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To: BryanB who wrote (1030)	7/26/2000 12:47:16 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 4890

I liked it better the old way but I don't blame you for not wanting to publicize that a good percentage of the posts on Silicon Investor have nothing to do with the stock market.

To: BryanB who wrote (1030)	7/26/2000 1:00:53 PM
From: appro	Respond to of 4890

That explains why the usual suspects are now starting up coffee shop threads everywhere except the coffee shop. : O)

To: BryanB who wrote (1030)	7/26/2000 5:30:11 PM
From: c.horn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4890

Once again you have amazed me. It was actually at a customer suggestion that we decided to split the two. Are you publicly stating that you actually take and implement customer suggestions? Is this something new? I think its a first. And are you also stating that the you only implement asinine customer suggestions? Who is this "customer?" Do we know him/her? I'd like to know what kind of knucklehead would make such a suggestion. In fact, we're going to be adding "Hot Subject" lists for several other categories as well. Now you're telling me it gets worse. I guess that's kind of a long way of saying that we are not planning to add Coffee Shop subjects back to the Hot Subjects page - at least as it currently exists You have taken a premier site and turned it upside down in the name of change. I'm very disappointed in the direction you are taking us. Instead of inclusion you are talking about exclusion. A bad precedent.. Thanks for asking, Translation: GFY. Thanks for answering, Translation: right back at ya. C

To: BryanB who wrote (1030)	7/26/2000 8:16:29 PM
From: CatLady	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4890

"It was actually at a customer suggestion that we decided to split the two." You know, I think I actually remember when that idea came up. The idea, as I understood it, was for the Coffee shop threads to get their own separate, but equal, hot list. A little bit of space at the very bottom of the title page doesn't cut it, It needs to be just as easy to find as the current Hot Subjects link. Maybe you're planning something like that, but why take the coffee shop out of hot subjects before the replacement is ready?

To: BryanB who wrote (1030)	7/26/2000 11:15:07 PM
From: AugustWest	Respond to of 4890

BTW, bryan, notice I didn't even comment on your post? You really are a piece of work. You must be proud of your accomplishments.

To: BryanB who wrote (1030)	7/27/2000 12:18:11 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Respond to of 4890

Are you going to take the "Welcome to SI" category out of the "hot subject" list?

To: BryanB who wrote (1030)	7/27/2000 1:57:09 PM
From: Cisco	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4890

I guess that's kind of a long way of saying that we are not planning to add Coffee Shop subjects back to the Hot Subjects page - at least as it currently exists. That is really something! On Monday John Busby assured us that the Coffee Shop thread would be there: W&C GTA shouldn't be there. Coffee Shop should. Message 14096541 Do you all talk to each other? Do you all actually use the site? If you had to use it on a dial up server like some us have to do you would know that during normal use of SI we rarely go to the homepage because we don't want to have to wait for it to load. It takes forever. I always looked at the homepage as being something for new users or potential new users. It would be so simple to give those who want a Hot Subject option that includes the Coffee Shop threads or a separate Hot Coffee List that I can not understand your reasoning! Some of the previous posters are correct, you aren't going to see many new coffee house threads. I started my last coffee house subject on one of the other threads last weekend. This decision of SI is going to lead to a lot of off topic discussion on the stock threads. Cisco