RichardKen

Thank you all for your great responses. It has been quite fascinating jumping around from forum to forum asking questions and taking notes. It seems like each forum has their own distinct attitude and environment. Some more friendly than others. The participation by the founder truely does make a difference in many forums I have researched. I do admire the respect members have amongst one another in this forum. I ran across a Forex forum today where a member was complaining at a moderator because the mod had switched his signature to something like "I am a complete noob". Very childish and surprised to see the owner allow such behavior by a moderator. Soultrader, I will be interested in sending you an email. I have a couple questions that I am interested in asking forum owners. Thank you all for your time. Regards, Richard Ken

Hello members of Traders Laboratory, I am a college student doing a sociology research report on online communities and forums. I have been a viewer of several trading related forums and have been visiting this forum frequently. I would like to receive a few feedbacks from the members of this forum. Upon comparing trading forums, I must say that I am highly impressed with Traders Laboratory. The forum attitude and environment is based on quality content. Many other forums severely lack this attitude. Well established forums have now gone down the drain due to this. My questions are as follows: 1. What makes a forum special? How did Traders Laboratory establish such a high quality attitude? It seems that every single member contributing offers quality content only. 2. What makes a forum lose its touch? It seems that the majority of trading forums do not attract quality members due to its environment. 3. What made you join this forum or any other forum you currently participate in? Thank you for spending the time to read this. All comments are welcome. Richard Ken