Dear JDN: Unfortunately, the person who started that board over at RB did it as a place for people on that specific thread to meet. Taking his lead,think l should request a similar one for SUNW, something like, "SUNW, SI chapter??" I do NOT, however, like RB. Here are a few of my complaints:
1. S-l-o-w
2. Not enough of the first line shows, making it rough to decide if one wants to read a posting or not. Spammers capitalize on this.
3. Toooooo many spammers.
4. No "Inbox." If a person makes a reply to one's postings, it is very, very easy _not_ to see it unless one keeps up with postings. On low volume threads (e.g. RAL, FTU), this is not a problem. On threads such as SUNW? Forget it! There can be over 100 postings in a day because people can not start threads on their own to take OT talk and RB administration will not open coffee house equivalent threads at RB--they tell people to go over to AltaVista (or at least did until RB got sold).
5. No PMs.
There are other things, but this is enough.
In your previous posting you state, "I think they will come to find that at one
time they had the BEST financial chat site and the people that
frequented these threads often were decision makers in other
business's."
You are right, JDN, and that this is something that should not be taken lightly when a decision about what to do with SI is made. In addition to decision makers, I think it is safe to say that people here at SI have far greater investment experience and far greater net worths than people at RB or Yahoo!
Regards,
Lynn |
