Agree, I had certainly assumed this would be how the community would operate, something like the toggle that exits for the index to switch between "all" and "premium".  I hope this will be addressed

Yes, I agree we've lost some valuable insights by hiding the free members' content. I've noticed some companies, for example Bapcor, no longer show a consensus valuation. So it's now left to 600 people to keep the IVs of 2000 companies up to date.

I know the consensus valuations can never be relied upon to be accurate or current anyway, and you should dyor, but I like to check in with what the community thinks as well.

Hi @slymeat, this was my biggest concern going into premium and its playing out just like I thought it would. I understand Andrew wants to make this an exclusive club of sorts - and to be fair it already is - but I feel like removing free content from visibility of premium members is counterintuitive.

I think there is a better way going forward. Again, I can appreciate what Andrew is trying to do, but I think he is reducing value for premium members but also creating a vacuum of sorts amongst the free community - both obviously being negative. If not everyone wants to see free user content, the ability to toggle on and off would be useful (although I doubt anyone would want to exclude this content). I think providing the ability for us to upvote posts we find valuable would reduce the 'vacuum' concerns - they will still see a lot of our contributions in a months time anyway, which i think is fair. 

Agree slymeat, I didn't realise that it would work this.

It doesn't make much sense, paying for premium should give you access all the content available.

The obvious workaround would be to open up a second account using a second email address but to keep that one as a free user account, however I agree that it would be more useful to have all content in the one place rather than having to change accounts to access it. 

Edit:  Additional:  I forgot that free users can't see each other's contributions, only their own, so that suggestion of mine above would solve nothing, as your second account (the free user account) would only let you look at your OWN stuff created by that account, which has zero benefit for people who are already Premium members.

Something else I have noticed is that conversations within forums have had all of the free user input removed, so that's weird.  An example is exchanges I had with a couple of people within the "Quote of the day" forum months back.  Some of those people have not gone Premium, so their stuff has now been removed from those forum threads, leaving my replies to them there, but not what I was replying to.  When I see this, I am deleting my replies now, as they no longer make any sense without any context.  However, there are a LOT of forum threads, so this is going to be a long and time consuming process for me, and I am currently time poor, and it seems a little unnecessary, as in why does the free user stuff need to be removed from forums?

There's a technical reason why it's been done like that Bear77 (but i'd be lying if i said i fully understood it -- but the Strawman devs are pretty smart guys, so i'm happy to back them).

There are a few things like this that are unavoidable due to the pivot we made to a private paid membership. If we'd started from the get go with this exact model in mind it would be different, but things have evolved this way and we're having to adapt the system as we move forward. But these are all point in time issues, and will fade in relevance as we proceed from here.

For what it's worth, when looking at the analytics, the page visits on most of these older forum posts are all essentially zero. So I wouldnt worry too much about needing to delete/edit your old posts.