"Kinda the inverse of how this place nearly fatally imploded with the internet bubble bursting."
It surely seems that SI lost a lot of posters who exited both SI and the market at that time.
I'd like to see an updated account of how many people are now really reading some of these subjectmarks. Especially this one.
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This subjectmark shows 1025 who have it bookmarked now. I recall seeing 1029 a few months ago. These numbers to me seem way too high. It looks like to be among the top 50 posters here, somebody would've had to post only as few as 118 times over the past five years. I'm guessing maybe there are at most 25 active posters now - maybe more like 10.
Okay, I get that posting is different from reading, which might be different from bookmarking. I can't believe though there are as many as 1000 people on SI who have this site bookmarked and who are reading posts here (lurking). I do see where this value thread shows up sometimes among Active Subjects (Investment) and where now it's #13 on Hot Subjects (Investment).
I have trouble believing the 1025 number though. With the different value investing styles presented on this thread, with their proponents having strong opinions for their particular approach, with all the different stocks brought up and discussed, I just cannot believe that if there were nearly 1000 bookmarks here and maybe even "only" 500 readers and lurkers among the 1025 bookmarkers, that among the 500, somewhere along the line, a hot button for them would've been pressed, and they would have come forward and posted a comment. Or even mention or cross-reference this thread (subjectmark) on some other threads on which they might be a poster.
Without having any supporting facts, my impression is that maybe there might be 100 total posters and lurkers here. I have to believe the 1025 number has got to be outdated - and not at all representative of a lower number who actually conistently or occasionally read this thread. |
