Monevator becomes paid membership blog

Beddie

I find many of the posts far too long and rambling to be of any use or interest, so I won't be paying.

gt94sss2

Eco_Miser said:

As I understand it, the free content will be much the same as it has been, the paid content being additional material, especially the 'naughty' stuff on the £8 a month tier.

What do you mean by "naughty" stuff?

RacingDriver

gt94sss2 said:

Eco_Miser said:

As I understand it, the free content will be much the same as it has been, the paid content being additional material, especially the 'naughty' stuff on the £8 a month tier.

What do you mean by "naughty" stuff?

Active investing (rather than passive)

coastline

Beddie said:

I find many of the posts far too long and rambling to be of any use or interest, so I won't be paying.

and the constant moan about brexit and how its destroyed the UK. Why can't the poster just get over it ? There's been some decent content over the years at the same time. Still there's more and more data and links on other websites . Not bad on here at the end of the day.

OldScientist

coastline said:

Beddie said:

I find many of the posts far too long and rambling to be of any use or interest, so I won't be paying.

and the constant moan about brexit and how its destroyed the UK. Why can't the poster just get over it ? There's been some decent content over the years at the same time. Still there's more and more data and links on other websites . Not bad on here at the end of the day.

The site owner is entitled to their opinion and entitled, within the law, to express it (in the same way other commercial media such as GB News, Telegraph, Mail, Guardian, Mirror etc. are all entitled to theirs). If you don't like that aspect of the site, don't read it and don't pay.

However, while I think I understand their reasons for introducing it, I'm not sure I'll be paying the subscription.

dealyboy

It would be unkind to say that if they were better at their investment strategies they wouldn't need the subscription, so I won't say it! 

m_c_s

coastline said:

and the constant moan about brexit and how its destroyed the UK. Why can't the poster just get over it ? 

His anti Brexit rants are quite pathetic and for me his admission of voting for Corbyn at the last General Election suggests some underlying bias or poor judgment. Comments section is also sometimes full of left wing nonsense. For me Moneyvator is too political to be of use as an unbiased source of financial information.
But ofcourse he is free to have his views and run the site as he wishes.

Albermarle

dealyboy said:

It would be unkind to say that if they were better at their investment strategies they wouldn't need the subscription, so I won't say it! 

I always assumed from the way it is written, it was more of a hobby for them. Perhaps though not one they were prepared to keep losing money with.

I remember when Motley Fool site was free and promoted index investing as the best way, they then introduced subscriptions and suddenly buying specific promoted shares was the way forward. Hopefully that won't be the case here either

Please god they do not go down the Motley fool route, really rubbish nowadays.

EthicsGradient

m_c_s said:

coastline said:

and the constant moan about brexit and how its destroyed the UK. Why can't the poster just get over it ? 

His anti Brexit rants are quite pathetic and for me his admission of voting for Corbyn at the last General Election suggests some underlying bias or poor judgment. Comments section is also sometimes full of left wing nonsense. For me Moneyvator is too political to of be use as an unbiased source of financial information.
But ofcourse he is free to have his views and run the site as he wishes.

Because voting for the Tory PMs of Boris Johnson and then Liz Truss shows such sound judgement!!! The people who brought the term "moron premium" into use.

An unbiased financial assessment of Brexit is that it has knocked a few percent off our GDP. There may be other reasons people voted for it, but the general financial summary was, and still is, "not a good idea, overall".

dealyboy

m_c_s said:

coastline said:

and the constant moan about brexit and how its destroyed the UK. Why can't the poster just get over it ? 

His anti Brexit rants are quite pathetic and for me his admission of voting for Corbyn at the last General Election suggests some underlying bias or poor judgment. Comments section is also sometimes full of left wing nonsense. For me Moneyvator is too political to be of use as an unbiased source of financial information.
But ofcourse he is free to have his views and run the site as he wishes.

@m_c_s ... indeed, it is quite off-putting ... and today I noticed some sniping at Liz Truss in the new free article.