Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Oct 10 '01
Pros: Easy to find people talking about news and finance
Cons: Same as discussing current events in a Wal-Mart
Summary: Well, I'll confess that I check in on those Yahoo! message boards from time to time. That's been a constant source of amusement during the current war we've found ourselves in and a good way to see what people thought about the miserable terrorist ... read more
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Aug 07 '08
Pros: Large number of stocks and posters, updated news
Cons: SPAM, name calling, a lack of meaningful discussion on stocks.
Summary: When I was a kid growing up, my parents would go out every Saturday night to have a date night without the kids. We didn’t have a lot of money back then, so every weekend, my sister and I were treated to a night of SPAM and tater tots. We loved it. ... read more
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Jul 09 '04
Pros: A virtual soapbox where one can voice their honest opinion, easy to use. No cost.
Cons: Can be hostile. Opinions often have nothing to do with subject matter. Questionable censorship.
Summary: While I often enjoy bawdy humor and total honesty at that, I find the Yahoo! Message Boards to be too much to handle. William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies and Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery somehow come to mind. I'm ... read more
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Apr 13 '01
Pros: Easy to navigate, good information if there
Cons: CHILDREN
Summary: I started reading the Yahoo message board about 3 months ago, primarily following the company that I work for. Most days, it's nothing more than a soap opera filled with childish, immature people who have nothing better to do than slam others and other ... read more
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Mar 27 '01
Pros: The boards are generally fast loading and efficient.
Cons: It's a breeding pool for every scamming and spamming doofus in the cyber-universe
Summary: The BOTTOMLINE
Let me start off with the bottomline: AVOID the Yahoo Finance message boards like the plague. Worthless messages multiply there by the hour like mold on old cheese. It's the supreme waste of time, effort and ... read more
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Oct 29 '00
Pros: fast, wide audience, knowledge, updating, easy to read, ignore button
Cons: only 1 message at a time; too much spam
Summary: Yahoo's message boards are the best. In fact, every time there's a defamation suit about a CEO or company being maligned, it's always taking place on Yahoo's turf. There's a reason for that. All eyes are on Yahoo's Boards. The same can't be said for ... read more
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Jul 01 '00
Pros: Insider and Profile Data.
Cons: Message Boards are like everyones; the good, the bad, and the ugly!
Summary: Yahoo's message boards are like everyone elses so reader beware! There's just no way around it, those who post on a message board have some purpose and their motivation usually unfolds into a clear enough picture for even the most casual of observers ... read more
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Jun 20 '00
Pros: Many different opinions
Cons: Many opinions are misleading or downright lies!
Summary: The Yahoo message boards should be taken with a mountainful of salt. Most of the information there is pure hyperbole. The average board there probably contains about 10% substance, 70% spam, and 20% outright lies. Do not trust any information on the ... read more
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May 30 '00
Pros: Free and fast to navigate and download.
Cons: Useless content by a significant number of useless participants.
Summary: Well I finally did it!
I had previously thought of reviewing the Yahoo! Finance Message boards to give them the inferior rating that I thought they deserved.
What held me back was this gut feeling that I would be a hypocrite. ... read more
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May 09 '00
Pros: lots of traffic
Cons: mostly babble
Summary: There are several things you want to know about a stock you are invested in, or want to invest in.
- is the business fundamentally sound
- is the sector exploding
- is there enthusiasm (positive or negative) about the stock
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May 08 '00
Pros: Lots of Goodies to be found: hard-to-find news, analysis, market sentiment, LOTS of posts/coverage
Cons: Spammers, misleading information, silly debates/conversation of no substance
Summary: One of the most annoying things about Message Boards is that you'll always find spammers advertising their own sites and sometimes, even other products. Just remember that there are many mercenaries in the financial field out there!
Yahoo's ... read more
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Mar 13 '00
Pros: Some good info from good people.
Cons: Some bad info from bad people.
Summary: Yahoo's financial area overall is a very useful resource. It's got lots of charts, financial news, performance numbers, filings, press releases, info on inside investors, and just about everything else I could ever want to know in considering whether to ... read more
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Mar 08 '00
Pros: Your voice on a level playing field, keeps you from getting on the s___t list.
Cons: ?
Summary: I started reading the message board about the company that I work for, Fort James Corporation, and have heard a lot of "scoop" on the corporation and things that are not general memo type information. It has expressed the working relationship ... read more
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Jan 25 '00
Pros: Good info, Constantly updated
Cons: Crazy people share the boards with you
Summary: Yahoo message boards are a great stock tool if they are used right. There is alot of very good information on this site but the thing is, a few people just get in there and kind of ruin it for everybody. If your going to sign up to these message boards ... read more
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Jan 24 '00
Pros: Quantity
Cons: Quality
Summary: The Yahoo message boards are great. They have more traffic than most other boards, and I have found some great stocks looking here. But they are increasingly becoming full of spam. Its almost to the point that I have reading their stuff because their ... read more
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