Our main focus is to ensure that Company reports contain relevant content. (We really hate how on other sites how you have to wade through a bunch of outdated stuff!). Often, content tends to date rather quickly, which is why we make Straws and Valuations go 'stale' 6 months after they are posted. (They will always stay on the personal report of the person that created them, but they wont appear on ranked lists). The creator of the Straw or Valuation gets a notice when their content goes stale, and they can decide whether to keep it (reactivate it), edit or delete it. In effect, a manual reactivation requires that the content creator to still vouche for the Straw's relevance. It also acts as a reminder that certain perspectives may need to be updated.

Very good question! Let us investigate this right away -- looks like it should have gone through. It might take us a few days, but whatever happens we'll ensure you get those trades at yesterday's price. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Thanks - those TGG trades now show as having gone through yesterday at $1.19, so all good. Any idea what happened?

At present it's based on gross performance including both open and closed positions. We have a weighting algorithm that helps adjust for number of recommendations and length of time. In the near future, we're giving the whole system an overhaul. It'll be much better, and we're already in testing..

We assume all dividends are reinvested to get a fair total return calculation.

Hi Dangles -- excellent point. We think it's important for Straws to decay so as to keep content relevant and uncluttered. But there's probably no reason why a re-activation needs to come up in the newsfeed. We'll add it to our list of fixes. You can find more about stale straws here: https://help.strawman.com/en/articles/2658255-what-are-stale-straws

Edits seem to appear for me, but if you can find an example of where they don't it'll help us pin down any bugs. Cheers

It seems like edits have the effect of immediate change to the original post within the feed, which is perfect really, rather than adding a subsequent edited straw or post at the top of the feed in addition to the previous version further down. This reduces clutter and duplication. That's how it seems to work for me anyway.

OK Anthill, I now see what you were referring to - Strawman, when we edit old straws, like straws that are 6 months old, these aren't added to the newsfeed. They are only added if they are updated valuations or new straws. If we were able to scroll down to straws posted 6 months ago, we would probably find the newsfeed would be displaying the newer edited version, but still time-stamped 6 months ago. This happens every time I edit a straw that is stale instead of reactivating it unchanged. Reactivated straws are added to the top of the newsfeed, but if I edit those straws instead, they are not. It's a bit inconsistent. If anything, edited straws are likely to be more relevant than ones that have been reactivated with no changes - as a general rule of course (not in every case), so the treatment of them seems a little strange (in terms of edited vs unedited stale straws that have been reactivated).

ah yes, i see what you mean. I completely agree and we'll get this change added to our list of things to do. Well spotted!