Forum etiquette

[MaxPowers]

What are the rules about for asking advice on a portfolio or a specific stock? Asking "What stock should I invest in?" or "I want to invest in this, this and this. What do you think?" Or what about asking someone to use something they pay for to get an article, or a tool like morningstar tools. Can you tell me some questions or topics that just should not be discussed or asked around here? I am new to these forums and investing. Trying to stay under the radar.
The knowledge of many is always greater than any one person. What other good investment forums are there out there?

[sweeps]

There aren't any specific rules against discussing those things.

Where problems happen is when someone crosses the line from discussing to promoting a stock/tool/website/book for their own self-interest. That is not allowed and the moderators will edit the post, delete the post, or possibly ban the user.

[jIM_Ohio]

This forum has knowledgable investors... the issue I would guess is that few of the investors do individual stocks, so discussing stock picks here might not get enough opinions to develop a consensus. Even with mutual funds, not everyone here is investing for the same goals, so the mutual fund advice might not have enough responses to get consensus.

[disneysteve]

I agree with sweeps and Jim. No problem at all discussing specific investments here, but you may not get the kind of response you are looking for.

[sweeps]

might not get enough opinions to develop a consensus

On the other hand, often times "the consensus" turns out to be wrong anyway.