Suggestions (should be a main topic under the "The PopSci Predictions Exchange" heading)

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03/08/08 at 2:17 am

So here is my first suggestion.
Since there are starting to be large quantities of IPOs, newand old. I'd like to be able to make a selection list of ipo's I'm watching but haven't the PPX cash to invest in yet. As of now I have one stock of each of my future fav's purchased so I can watch themas my future sure things with one easy glance at my portfolio . This technique leaves a few hundred fake bucks wrapped up in stocks that I just want to be able to watch on a moment to moment basis without all the rummaging through stocks I care nothing for. If there were just a "watch" function or "Favorites List" that would make my PPX obsession more, easy, fun, complete. Thank you.

(p.s. For ppx administrators to alleviate themselves of all the PPXers' constant gripping about a lack of interest/care given to the game all that would be nessesary would be a short weekly/ daily newsletter from the "commander and chief" in the forum or by email just talking about whats going on, what is in the works, etc. A little dialog would go a long way, and save you, ppx administrators, some work)

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m_novotny

03/08/08 at 1:36 pm

Jesus Christ!

I think it'd be nice (really really nice) if the ppx staff would fix the errors present in ppx before they start adding new stuff like your so-called "favorites list" or yet another forum sub-heading.

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saddog

03/09/08 at 7:40 pm

Isn't politics a sort of science too? If there was some kind of IPO that had to do with politics, where would that go. Some of the IPOs already on here directly tie in on politics. I mean, bills have to get approved and signed by the Congress and the president. Some of these IPOs will depend on who will be president in 2010 or any other date. I think a Political Science page would be in order. Then IPOs having to do with politics would go under that. Like one I've come up with that is ELECTION. Who will be in office by 2009, a democrat or a republican. Or PRIMARY. Who will win the democratic presidential primary. There's still time to add that one.

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Megan Miller

03/14/08 at 2:09 pm

I'll keep an eye on this thread to see what you guys are coming up with. the "watch" idea is cool--we'll discuss whether/how we could implement that in the future.

As for political science, I'll have to think about that. A straight-up politics section could be a little tangential to our sci-tech theme, but maybe we can find a tech spin.

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awedel

03/17/08 at 3:19 pm

I was doing the exact same thing...buying 1 share of a stock that I wanted to keep an eye on. You end up with a big portfolio and then it makes it hard to do watch what you were trying to watch in the first place.

First however, I would like to see the current problems fixed. My biggest gripe right now is that alot of times I have trouble clicking all but the Contest and Help tabs. The others just become inactive links until I restart IE.

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Kubie

03/19/08 at 10:45 am

I would like to see a "button" to mark all threads as read. It would be nice to be able to clear the new flag off all the threads I just am not going to ever read and really don't even care to open (anything with the word bozo for example). Perhaps it would be best if it cleared a section at a time rather than the entire forum.