Comments on: Networth IQ Comments http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/networth-iq.html personal finance blog with anecdotes, advice and commentary. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:41:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Neo http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/networth-iq.html/comment-page-1#comment-2510 Neo Wed, 14 Dec 2005 06:09:21 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/?p=381#comment-2510 I recently started graphing the net worth for various PF bloggers (with the help of Personal Finance Advice), I would be interested in including yours if you would like. To get you up to date, please send over your net worth data for the past four months. [link removed because it's dead] Neo I recently started graphing the net worth for various PF bloggers (with the help of Personal Finance Advice), I would be interested in including yours if you would like. To get you up to date, please send over your net worth data for the past four months.

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Neo

]]> By: jim http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/networth-iq.html/comment-page-1#comment-1621 jim Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:39:51 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/?p=381#comment-1621 Ryan, Glad to hear the comments were taken well, I figured I'd mention my thoughts and give you guys a little bit of "publicity." If nothing else, you got Rick signed up. :) I think you guys at NetworthIQ are doing a great job and the problems you face are systemic to any site where there is no way to audit people's entries. Perhaps you could add something in which people indicate how often they intend to update (be it monthly, quarterly, or yearly) so you know if someone's fallen behind or if they only meant to update it quarterly (which is a reasonable interval). Perhaps an email to remind them would be a possibility (if they request it)? Ryan,
Glad to hear the comments were taken well, I figured I’d mention my thoughts and give you guys a little bit of “publicity.” If nothing else, you got Rick signed up. :)

I think you guys at NetworthIQ are doing a great job and the problems you face are systemic to any site where there is no way to audit people’s entries. Perhaps you could add something in which people indicate how often they intend to update (be it monthly, quarterly, or yearly) so you know if someone’s fallen behind or if they only meant to update it quarterly (which is a reasonable interval). Perhaps an email to remind them would be a possibility (if they request it)?

]]> By: Ryan Williams http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/networth-iq.html/comment-page-1#comment-1620 Ryan Williams Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:05:02 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/?p=381#comment-1620 Jim - Thanks, this is great feedback. We appreciate your honesty. The top net worth list is going away in the next release (to be replaced by recent entries), and some more guidance will be added so that will hopefully solve a couple issues. I don't think we want to remove users off of the listings for inactivity quite yet, but it is a very interesting idea for gauging the seriousness (and validity) of users, and something we hadn't considered. Maybe after six months or even a year, but as much as we'd love to have people updating it every month, we can't really expect it. Updating it quarterly, semi-annually, or annually adds a lot of value to the comparisions, IMO. We'll think about what we can do in this area. Initially, we'll probably go ahead and remove some questionable ones, and add a verification step to the sign-up. Rick - Thanks for sticking with us. We've been kicking around the reminder idea. In theory this was supposed to be done in the monthyly newsletter, but we haven't been the best at getting that out every month, and receiving the newsletter is optionsal, so a simple reminder would probably be more effective. Jim – Thanks, this is great feedback. We appreciate your honesty. The top net worth list is going away in the next release (to be replaced by recent entries), and some more guidance will be added so that will hopefully solve a couple issues. I don’t think we want to remove users off of the listings for inactivity quite yet, but it is a very interesting idea for gauging the seriousness (and validity) of users, and something we hadn’t considered. Maybe after six months or even a year, but as much as we’d love to have people updating it every month, we can’t really expect it. Updating it quarterly, semi-annually, or annually adds a lot of value to the comparisions, IMO. We’ll think about what we can do in this area. Initially, we’ll probably go ahead and remove some questionable ones, and add a verification step to the sign-up.

Rick – Thanks for sticking with us. We’ve been kicking around the reminder idea. In theory this was supposed to be done in the monthyly newsletter, but we haven’t been the best at getting that out every month, and receiving the newsletter is optionsal, so a simple reminder would probably be more effective.

]]> By: Rick http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/networth-iq.html/comment-page-1#comment-1615 Rick Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:55:28 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/?p=381#comment-1615 I totally agree. I went and checked out their site after seeing it used in your blog. I like it, but noticed the same exact problems. I will still use it as I think that it is a neat idea. Maybe they should send out an update reminder at the end of every month to update the info so people don't forget about it or lag behind. -Rick I totally agree. I went and checked out their site after seeing it used in your blog. I like it, but noticed the same exact problems.

I will still use it as I think that it is a neat idea. Maybe they should send out an update reminder at the end of every month to update the info so people don’t forget about it or lag behind.

-Rick

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