RitaLin

New updates to the Seeking Alpha website this week

Hi there,
You are absolutely right, but we are doing exactly what you suggested already: An aggregate rank of a Commenter is positive comments minus negative comments. Check out the right side-bar on your "Comments" page.
Best,
Rita


On Sep 09 12:53 PM Plant the seeds wrote:

> Net comments could mean that you get credit for making popular comments.
> Shouldn't you look at total comments (positive and negative)

New updates to the Seeking Alpha website this week

Good Job, Boaz!

An Ode To Instablog

In that case, here's one for you ;-) :

Going backwards - a move worth a notion!
That way your book will get insta-promotion ;-)

BTW, as a designer, i gotta say your book cover is really sharp - and i've even used it on our internal mock ups as a example of a great looking author image.

Reply to Thomas Jower's (own), "How to Fix Microsoft for $5 Billion"

Interesting thoughts, good reading.
I was just wondering about the first sentence of your post: "(Unable to reply directly to his [and other's] fine thoughts, I'll do so here......)" - did you mean that you couldn't find an appropriate feature on the site to reply to or comment on other's articles / posts / StockTalks?

Cheers

RitaLin

Yahoo CEO Bartz drops the f-bomb in discussing YHOO product development

It is quite astonishing the man had actually said that, but on the other hand it's a bit like "The Emperor's New Clothes" story - the king's been naked for a while now and it has become a bit ridiculous to keep ignoring it.
Having that said, kudos for the courage, Carol Bartz. Many companies (IMHO) grow too large for their own good and tend to get sucked into bureaucratic swamps - admitting that, is a big step towards recovery.

My first instablog

...And if you follow people (who interest you) it gets even better - try and see ;-)

Billions Will Die in the Impending Famine. Buy Ags

Let's say (for the sake of the argument that) Dr. Doom's predictions here are something to be actually concerned about:
Yeah, that sounds about right - when facing a threat of massive famines, global destruction & death of billions, our main concern should be packing our portfolios with "agricultural plays" because "Food prices will skyrocket, and billions could die."

The new threat to smarthpones?

Congrats on the 1st post - well done!
Looks like it really is "cool-cool" and tiny - which go hand in hand these days.
So basically you can use it as a cellphone without jackets, in it's most miniature form (the one you took such a lovely - and tired - picture with), right?
p. s. And next time you get your hands on such a cool and easy to steal toy...well enough said (implied ;-)

Note of apology to our users: Our hosting service had a major outage this morning that took Seeking Alpha down for about five hours. We're back up now, and working hard to get all the articles in our backlog up on the site.

Dear Lemoneater,
I'd like to thank you on behalf of Ginger (the orange kitten), who until recently used to be our employee - as the team mascot and a valuable member of the SA design team. One day he decided he was old enough to take on the world and just moved on...hopefully to a better career ;-)
Anyhow, i guess these were his 15 minutes of glory (well, more like 5 hours ;-). It was nice to know they didn't go unnoticed, but we'll do our best to make sure Ginger doesn't get that much "screen time" again.

Cheers,
R.L.

On Apr 15 04:08 PM lemoneater wrote:

> I liked the cute orange kitten. It made a much nicer out of order
> message.

Consumer Confidence Index Hits Historic Lows

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YouTube Is on a Roll

BTW, this might be useful: www.youtube.com

TheStreet.com Redesign

I'll also start with a disclosure: I'm the Web Designer for Seeking Alpha.
It's actually my first time commenting, so be gentle ;-)
(i guess it took TSCM's re-design to pull me out of my shell, which already means they've done a good job ;)

1. It's really important for me to know what our readers think about the site design, how usable and friendly they find our way of presenting the content and if there are any suggestions for improvement/requests. So, to everyone who's taken the time to comment here, or in any other article: Thank you. Knowing what actual users think really helps to improve the user-experience.

2. TheStreet.com Redesign - in terms of aesthetics, readability and layout (which are pretty much all the terms i'm certified to judge by) it looks pretty good, in any case much better than before.

An episode:

Today i was about to show a new designer in our team what I think of as the worst designed financial site on the web, for which purpose i naturally chose thestreet.com. But when i pressed "return" on my keyboard, the effect was ruined...and as i was staring, surprised, into the screen, the new designer said: "Not only is it not as ugly as you promised, i think there's some stuff that actually work better then on ours'..."