The stock boards are great for info and that sort of thing. But you really needed another facet to blow off steam
I have to agree. It's been a lot of fun today and this may adjust my thinking a bit on what I consider an ideal level of non-stock discussion, but I do still maintain that iHub should be first and foremost a *stock discussion site*; not a *generic discussion site*. Same is true of Silicon Investor, Raging Bull, and Yahoo.
The tangents are fun and help people stay on-topic in the stock threads, which is cool. As long as it's still interest in the market that serves as the thing we all have in common. In my ideal scenario, we *all* talk mostly about stocks (except me) and let our hair down in threads like this afterhours or as brief interludes during the trading day.