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To: John Busby who wrote (13473)	11/30/2000 8:10:29 PM
From: HairBall	Respond to of 32873

John Busby: - people must be active in order to count the bookmark. in other words, if people haven't posted a message in 30 days then their bookmarks shouldn't count. (i'd like to know what others think about this. i'm not sure whether posting a message indicates that you are using your peoplemarks. people that don't post may be checking their peoplemarks more than people who do post.) Well that is a good point, but I would like to see the stale accounts weeded out. The best thing would be to not count bookmarks from members who have not logged in in thirty days. Can you do that? By the way, I would like to see the list go to 100 for both individuals and subjects. Especially subjects as a lot of the highly bookmarked subjects will just be stock threads. Thanks in advance for your efforts. Regards, LG

To: John Busby who wrote (13473)	11/30/2000 8:29:19 PM
From: Ga Bard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32873

John, the problem with SI with myself and most I have talked to is the bullies. If you share information you are a pumper or hypster and responsible there after for the stock price and the market conditions or influences that affect the market. Instead of sharing information about companies the thread gets disarrayed with personal attacks. Anyone that dares to enter the SI cyberbigots territories end up getting personally attacked. This is a main problem I discussed with John. Plainly the selective TOS that allows uncalled for personal attacks, name calling and threads being in disarray is what turned a lot of people off. To my dismay (I really like SI) but it is dying for this main reason though John elected not to voice this problem just the part about it dying. Most of the people here I know ask me to come back but I tell them to PM me to avoid the stalkers and bullies. Why put up with nonsense of posting DD just to get into a high school bully confrontation? Why pay to end up being stalked and attacked? If someone has a problem then SI has PM for the two to air out whatever differences they may have and off the thread. But believe it or not its worse on RB ... a lot worse. If SI would stand by its TOS and not be selective to clean up the threads and keep them on topic and civil SI would get people coming back. You have resident bullies as does all the sites. I am here sometimes reading but rarely post openly because I have better things to do than getting into stupid confrontations with bullies. Matter of fact I got a call that old bob was attacking me again and I did not know the article had come out. So I really could not understand why till I got here. SI is great as a research stock tool and has a lot of great features. I use it now to post historical data so I can call it up quick and easy. But no sense in dealing with cyber-stalkers and bullies. :-) Gary Swancey