A.I.M. Users Bulletin Board

[OldAIMGuy]

Hi AIMster, Re: Posting Activity....................

Well, there's a marked difference in the number of unique visits to the aim-users.com web site since stopping the newsletter and IW details. On a monthly basis visits are off 38% in the first couple of months.

So, if this is also translating to fewer posts here at I-Hub, then we're going to see longer intervals of quiet here. I do still receive the occasional email from various AIMers, so I know they still exist.

I guess I didn't think the i-Wave was as big a drawing card for the web site as its now seems to have been. From the survey I'd done a while ago, I wouldn't have guessed that it was the main interest here.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board_survey_results.asp?board_id=949&Survey_Num=3

It also could be a 'seasonality' thing with Sept and Oct. being slower months because of historical patterns. This year certainly breaks with the past as far as Sept's performance goes and October has been off to a good start.

I don't know if IHub's own posting rate has slowed. I guess we could check on that, too. It's been a long time since we were listed on the top 150 boards. Our typical score in the past was in the 200 to 250 range and #150 still shows a score of over 350, so it looks as though posting at InvestorsHub is still pretty strong.

I've often debated the strengths of both iHub and Silicon Investor. It appears that (with the exception of this board) iHub generally has a lot more penny stock and pink sheet investors than does Silicon Investor. SI tends to draw in more posts on larger cap stocks while iHub draws more of the smaller cap issues as posting hot spots.

iHub Top 150 Boards:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/top_boards.asp

Silicon Investor Top 50 Investment Boards:
http://siliconinvestor.advfn.com/activeinvestboards.aspx

I've not checked the subscription cost differences between the two in a long time. Since they were combined I'd expected they would eventually be the same subscription, but don't know if that occurred. IHub still lets a lot of folks post for free (limited) but I don't know if SI allows that.

So, maybe a poll would be of some value. We had a large gain in posters when we moved to iHub back about 5 years ago because of the "free" posting. That's still in place. So, maybe if folks have an opinion it's time for them to make it known.

Best regards, Tom