Yahoo Message Boards

Pros: Easy to find people talking about news and finance
Cons: Same as discussing current events in a Wal-Mart

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...

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.

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 ...

Pros: Free and fast to navigate and download.
Cons: Useless content by a significant number of useless participants.

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....

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

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...

Pros: Some good info from good people.
Cons: Some bad info from bad people.

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...

Pros: A lot of posts, easy to use, great research
Cons: Bad language, SPAM, lack of intelligent posts

Yahoo does a decent job with their message boards, and the problems that occur cannot be blamed on Yahoo. I will discuss the good and the bad in this epinion.

First of all, if you are looking for breadth of information, this is the place to...

Pros: Easy to navigate, good information if there
Cons: CHILDREN

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...

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

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...

Pros: lots of traffic
Cons: mostly babble

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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Pros: Insider and Profile Data.
Cons: Message Boards are like everyones; the good, the bad, and the ugly!

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...

Pros: easily accessable
Cons: attracts the rude and profane

Yahoo financial message boards are easy to get to and I have perused and gain information from posters to the boards.
Good features include fast access, most of the time, but because it is easy to use and being one of the first financial message...

Pros: Quantity
Cons: Quality

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...

Pros: Numerous Postings, Tons of Information
Cons: Spammers and lots of unreliable posts

The Yahoo Finance Message boards contain an huge amount of information. The posts are often timely and insightful, though at times they can be outright lies or even insider information leaks. How can you tell between the different types of posts and who...

Pros: Good info, Constantly updated
Cons: Crazy people share the boards with you

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...

Pros: Large number of stocks and posters, updated news
Cons: SPAM, name calling, a lack of meaningful discussion on stocks.

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. ...