. Let all the people who want to post diaries do so in a sub forum to allow most of us to avoid reading such things. However, dont label it as something people who want help or questions should post as they will likely get lost in with the diaries and not get the responses they would get if they had posted in the main pension section.

I'm sorry if people who like posting their affairs on the internet take offence at my point of view. I just dont get this modern fascination of everything about you being posted online. If it makes you happy then thats great. However, i don't care what you had for breakfast

If it was JUST diaries i'd be fine with that. But they are talking of moving Marine life's and other threads there and I dont want that.

I think it was stupid to ask us what we thought, we all say no dont do it (apart from the OP who sponsored this and one other) and they just do it anyway.

I assume this is why they asked this on the other forum and discussed it at length before even mentioning it to us.

I have no problem with diaries here or elsewhere. I d o have a problem with them moving old threads from here.

coyrls

So a sub-forum called "Financial Independence Diaries" with no threads moved from the main forum seems like a good solution to me.

atush

Unfortunately, that is apparently Not what we will get.

jamesd

There are people who could also want to use the weekly or more frequent updating diary approach after achieving their FI goals when they are working on the retirement planning part of the task. This is a somewhat different thing from the sort of retirement planning discussed in the threads that atush has referred to.

Purplesky_2

I wonder when this is actually going to happen?

MSE Andrea? Any idea?

mgdavid

Purplesky wrote: »

I wonder when this is actually going to happen?

MSE Andrea? Any idea?

I guess it's been quietly 'delayed' so as to spare some blushes.
Best let sleeping dogs lie.

atush

No, I think they are waiting to see if resistance will die off.

I do think it will be imposed on us, just the the 'temporary' removal and merging of all t he stickies (that even less people now read)

Karmacat

I've still got this thread on my subscription list - as one of the people who would have been an incomer to an FI sub-board, I'm pretty sure most of the incomers didn't want this to be imposed on the people who use *this* board (or any board, imposition really isn't a good idea!), and have carried on with their own arrangements, or made new ones within the existing forum structure. I **think** you'd find that if it *was* set up, none of the people who originally wanted it would use it. No intrusion was meant and I'm sorry this all went pear-shaped.