Why do you participate this community (expires in 3 weeks)

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Or in other words, what do you (want to) get out of this community amd the time you spend here:

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  • Learning about investment / FIRE/ SWRs / taxes
  • Assuring myself that I am on the right track
  • Challenging, refining and further re-confirming my approach
  • Learn about other People‘s Perspective & Approach
  • Self-controlling myself that I stay on track
  • Showcasing / Teaching Others about my Approach
  • Bragging about my success
  • Spending time with a smart & interesting community
  • Trolling
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Is voting trolling while it’s not the case is actually trolling? What about the opposite? :joy:

I voted consciously.

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Yes

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I’m more interesting in learning what other people are doing and discussing ideas to get different perspectives.

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I am exactly the same. Should I tweak the options a bit?

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The point i try to make is - at least in my view, the community lives from the fact that we can disagree and get mutual value out of our different views. Just not sure if others see it the same way.

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Trolling can be a fair and genuine Motivation to attend a community. I consciously made the survey anonymous so that people can admit they like to troll :wink:

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I think this element is not fully represented. I see value in having the ideas challenged and debated over to not just get different viewpoints, but to stress test the positions and ideas themselves. A bit like how in in a court of a law you have adversarial sides and through the process you get an answer.

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The poll lacks “force of habit” as an option, which could be combined with other boxes to still reflect the original motivation.

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I see your point. Should we re-start the poll with a fresh set of questions? Or shall we let it run?

I am fine with either. My goal was just to trigger some self-reflection among participants - and to give the admin a clear sense that this wS not just about learning the one and only way of fire - but a multitude of different approaches, agreement and disagreement.

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Not surprised as those top two, I voted for both as well. Biggest single asset is the combined knowledge of the community.

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my original motivation was to dump all the useful knowledge i built up when i went above and beyond on the topic of personal finance. that was before i knew about the FIRE community.

hence lots of those guides i made in the early days.

Eventually I realized that the forum is not a good place to store that knowledge: it gets lost to the algorithm, it’s inherent way of usage as a forum which is non-wiki in its nature, moderator interference, and just time.

Also because the field of personal finance is quite shallow compared to other topics i dug into, and eventually reaching the ‘forget’ state of ‘fire and forget’ with regards to investment, my interaction decreased significantly over the past years.

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Has anyone disagreed with that?
The way I see it, the whole recent hot ‘debate’ was never about not exchanging views and prevent disagreements BUT not turning the forum into a football arena.

I do not see the value this poll is bringing with the specific choices, so I’ll pass…
(no hard feelings of course!)

Hope you are trolling here :slight_smile:

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Interesting results, and 94 individuals bothering to vote is not a small number at all.

Clearly the practical side (taxes, SWR, numbers) is the winner, but the runners up suggest there’s appetite for conversation, and we can infer that the interest is about investing/saving/lifestyle.

That should be a good message to take home with regards to potentially inflammatory topics, which I believe our mods are in fact trying hard to keep guardrailed.

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