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To: SI Dave who wrote (23936)	4/28/2006 1:45:03 PM
From: Stan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32913

What is the reason for seeing someone's name repeated in the new subcribers window of the home page? For example, Goldworldnet's name has appeared there many times in a row on multiple days.

To: SI Dave who wrote (23936)	4/28/2006 6:46:58 PM
From: Mark Marcellus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32913

Rec's are part of it (and they use counters), but they seem to use that only to guide them to promising posts. The selection of the post appears to be completely driven by editorial judgment. The rec thing works pretty well on TMF, though that's partly a function of the type of community they have. It did get out of hand at one point, but they seem to have solved the problem by limiting the number of rec's you can make in one day. I do like the idea of listing the top recommended posts, especially if you restrict it to stock threads.

To: SI Dave who wrote (23936)	4/28/2006 8:15:27 PM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32913

Last I was on TMF, they had eliminated threads that were created to tout OTCBB and Pink Sheets stocks. Shortly thereafter, they eliminated all the threads having to do with the garbage exchanges, and sometime after that, they started removing individual posts that concerned the garbage exchanges. So, when TMF members are "rating" posts from other members, the posts are almost entirely about "legitimate" stocks, that is, stocks that are listed on the major exchanges and have real earnings and real revenues and real, audited financials, not just so-called "story" stocks. TMF also has/had some posts regarding the financial markets in general (not specific stocks) and some threads devoted to mutual funds and some threads devoted to bonds. (I might point out that, sadly, SI lacks significant member interest in mutual funds and bonds.) I've read quite a few of TMF's daily recommended posts, and for the most part, they're quite well written, only rarely controversial, and usually contain quite a bit of insight into the markets or a specific stock. In other words, TMF administers that feature quite well... EK!!!