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To: 1Coffeehound who wrote (32449)	9/15/2022 3:55:46 AM
From: M. Murray	1 Recommendation Recommended By Zen Dollar Round Respond to of 32857

Any "censoring" that I see is needed because of a problem poster(s), and there aren't very many of those. So I don't see censoring as any kind of issue. I like the size here. There are busier boards like StockTwits, I think that's the name, but they have subscription fees. I'm used to good old Silicon Investor, suits me just fine!!

To: 1Coffeehound who wrote (32449)	9/15/2022 4:52:02 AM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Respond to of 32857

> The number of posts to almost all of SI's boards has fallen precipitously since its heyday. It's difficult to understand why it didn't realize that censoring discussion would lead to discussion going elsewhere. Do any other forums on the Internet besides SI give thread ban power to the the user who created it? I'm very curious about this since I don't know any that do. I don't use SeekingAlpha, Stocktwits, etc. so I wouldn't know. All the ones I know have many moderators to censor content, but they're at an admin level above the users. Since Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and its "hands off" approach for holding companies liable for the content their users produce is getting a hard look now by Congress, it may not be long before SI and other places that allow people to abuse each other like they do here won't be allowed at all.

To: 1Coffeehound who wrote (32449)	9/15/2022 9:47:34 AM
From: Zen Dollar Round	4 Recommendations Recommended By Eric L J.B.C. NAG1 SirWalterRalegh Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32857

> The number of posts to almost all of SI's boards has fallen precipitously since its heyday. It's difficult to understand why it didn't realize that censoring discussion would lead to discussion going elsewhere. I believe your statement ignores some important facts. 1. There is no mobile app for SI. Young people do almost everything in their smartphones these days, including read stock forums and trade on them as well. Most of the other sites either have mobile apps now, or they work well with the smartphone's browser. See reason #2. 2. SI's HTML code does not use Responsive web design (Wikipedia), so using a smartphone's web browser to access SI is just using a tiny version of the desktop/laptop version. If you've ever tried posting with it, you know how difficult it is. 3. While the simple text design of SI is great, and I love it myself, I believe it is a turn off to younger users familiar with more modern features. Those are the basics, though many other lesser reasons exist for the stagnant user growth.

To: 1Coffeehound who wrote (32449)	9/15/2022 1:46:05 PM
From: TEDennis	Respond to of 32857

There is no doubt in my mind ..,. It was the transition to the current despicable time format. "3 hours ago" "Last Tuesday" Sheesh ... TED