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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (15063)	4/5/2001 10:56:40 AM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32884

Bob Zumbrunnen, who worked until recently as a message-board monitor for Silicon Investor until Infospace fired him amid companywide cuts, agrees. "There really is a lot more civility out there," he says. "And of course, it's a lot quieter." I think I spent about an hour on the phone for "People are nice. People are quiet." <g> "If you remove that spike, we've actually grown," Mr. Stratz says. It's been running about 7000 posts per day for the past couple of days; a bit higher than the mid-5000's it's been doing lately. Same period 4 years ago, it was running 8-9000 posts per day. 3 years ago, 14-17000. 2 years ago, 27-28000. You have to go back to about November, 1996 (when few people knew about the site and total messages hadn't reached 500k) to find a starting point at which you could say "We've grown since then." It's like starting a company by yourself, growing it to thousands of employees over the course of about 4 1/2 years, then firing everyone but yourself and your brother and saying "We've doubled in size." Of course, Mr. Stratz didn't lie. Although the phrase "Define 'spike'." comes to mind. sibob.com Only spikes I see are in 03/00 and 05/00, and those were likely caused by glitches screwing up post numbering. But I certainly wouldn't dismiss 4 1/2 years of history as a "spike". Edit: During that interview (or maybe it was another?) I agreed that activity's down on all stock message board sites except that I didn't know about Motley Fool and that it wouldn't surprise me if they hadn't seen a slowdown at all. I've always thought very highly of that site.