Friday, October 30, 1998
Exclusive: Silicon Investor's Sheriff Lady departs
Jill McKinney, all-powerful Webmistress of Silicon
Investor's raucous bulletin boards, tells Money.com
why she is hanging up her holster
By Borzou Daragahi
moneydaily.com
For the last two years, Jill McKinney has been a
solitary soldier in the army of good taste and
Internet decorum, standing guard in a watchtower over
the millions of messages posted to the mammoth Silicon
Investor stock-discussion Web site
(http://www.techstocks.com) and booting out folks who
broke the rules.
The legendary Webmistress of the 100,000-member SI,
she has broken up ferocious online fights, ejected
shameless pitchmen, and stepped in to warn countless
users about cussing, vulgarity and ad hominem attacks.
For her efforts, she has received death threats,
marriage proposals, a dozen roses, and even
accusations of impersonating a woman. "She's a babe,"
says Chester Lee, a San Francisco chemist who met
McKinney at a party (everyone knew who Jill was) and
has since become a pal.
As Money.com caught up with the number three player at
SI, the first employee hired by co-founders Brad
and Jeff Dryer, the 27-year-old Birmingham, Ala.
native was thinking about marriage and what to do with
her cut of the $35 million in stock Seattle-based |
