Comments on: Dear Motley Fool: Please Stop Spamming Yahoo Finance

By: greenbackd

greenbackd — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:14:47 +0000

"If I accidentally read one more piece of drivel by Rick Aristotle Munarriz about Krispy Kreme Donuts or Tivo, I’ll scratch my own eyes out one at a time. I don’t know what this guy’s deal is, he seems to be one of those “buy brands you know” investors. I’ll give him this – it must take quite a bit of mental fortitude to write so prolifically about Crocs and Netflix every day of the week…my hat is off to you, sir."

Dead right. Reformed, my hat is off to you, sir.

TRB: Thx Greenback'd! Someone had to say it, I'm usually the one who opens his big mouth. lol.

By: Basant

Basant — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:17:45 +0000

I just don't click on the article if it is from 'motley-fool'. They already fooled so many so many times. Too much exposure kills everything..... At one point I thought of subscribing but then I felt too much pressured.

By: Interesting Reads 31st October 2009

Interesting Reads 31st October 2009 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:03:07 +0000

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By: Pat Shuff

Pat Shuff — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:50:21 +0000

They are apparently paid to spam touts
on Yahoo Finance. Penn West and Silvercorp
are 'showcased' picks ad infinitum, emphasis on ad. Penn West in particular has been an unmitigated disaster. YF needs some strong disinfectant.

By: pdmoney

pdmoney — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:26:16 +0000

Luckily, Yahoo Finance allows FILTERING of "news" providers.. MF long ago filtered out!

By: John (aka The Masked Financier)

John (aka The Masked Financier) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:15:51 +0000

Joshua,
Great work on the site, and particularly on this post.
I can't understand how Motley Fool and sites like it get away with promotional methods that would get a hedge fund manager or mutual fund a lengthy jail sentence.
However, on a similar subject I would be interested in your view (and that of your commenters) on the type of Adwords and Adsense spam that is promoted by "do no evil" Google. An unfortunate example here is on your very own site - I cycled through the Adwords to reach this impeccably worded (and spelt) spam, oops I meant advertisement - "ABTGwas one of our Alert; This penny Stock soar 400% Join today for Free to profit.".
This spam leads to the improbably named site - MonsterStox - http://www.monsterstox.com/.
In my opinion, Google should adopt the same approach with these ads as is taken with ads for dodgy pharmaceutical products - because they are nearly as dangerous.
Look forward to thoughts.
Keep up the good work.
John (aka The Masked Financier)

TRB: thx John!

By: David Merkel

David Merkel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:03:38 +0000

You are right, that had to be said. Even what little commentary they give varies little from piece to piece. They recycle a lot.

TRB: I'm convinced there's a Foolputer somewhere spitting this stuff out around the clock under 800 different ticker symbols. Yahoo should end it.

By: Uiucfinance

Uiucfinance — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:12:27 +0000

By signing into login finance, you can filter the news feed. Motley fool is the only one I filter out.

By: RN

RN — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:51:23 +0000

(kidding...

By: RN

RN — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:49:51 +0000

Though, as I look up, you link to Larry Kudlow, so you're not much better!