How to Update "Years of Experience" On The Forums

[Scott Trench]

Hi Everyone - you may have noticed that we recently added some credentials to your forum cards. If you hover over my name, for example, you will see my posts, votes, # of investments, and investing experience in years:

While certainly not perfect, we added these thinking that they will be just a couple of additional pieces of information to give you guys context about who is providing the information you are reading in these forums. 

Anyways - most people default to "zero" years of experience - in that case, the stat simply isn't shown.

If you DO have experience and want to add it, here's how to do so:

1) Navigate to your profile.

2) Click this button: 

3) Select your real estate "occupation" and enter in your "start date": 

We will be working on an easier way to let you update your years of experience, which will come soon. In the meantime, feel free to follow these instructions and show off your experience. Personally, I think it makes a difference when diving into one of the many great debates here.

[Natalie Kolodij]

Originally posted by @Allison Leung:

Hi @Natalie Kolodij -- Thanks for your question. 

To explain a bit more about this new feature: Your top subjects are calculated by looking at which topics you post about frequently and the upvotes you receive on your posts. The best thing you can do to change your top subjects is to respond to questions and start discussions in the forums on topics that you want to appear on your top subjects.

So basically, the way to get top subjects on your profile is to talk about them and earn credibility!

Unfortunately, for example, right now there is an ongoing thread with someone blatantly arguing his tax fraud. We're 5 pages deep. 

Now his profile says taxes are something he specializes in because he's been arguing/posting on this topic for days. 

I think there maybe needs to be more weight on how many VOTES in a topic, not just comments in that topic.