Hey Everyone,
I just wanted to say Happy New Year to the community. 2008 has been absolutely crazy and I am hoping 2009 won't be quite as bad (although I am not too optimistic).
Thank you to all the members that made 2008 an interesting year on WSO. We have made a lot of changes and improvements. I am more motivated than ever to make our community more entertaining and useful for all of the monkeys still left standing out there... so please feel free to suggest improvements or ideas on how we can grow the member base to improve the dialogue in the forums.
Thanks again for an "interesting" year.
-Patrick
Happy new year! So hungover..
So who did some slaying last night?
I think you need to reconsider some of the threads that get posted on the front page .... we need to move away from political issues and have some posts that have direct relations to the financial services industry in order to keep healthy discussions going on....and it doesn't hurt to have some lifestyles posts once a while
This is not an Obama forum..... whether there are pro/Obama posts or not, I don't think these posts need to get posted on the front page because first time visitors of this website will get misconceptions about the subjects that are covered in this website
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/the-balkanization-of-the-us
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/a-lesson-in-french-capitalism
These topics don't have any relationship to Obama at all nor they are related to the financial markets, even if they were pro-Obama posts, I will not like them either because I don't visit this website to get information and some opinions on Obama.
Just my 2 cents.... I can be totally wrong.
Other than that, thanks for all the efforts you put to keep this site growing and growing
Were there more visitors in 2008 than 2007?
ST2008, I agree there have been a few too many political posts for a Wall Street forum -- however, I think that was more a function of the fact that it was an election year and that government was so involved in various bailouts...and not an indication of what you should expect going forward.
some politics will undoubtedly flow into the discussion as members debate the Fed's, treasury or action taken by Congress, but I am also hoping we can keep finance and Wall Street at the center of the debate.
and yes, we had more visitors in 2008 than we did in 2007. We also nearly doubled the # of registered users from 10,000 to over 18,000. Hopefully we will hit the 20,000 registered user mark by the end of February with your help.
Thanks, Patrick
May you all have an interesting new year.
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