Had the time tonight to be online and I was just anxious for a reply and you were answering recent questions.
Not going to get into the subject about the message removed posts as I look at it from a different point in tracking the performance of a poster or a COB.
As far as hot subject lists go, you said
(i)I don't know whether or not SI manipulates that list, but can tell you that I personally doubt it. It's more likely that there are still problems with the programming for it. There were for a long time anyway.(i)
That means that the Hot Subjects Lists and the Hot Stocktalk that is on the Home page of SI, were not functioning for a long time and were in error most of the time. That means that if some of the threads on SI were on those hot lists in the #1 spot for really long periods of time, says even years, they really were not #1, the system just had problems and they were stuck in the #1 spot accidently.
Going to bed now and thanks, although I have to admit it is just confusing me more with what I am thinking now.
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