Snake oils, gurus, “investment advisers”, experts. BP can do more

[John Hickey]

I saw a post that the other day where a BP member called out another member and accused him of being...full of shot....good stuff. Because it’s good when you know someone is watching.

Is it possible @biggerpocketsmods that you could start some sort of rankings for folks...like they post up info in stuff they own and sold or rent out so newbies wouldn’t be so in the dark as to who to listen to...

[Mindy Jensen]

Originally posted by @Joel Fine:

LinkedIn has a feature where any user can "endorse" a user they are connected to, for a particular skillset. For example I could endorse my colleague Jack for "Project Management." The endorsements are posted (in aggregated form to make it anonymous) on the user's public profile. I.e. Jack's profile would say "5 people have endorsed Jack for Project Management."

I wonder if BP could copy that. 

BiggerPockets has a similar References field where members can offer up a testimonial for someone they've worked with. 

[John Hickey]

@James Wise

Millionaire fast lane forum is one 

https://www.thefastlaneforum.c...

I was thinking of city data in a generic way 

the votes and posts that @JM Payne referred to kind of does that tho.  you just have to tap on the profile here   So that already exists.....guess if you added a downvote feature that might be interesting.... I’d probably take the downvote title on this thread....

[James Wise]

Originally posted by @John Hickey

Being objective BP seems a lot more established than that forum. BP has more than 10x the YouTube followers than that website...Gotta look up to consider making a change, not down lol.

[John Hickey]

@James Wise yes def way more established.  

as far as dwarfing 

City data.  Yelp.

Just so you know....I wasn’t saying BP should have their system   I was saying bigger sites using use ratings.

 Sure MFF smaller.  Plain and simple it’s an Awesome site.  Insane value there.  

[John Hickey]

@James Wise up not down??? Just BC your big doesn’t mean don’t watch the little guys.  

[John Hickey]

@Matt M. good stuff.  

[Matt M.]

@John Hickey

Thank you brotha!

[Account Closed]

Originally posted by @Mindy Jensen:

Originally posted by @Joel Fine:

LinkedIn has a feature where any user can "endorse" a user they are connected to, for a particular skillset. For example I could endorse my colleague Jack for "Project Management." The endorsements are posted (in aggregated form to make it anonymous) on the user's public profile. I.e. Jack's profile would say "5 people have endorsed Jack for Project Management."

I wonder if BP could copy that. 

BiggerPockets has a similar References field where members can offer up a testimonial for someone they've worked with. 

The endorsement feature is something we are considering for the company profiles in the company directory — I'd be interested to hear more feedback about this, since I know people can just upvote each other on LinkedIn having never worked together in any capacity. 

[John Hickey]

Ps I figured out my ulterior motive...I wanted to talk about what I do bc as you can see all Conversations with me end up on my investing strategy.  

So after hijacking this thread I realized I should just start a thread on my investing methods.  

  How to tame a war zone.

[Jerryll Noorden]

Originally posted by @John Hickey:

@Jerryll Noorden your the man.

 Only if you insist my man!

[Joe Splitrock]

Originally posted by @Account Closed:

Originally posted by @Mindy Jensen:

Originally posted by @Joel Fine:

LinkedIn has a feature where any user can "endorse" a user they are connected to, for a particular skillset. For example I could endorse my colleague Jack for "Project Management." The endorsements are posted (in aggregated form to make it anonymous) on the user's public profile. I.e. Jack's profile would say "5 people have endorsed Jack for Project Management."

I wonder if BP could copy that. 

BiggerPockets has a similar References field where members can offer up a testimonial for someone they've worked with. 

The endorsement feature is something we are considering for the company profiles in the company directory — I'd be interested to hear more feedback about this, since I know people can just upvote each other on LinkedIn having never worked together in any capacity. 

 I put no credibility on a skill endorsement in LinkedIn. People just click on every single suggestion for skills to endorse. I think they do it with the hopes of being endorsed back. I am connected to many people I don't even know and they endorse me for skills. I think the current feature of writing an endorsement / testimonial is way more credible. 

Also something for BP to consider is that more is not necessarily better. The forums work very well in current state. I am a big fan of simplicity over just adding features for the sake of having more features.