Happy Friday, Dear Reader!
I didn’t realize it until just now, but for whatever reason, none of the articles I tagged for this week’s roundup were investing related. So we have “money saving articles” and “other” as the two categories.
I hope you enjoy ‘em. 
Money-Saving Articles
- Save Money on Gas: Buy a Scooter from Debt Free Adventure
- Take Advantage of Lifestyle Deflation from Five Cent Nickel
- Save Money on Home Maintenance with Simple DIY from Fiscal Geek
- One More Refinance from JoeTaxpayer
- Your Expensive Luxury Car Doesn’t Impress Me from Len Penzo
Other Personal Finance Articles
- The Biggest Threat to Long-Term Wealth from Monevator
- Finding Balance Between a Sideline and a Day Job from Green Panda Treehouse
- Do You Need Mortgage Life Insurance Protection? from Wealth Pilgrim
- Interview with a Financial Psychologist from Enemy of Debt
- Buying a House: Is it an Investment or a Home? from Money Help for Christians
- Need to Consolidate Debt? Lending Club May Have the Solution from Bible Money Matters
Oblivious Investor on Tour
- Why Aren’t Annuities More Popular? hosted by Morningstar Advisor
Blog Carnivals
- Carnival of Personal Finance hosted by Canadian Finance Blog
- Carnival of Financial Planning hosted by The Skilled Investor
- Carnival of Money Stories hosted by Personal Finance Journey
- Festival of Stocks hosted by Financial Uproar
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Thanks for picking up my post Mike!
I noticed you’ve closed comments on old posts. Are you being overrun with spam, too?
Not spam, really. Akismet seems to work quite effectively for me.
It had more to do with the fact that the overwhelming majority of comments I got on old posts were people asking for personalized portfolio advice. On a typical day, I’d spend 2-3 hours answering such comments (as well as emails of a similar nature and emails seeking tax advice from my tax site).
But it served no business purpose. (Most people didn’t even reply to say thanks, so I’m fairly confident they didn’t go buy a book or share my site with a friend either.)
So I turned off comments on posts older than 2 days and added the following paragraph to my contact page:
“I do not provide personalized investment or tax advice. So if, for example, you’re looking for somebody to comment on your current or proposed portfolio, I’d suggest either posting at the Bogleheads forum or looking for a local, fee-only financial planner.”
….as well as something analogous on my tax site.
Ah, wow, 2-3 hours! I can see how that could an issue — I’m starting to accrue them, too, and without your laser-like focus I feel poorly placed to answer them.
Occasionally a reader will add something useful on an old post, that’s the only trouble. But more often it is just a new blogger trying to comment on 100 blogs in 20 days or whatever else he’s read he should do.
Did you add a function to your Thesis Functions to automatically turn them off? Care to share? (Thanks!
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The other thing I’m thinking of trying is full posts on the front page again. I’ll let you know how it goes!
“Occasionally a reader will add something useful on an old post, that’s the only trouble.”
Yep, no doubt about it. Turning off comments is definitely a trade off.
“Did you add a function to your Thesis Functions to automatically turn them off?”
It’s just in WP settings actually. Settings -> discussion -> automatically close comments on posts older than ___ days.
Ah, cool. Thanks Mike.
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