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About Silicon Investor:

Since August 11, 1995, 507,438 registered members have posted 24,861,805 public message on Silicon Investor. Each of these messages is available either by browsing the topic-specifc Subject message boards, or by using the Advanced Search feature available to Premium Subscribers.

New Users may wish to begin by clicking on Forums above, then selecting a top-level Forum of interest, and then selecting a specific Subject board. Or, you can enter a stock ticker or name in the search box and select Quote or Subject from the drop-down list. Or, you can select from several screens of Hot Subjects, and popular Subjects and People. Individual Forum lists and the Hot lists can be sorted by clicking on various column headings.

Site Map (sort of):

The Registration Page is for new acccounts. New users must register a free account before subscribing to advanced membership. Free membership includes the ability to post on Investment forum boards and provides access to core site features.

The User Levels page lists the various membership levels.

The Features page lists the key features available to each of the three membership classes: Free, Grandfathered/Lifetime, and Premium Subscribers.

The 404 page. There are tens of millions of links to SI pages all over the Internet. For the pages don't exist anymore, these "quips" are our way of explaining their absence.

NEW >> SI's Wild Ass Guess contest. Guess the closest date & time of the big grub and win CASH and other prizes!

Boards Menu:

Mail is a Registered User's private box listing messages received from other users. It also contains folders for "trash" and "kept" messages, custom folders, and an Outbox.

Forums Lists the top-level Forum Categories that contain all of the individual Subject boards, Hot Subjects and People (described below), and a place to create new Subjects. There are dozens of Investment-related forums divided by genre, each containing hundreds or thousands of Subjects. Non-Investment formus include Welcome to Silicon Investor, the Coffee Shop, and Politics/Government. Subjects in the Coffee Shop & Politics forums can be read by anyone but posting is limited to subscribers and grandfathered members. In order to maintain a high signal-to-noise ratio, SI moderators and site admins work hard to minimize off-topic postings, and site policy requires that ideological-based (i.e., partisan) political discussions be conducted in the Politics forum and not on Subject boards in Investment forums.

SubjectMarks stores a summary of your favorite Subjects and keeps track of those with new messages since the last time you checked. You can add and remove Subjects from each Subject's main page.

PeopleMarks stores a summary of your favorite People and keeps track of those with new messages since the last time you checked. You can add and remove PeopleMarks by clicking on a Member's name and then selecting the desired action from their Profile page.

My Account shows your account information, and provides a place for you to change your Alias and.or Password, and access to customize your Profile and Interface Settings.

Finance Menu:

These new tools from our parent company ADVFN were recently added to SI. More information will be provided here soon. Meanwhile, a support board dedicate to the Finance features can be found here.

Bottom Menu:

The Terms of Use contain conditions you agree to when using Silicon Innvestor.

The FAQ or Frequently Asked Questions. We will be replacing this with a Wiki soon.

Boards (continued from above):

New Subjects lists the 20 most recently created discussion boards. New boards can be created at any time by Grandfathered, Lifetime, and Subscribing members.

Active Subjects (Investment) and Active Subjects (Other) is a screen of the boards with the most recent posts. Realtime.

Hot Subjects (Investment) and Hot Subjects (Other) screens the boards with the most posting activity. The default view lists the boards with the greatest percentage increase in new posts in the past 24 hours versus the previous 7 days. Clicking Last 24 hours will list the most active boards in order of new posts made during the past 24 hours. Boards must be at least a week old before qualifying for inclusion on the Hot Lists. Realtime.

Top SubjectMarks is a screen of the most SubjectMarked boards, updated hourly. The list can be sorted by clicking on any of the following column headings:

Total SubjectMarks - Number of Members who currently have the board in their SubjectMarks
Made By Activated Members - Number of Members who have used SI since we changed to the new platform and currently have the board in their SubjectMarks
By Members Active in Past Month - Number of Members who have used SI in the past month and currently have the board in their SubjectMarks
By Members Posting in Past Month - Number of Members who have posted a message anywhere on SI in the past month and currently have the board in their SubjectMarks
SubjectMark Created in Past 90 Days (default) - Number of Members who have added the board to their SubjectMarks in the past 90 days

Top PeopleMarks is a screen of the most PeopleMarked members, updated each night. Members who have not posted in the past 30 days are excluded unless the box is checked and then clicking the Refresh button. The list can be sorted by clicking on any of the following column headings:

Total PeopleMarks - Number of Members who currently have that Member in their PeopleMarks
Made By Activated Members - Number of Members who have used SI since we changed to the new platform and currently have that Member in their PeopleMarks
By Members Active in Past Month - Number of Members who have used SI in the past month and currently have that Member in their PeopleMarks
By Members Posting in Past Month - Number of Members who have posted a message anywhere on SI in the past month and currently have that Member in their PeopleMarks
PeopleMark Created in Past 90 Days (default) - Number of Members who have added that Member to their PeopleMarks in the past 90 days

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