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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (28304)	2/4/2005 3:39:11 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I agree with you 100%. What Dave wrote there sounds very much like a threat. Dave, is it? This is so much "1999" that one of the former stock threads has turned into "How To Win At Poker". Subject 53153 Does that thread, being non-stock, die too? Or do we change SI to a gambling site?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (28304)	2/4/2005 4:07:34 PM
From: SI Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

>>What are your thoughts, and Bob's as well, on the future of the SI Political and Coffee Shop threads? First, I don't believe I lumped together Political and Coffee Shop threads. Two different animals with a little overlap, at least from my perspective. Advertisers don't pay premium prices to have their ads displayed on political boards. Most new subscribers aren't joining to participate on political boards, per se. The number of accounts posting to Political and Coffee Shop forums on the average day are more or less equal, while absolute posting volume on the Political boards is higher relative to Coffee Shop. However, the number of users posting to investment forums blows both of them away, as does the total posting volume. No doubt the number of people who lurk without posting follow that patten and then some, and the metrics continue to diverge. And, an overwhelming percentage of TOU complaints originate from political boards. Agreed, it's not 1999, but there is ample demand for feature-rich investment oriented message boards. iHub is firing on all cylinders in all gears, while at the same time the topical demographics are improving at SI (political subjects are declining while investment subjects are increasing). While the burst bubble is certainly partly responsible for the decline of SI 2000-2003, the lack of attention by the previous owner in terms of maintenance, development, and administration allowed the signal-to-noise ratio to go to hell. >>I just paid up $20 to upgrade my membership, as have a number of others, and I would be very disappointed to learn that management wants to take this site back to having only an investment/stock trading focus. Suffice it to say that accommodations will be provided, and no material changes are imminent. From a practical point of view, the most challenging objective has already occurred, which was segregating ideology-based political pis.., er, discussions from the investment boards. There was no small amount of kicking and screaming early-on, but I think most users will agree that the site is now much improved by having segregated the two. The participation metrics combined with the fact that there are rarely any complaints of off-topic posting in the investment threads would clearly support it.