jovee made a good point.
In addition to what alain and maxrum have said, it actually makes more sense to understand how QN has evolved the past few years.
Unknown to most people, QN has been in existence since 2003 as a private, closed community for the Baruch MFE program. Only since mid 2006, has it been open to the public as a way to provide information to prospective students of the program.
Incidentally, the quote that jovee used was from my post back in 2006 when we pondered the direction of Quantnet. Then, majority of our members was affiliated with Baruch MFE program. Now, three years later, among the 6000+ and growing members, only about 100 or so are. That said, these 100 are the long time posters that contribute the most to the growth of QN. Their accumulative knowledge of Baruch MFE program is what jovee sensed in his comment.
To say the sole purpose of QN is to market the program is misleading and undermining our community effort to make QN useful to the financial engineering community at large.
We have make every effort for other programs to avail their information to the public.
Case in point:
Main Page - Quantnet Wiki
We have invited every program in the NYC area to contribute to that wiki. Anyone with a QN account can edit entries and make as much info available as they like. It is their right not to take advantage of that.
We are more than welcome to people with first hand experience of other programs to come and contribute here on Quantnet.
Case in point: member
financeguy has come and gave good press for his Columbia MSOR program. It's one the examples I can give you to show that making Quantnet a Baruch centric is never our goal. If that's the case, we wouldn't have made this site public.
To make this more school neutral, it would require people from all path of life come and contribute. That is easier said than done and we have done our part to make it as easy as possible. QN has been out there for a while so it's not to say other programs are not aware of our existence. It may take a while but I have no doubt that eventually we will fulfill our goal of making QN the place.
Now that I have my piece, I'd like to hear what features you like to have on QN.
