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SI - Site Forums : Silicon Investor - New feature discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SI Brad who wrote (30)	7/6/2011 1:12:01 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad	9 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7352

I am liking the idea of no more than 1 post every 10 minutes, or perhaps no more than 10 posts in an hour across the entire site. Intensely dislike. Quite often I and many others post an article to two threads dealing with the same topic, and I do so within one minute. It would be annoying not to be able to do so. Ten minutes later, I'm already past that, reading or posting on other threads. Also, sometimes a conversation seems to take place in "real time." Meaning, someone posts, I respond, they post, I respond. Does not happen often, but does happen. Being prevented from doing so would be detrimental to the flow of information. Especially when some stock is moving like crazy. By the time ten minutes, or five minutes, or one minute passes, the stock can be miles away from where it was when the original post was made. And it strikes me as unnecessary, no matter what.

To: SI Brad who wrote (30)	7/6/2011 3:33:49 PM
From: Dale Baker	1 Recommendation Respond to of 7352

does SI need a chat tool? Would it help take conversations about the weather offline? You might find it very popular. My thread has a group on MIRC during market hours every day, and I know other people follow other MIRC groups. If you put that functionality here, I'm sure we would be happy to ride on your servers in the SI world, and keep all our stock chat in-house. And yes, it cuts down on the social chit chat on static messages boards since stories about our favorite snowblower don't really need a wider audience.

To: SI Brad who wrote (30)	7/6/2011 4:56:09 PM
From: SmoothSail	Respond to of 7352

So, how come the people I had on ignore are now off ignore?

To: SI Brad who wrote (30)	7/7/2011 7:43:17 AM
From: churak	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7352

Thanks Brad. As it has been in the past...focus on Stock Discussion, but anything goes Ok, then why the fuss over BANS & IGNORES? Personally, not only do I have no one on IGNORE here or iHub, I also have no one membermarked. Oh yeah, and I HATE the BAN feature. It seems to me that discussion re these features stem from the "posses" or shitfights on non-stock related boards. I suspect (but have not done a statistical analysis) that the emotionally charged political & non-stock related boards have created most of the bad blood amongst long-timers here. Having Club-type boards that are available by invitation only to read & post on might reduce some of the noise. If your intent is to be a non-vertical investment site eliminating a data provider and concentrating on stock discussion then, IMHO, any other discussion should be moved to another area of the site that requires a secret handshake (or just a handshake or wink or nod) to get into...and is ADMIN hands-off monitored solely by the MOD & his/her ASSistants for the board. There can be a couple of areas in this part of the site ie one area for Invitation-only boards, one for general chit chat, etc. But if the focus should be on stock discussion then that should be the focal point. One comment re eliminating a data provider - you may want to consider retaining a really good news provider and having that streaming somewhere on the home page or available via a hot link. I might add the ability to include multiple recipients on PMs That would be great - with a limit to the number of recipients. Like 5. Don't want to give them PM SPAMMERS another tool. Also, the ability to forward PMs to someone else could be useful. If you really want to be innovative, you might also look into having a feature that enables the sender to edit PMs after they have been sent...lol