I feel like a major part of what is wrong with TheStreet.com (the flagship site,
not this one) is just a flat out shortage of content. There ARE good things on
it, but not NEARLY enough. In fact, recently there was an interview with Rupert
Murdoch that was EVERYWHERE on investment sites and whatnot. But that was one of
the most widely circulated bits of content from the site. I always felt like TSC
had the potential to fill the niche of the web savvy investor more so than most
sites (i.e. Reuters, CNBC, WSJ), but it never stepped up to the plate. The
company is run so passively it saddens me (as a site sifter and a stockholder).

Instead of this last bunch of layoffs the company should have taken advantage of
its cash and started to grab up a slew of great investment
writers/bloggers/journalists and look in to making some WORTHY acquisitions
(promotions.com WTF?)

But that's just me. I'm 20 and a broke college student who does comedy. What do
I know about running a company?

I wish...........

This site was conceived of as a way to drive traffic to Real Money, produce
income from unique visitors/advertising revenue and be a vibrant social
community - which carries a premium.
It's irrelevant, not even achieving the status of yahoo message boards which, at
least, have a quantity of visitors.
This was once populated by traders who were generous to novices.
The population now ... speak for itself.
It's been a conditioned reflex of mine to rummage through and there's no
rummaging value any longer. The entire day's q&a can be seen on one page and
mostly speaks to opinions - which are extremely interesting to the poster.
The site has permitted a unique combination of irrelevance, cyber-bullying and
drivel.
The vibrancy of slopeofhope.com, Dan's site, Rev's site and plenty of others -
that attract non-drivel and thoughtful posts - has hastened the demise of an
asset that the management (is there management any longer) chose to ignore.
The other sites I mentioned have minimum, shouldn't-even-need-to-be-stated
standards - polite exchanges, a request to spell and use grammar at a sixth
grade education level at minimum and cyber bullies or spammers are removed
without a word, without a trace.
Nasty things and people have been permitted to denigrate others - and it just
keeps on.
I am frankly clueless as to why anyone would continue to populate the site to
read inane opinions and the handful of working traders with craft, not
repetitive drivel, populate a tiny piece of real estate.
I think TSCM continues to be a short because of the continuing stupidity behind
pumping Dykstra, letting Frank Curzio go and letting this be inhabited as it has
been.
Some habits are hard to break but ... finally free.
James Altucher took the money and ran - there's a good lesson in that.
Businessmen move on out smartly.
This is not a place of investment ideas or parsing support/resistance or
anything that potentially could further define a trade.
Done.

to update a site like this would take millions, for design and build, and you
would have to base the expenditure some volume studies (# hits etc) and maybe
with the proliferation of so many investment web sites, mgt did not want to put
money into thestreet. The whole real money / street.com seem to operate
independently, and if you look at the history, which i do not have, it appears
to be a series of purchases with little integration.