Auric and All~~
....wondered where that article was published?? Also thought your comments below were true:
"You get what you pay for"....and "why argue with a fool...no one will know the difference..."
Couple of comments and questions re SI....
1) Again, is SI a "pulp paper" or a "slick glossy" type of content (magazine i.e. True Confessions or Town and Country)?
There is a market for both.... All one has to do is look at www.thelion.com to see an overview of 4 message boards....SI does seem to have fewer posts, but by and large, these comments seem to be more thought out, more entertaining, and a good deal less rude and offensive. I for one, not only don't have the time to wade through the juvenile posts, nor have I any inclination to sit in the gutter and even look at most of them.
2) I do wonder though....since one of the advantages of SI's boards is that you can access 10 messages at a time, are these counted as ONE or are they counted as TEN.....???
3) I thought I read somewhere that the entire web traffic was down since November.....Is there a way to actually check this???
I did find by checking Metacrawler, we could access several places, but thought someone might know the actual number of visitors by month to the Internet....and how many actually visit SI, and of those how many actually post.
search.metacrawler.com
"Web Site Traffic" -- some places on Metacrawler
Best to All~ KLP
Auric said:
In serious defense of SI, the key is that you get what you pay for. Part of the game on the other boards is that when
the touts trying to run a stock see a post they do not like, they quickly generate 40 messages to map over it. SI
limits this sort of inane behaviour.
As well, the IQ on those boards is decidedly lower by an order of magnitude. So the question becomes, why argue
with a fool, no one will know the difference. |
