fasty
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Post by fasty on Aug 16, 2016 19:19:24 GMT
I have discovered an amusing new measure which I regard as the Peer-to-Peer-Feeding-Frenzy-Index. To be truthful, it is simply the number of people viewing if you go to the top index of this board. Once upon a time, the Funding Circle forum consistently had lots of viewers much of the time, perhaps 50, while most other forums typically had only one or two. Now the tables are completely turned. Typically I am seeing Saving Stream consistently well in the lead with around 45 viewers at any one time, whereas Funding Circle has only one or two. Go take a look! If I trust the wisdom of the crowd, does this measure indicate where the good deals are? You have answered your own question. If you trust the wisdom of the crowd.......... But to me it means absolutely nothing. Admittedly my observation was slightly tongue-in-cheek, but the change in forum activity does coincide with my own careful decision to move significant funds from FC to SS. I don't think that the large swing in activity from one forum to another is entirely insignificant.
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blender
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Post by blender on Aug 16, 2016 21:46:51 GMT
You have answered your own question. If you trust the wisdom of the crowd.......... But to me it means absolutely nothing. Admittedly my observation was slightly tongue-in-cheek, but the change in forum activity does coincide with my own careful decision to move significant funds from FC to SS. I don't think that the large swing in activity from one forum to another is entirely insignificant. I think that's right. The members of this forum tend to be the engaged and smarter lenders (not likely to get much disagreement there) and so the number of readers on each board does say something about which platforms are of current interest to the smarter money. It's a good idea to read the board before deciding on the meaning of the interest - it could be a disastrous string of defaults. In the case of FC the low level of interest coincides with a lack of opportunity over and above switching on Autobid and doing something else with spare time.
BTW, happy, chameleons are not able to see in the dark. We can see ultra violet but not infra red. But our eyes are independent - two separate images - and we can focus and establish range with one eye. We can spot a small fly at 5 to 10m, which not many reptiles can do.
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