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Saturday, 08/24/2002 11:58:03 AM

Saturday, August 24, 2002 11:58:03 AM

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Here is Bob's responses to your suggestions so far:

Suggestions for the website:

1. Wish there were a link within I hub for real time quotes and charts

Realtime quotes and charts cost money and there are many sites that do that and do it well. For charts, I just can't imagine any way StockCharts can be beat. I have no desire to compete with folks who already do things correctly. Nobody is (IMO) doing message boards correctly, so that's what I want to focus on. It's what I love and know best anyway.


2. Is there a feature available to paid subscribers whereby you can highlight a particular poster on a board, hit a button & get a chronological order of their posts on that particular board?

I like this idea, but don't know when I'll be able to start working on it. The Ad Engine is going to keep me tied up for a while. Darth, can you add this as a line-item on a to-do list for me and when I've got a good idea on an ETA, I'll let you know.


3. The ability to Recommend others posts.

I'm not sold on this one. Is everyone else? Talk it over amongst yourselves then if it seems the majority likes it, I'd like to hear the best argument for it. I've got plenty of arguments against it ("we're all equals"). I wouldn't mind an impartial 3rd-party culling excellent posts like David Z did on SI, though.


4. The ability to Post Polling Questions.

You mean system-run surveys? That's do-able. What do we want it?

5. I wish the market monkies would go poooooooooooooof.......eom

They will. They'll implode within the next 30-60 days, then it's a long free ride for all of us closet bulls.


6. I wish that after I pressed previous 50, then press hide iBox, iHub will be able to bring me to the previous 50 message list I was reading, instead of bringing me back to the most recent message list

Nope. Too much work for too little benefit.


7. Putting next to the Membership Icon HOW MANY OTHER MEMBERS have that member MemberMarked

I like that. I take it we mean in the Profiles? If so, Darth will add it to my list and I'll give an ETA when I can.


8. We need a keep message for any message. Just not our own.

I've thought about this one before and it's horrificially expensive to implement using any of the approaches I've thought of. Darth, can you add "Investigate 'Keep/Unkeep" for messages not addressed to the reader?" to my to-do list?

In the meantime, you can always bookmark just posts with your browser or do like I do: PM yourself the URL for the message.


9. Would it be possible for default to be set at "closed iBOX/board info" and user would have to OPEN to view it?

No. Default should definitely be for the iBox to be open since it's an important read for first-time visitors to a board. If you hide it, it stays hidden unless someone makes a change to it. Are there boards where it's changed daily or more? If so, would a "Keep it hidden, dammit!" button do the job?

Bob Z.

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