>>Have they noticed the steady attrition in the stock boards?<<
Dale,
Your question back in August prompted me to add up the total annual number of posts on SI since inception, which are tallied below. I'm basing this on the first post # of each year, so I have no way to separate stock boards from other boards. For 2013 I'm projecting 665,000 posts by end of year, so we're continuing to decline...
| Year | Post Count | Growth Rate |
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| | 2012 | 781,518 | -1.5% | | 2011 | 793,208 | -6.4% | | 2010 | 847,731 | -8.2% | | 2009 | 923,102 | -17.4% | | 2008 | 1,117,292 | 8.5% | | 2007 | 1,029,385 | -8.5% | | 2006 | 1,125,231 | 1.1% | | 2005 | 1,113,044 | -11.7% | | 2004 | 1,260,995 | 0.4% | | 2003 | 1,255,722 | -18.5% | | 2002 | 1,540,033 | -11.7% | | 2001 | 1,744,116 | -34.7% | | 2000 | 2,671,284 | -50.3% | | 1999 | 5,373,448 | 34.7% | | 1998 | 3,988,504 | 61.6% | | 1997 | 2,467,488 | 317.1% | | 1996 | 591,557 | 4706.7% | | 1995 | 12,307 |
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