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bogleheads.org is a forum for the discussion of conservative investing approaches, but it ends up tying into proactive and insightful discussions about all sort

• jackcosgrove 10y ago
  Bogleheads is self-contradictory in some ways. The Boglehead philosophy is to buy and hold assets without frequent trading. And yet the discussions are filled with financial noise. For a group of simple buy-and-holders, they like to micromanage (at least with words on the web) minute financial decisions. A Boglehead thread should be something like this: 9/2/2016 Username said: I began regularly buying XYZ index fund. 9/2/2056 Username said: I began regularly drawing down XYZ index fund. That's it. Instead they chinwag about tiny personal expenditures. I think a forum is not the best medium for such a community, given that a forum consisting of my model thread would be moribund. There are some nuggets of financial wisdom, but for a lot of people there being a Boglehead is just a slogan.