topic Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter in myFICO® Forums Technical Help

Create More Forums With Less Clutter

fused — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:25:27 GMT

I would like myfico to create more specific forums, ones that are shorter and not a 100 pages long. General Credit Questions Forum could be subdivided into one forum for each category, like this:

Credit Scoring 101

Credit Repair

Credit Cards

Mortgages/REFIs/foreclosing/HELOC

Loans (including personal, student and auto)

Collections/Charge-Offs

Bankruptcy/Tax Liens

Disputes/DV/MOV

Success Stories.

I feel this is necessary since this forum is not even four months old and we are closing in on 25 thousand posts. It's becoming difficult to sift through all this. Any forum I did not List? Anyone agree?

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:58:08 GMT

Hey Fused! Barry and myself have discussed on and off new boards that could be created. It's probably pretty safe to say we'll be breaking out into more forums in the near future.

I think as far as "credit repair" goes, we may have to focus on a wording change for something like that, mainly because we don't want to accidentally encourage the wrong type of credit repair discussion.

The others sound good to me, though!

I'll be talking to Barry about this in the coming weeks, and I'm sure we'll have a new set of boards. It's overwhelming to everyone right about now, I'm sure!

On the up side, I didn't expect this community to be so popular this quickly! It's great that we're getting to a point where we *have* to branch out!

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

MidnightVoice — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:00:34 GMT

Don't forget the special forum for "Politics, Religion and Sex"

It is always a fun one

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

fused — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:16:13 GMT

MidnightVoice wrote:
Don't forget the special forum for "Politics, Religion and Sex"

It is always a fun one

Ok, its now a three man race for most amusing poster: Midnight, Noah and TNWM!

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

fused — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:17:01 GMT

Raine wrote:
Hey Fused! Barry and myself have discussed on and off new boards that could be created. It's probably pretty safe to say we'll be breaking out into more forums in the near future.

I think as far as "credit repair" goes, we may have to focus on a wording change for something like that, mainly because we don't want to accidentally encourage the wrong type of credit repair discussion.

The others sound good to me, though!

I'll be talking to Barry about this in the coming weeks, and I'm sure we'll have a new set of boards. It's overwhelming to everyone right about now, I'm sure!

On the up side, I didn't expect this community to be so popular this quickly! It's great that we're getting to a point where we *have* to branch out!

Splendid! Cannot wait to see what you folks come up with.

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:52:47 GMT

I wanna see a listing of the top posters so we can see who's the biggest loser.

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:55:36 GMT

MidnightVoice wrote:
Don't forget the special forum for "Politics, Religion and Sex"

It is always a fun one

And a sure way to establish oneself as a post wh*re.

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

fused — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:34:17 GMT

Noah_Bodie wrote:
I wanna see a listing of the top posters so we can see who's the biggest loser.

And how might we determine who the big loser is?

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:34:03 GMT

Let's not forget the fora for goldfish fanciers and UFOlogists, too.

The pictures I saw on YouTube were really grainy, but I KNOW that was the basement of the Fair-Isaac HQ where they took the Roswell crash survivors. I can tell because there was this barely legible sticker above a workstation that said, "going for 850!" I'm assuming the "850" wasn't referring to light-years...

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:36:06 GMT

@fused111 wrote:

I would like myfico to create more specific forums, ones that are shorter and not a 100 pages long. General Credit Questions Forum could be subdivided into one forum for each category, like this:

Credit Scoring 101
Credit Repair
Credit Cards
Mortgages/REFIs/foreclosing/HELOC
Loans (including personal, student and auto)
Collections/Charge-Offs
Bankruptcy/Tax Liens
Disputes/DV/MOV
Success Stories.

I feel this is necessary since this forum is not even four months old and we are closing in on 25 thousand posts. It's becoming difficult to sift through all this. Any forum I did not List? Anyone agree?

Great ideas...only let's call "Credit Repair" "Credit Recovery" instead.

I am planning on stickying a thread called "Postnuclear Credit" designed for people who wound up in a deep (below 500) FICO hole to post their stories and tactics.

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:42:31 GMT

fused111 wrote:

And how might we determine who the big loser is?

Most posts equals biggest loser. However, that's so CIC, and this is FI. As such, we need to have an algorithm.

Loser Score = Number of Posts / Number of Days Since Joining

Higher score means a bigger loser.

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

Tuscani — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:44:49 GMT

Noah_Bodie wrote:

fused111 wrote:

And how might we determine who the big loser is?

Most posts equals biggest loser. However, that's so CIC, and this is FI. As such, we need to have an algorithm.

Loser Score = Number of Posts / Number of Days Since Joining

Higher score means a bigger loser.

Hmmm.. I wonder where I fit in?

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:58:16 GMT

Oh, I see myself on that medal platform with ya.

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

Tuscani — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:10:18 GMT

At least I am not alone!

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

MidnightVoice — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:06:03 GMT

Tuscani wrote:

Noah_Bodie wrote:

fused111 wrote:

And how might we determine who the big loser is?

Most posts equals biggest loser. However, that's so CIC, and this is FI. As such, we need to have an algorithm.

Loser Score = Number of Posts / Number of Days Since Joining

Higher score means a bigger loser.

Hmmm.. I wonder where I fit in?

Moderators don't count

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

fused — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:03:01 GMT

MidnightVoice wrote:

Tuscani wrote:

Noah_Bodie wrote:

fused111 wrote:

And how might we determine who the big loser is?

Most posts equals biggest loser. However, that's so CIC, and this is FI. As such, we need to have an algorithm.

Loser Score = Number of Posts / Number of Days Since Joining

Higher score means a bigger loser.

Hmmm.. I wonder where I fit in?

Moderators don't count

Then Noah stands alone!

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:05:54 GMT

3/19 - 6/30 = 103 DAYS

All numbers =/103

posts 538 =5.32

Page views 11852=115

Read -27581=267

logins-197= 1.91

minutes=11348= 110

So that is almost 2 hours a day.

How about sum of Fico start and sum of fico now.

1588 3/07

1875 6/07

287 points /103 days = 2.786 points per DAY.

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:53:55 GMT

Another suggested catagory. Credit In The News.

Whether it's a court decision, new laws proposed or signed into law, or just a helpful or interesting credit story in the news. Sometimes the consumer reporters really hit a homerun on the issue. Other times, while their heart is in the right place, their advice is either misplaced, weak, or not completely informed.

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

MidnightVoice — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:55:14 GMT

Noah_Bodie wrote:
Another suggested catagory. Credit In The News.

Whether it's a court decision, new laws proposed or signed into law, or just a helpful or interesting credit story in the news. Sometimes the consumer reporters really hit a homerun on the issue. Other times, while their heart is in the right place, their advice is either misplaced, weak, or not completely informed.

Try this thread.

http://ficoforums.myfico.com/fico/board/message?board.id=forumsfeedback&thread.id=147

And volunteer!!

Re: Create More Forums With Less Clutter

fused — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:35:57 GMT

Midnight wrote:

Other forums I know have a "News Page" where links, and legally acceptable partial stoties below those links, are regularly posted, usually by volunteer board members. Obviously, the news and links posted are relevant to the subject nature of the board!!

Just a thought, brought on by several good news links that have been posted, and then dropped off the first page of the forum. A news page keeps such things available longer, and any really relevant ones can be stuck.
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What are stoties? I'm bored, better bring back the spellnig thread.