this is borderline illegal

Certainly! go ahead

Oh that's done on purpose :) I always thought that the HN banner was a little too small, so I decided to make mine a little larger

The scarcity of comments is explained away by the fact that the website has been made public only very recently. But thank you, yours is a good suggestion

That is true: I was going for a funny and short name that's easy to remember, but I realize now how boredBanker comes across as lazy and not conducive to interesting discussions.

EDIT: I am currently considering changing the domain (and the title)

Don't !

BoredBanker is an excellent name - memorable, amusing & not overly long. There's already enough dry, grey, "serious" content associated with this industry - having an offbeat and slightly subversive name will be part of your appeal.

People who tell you they won't use the site because of the name are being disingenuous - if the quality of news & discussion is good enough they'll come.

Exactly, Windows "Vista", the "Xbox", the "Wii", the "iPad".. and more were all ridiculed as stupid names early on but all became serious brands. You couldn't move online for jokes about the "iPad" being a female hygiene product for a while around the launch..

Bored banker here. I think it's a great name. It shows that even though a lot of people look at the finance world as high-energy and lucrative, in reality it's a bunch of overly-confident young guns looking at spreadsheets all day. I felt like the domain was calling my name..

Thank you sir. Banker News is a great name! So simple, yet I hadn't though about it

There is none. I have made this website because I wanted something like Hacker News for finance and economics and there wasn't one.

True, but thats also because your target market has dynamics very different from your average hacker and even your early adopters behave differently.

It always comes down to community.

How long/how much does it cost to run this? I'm curious. Well done with it. Other than a name change, I think this is very useful.

Hosting something like this would be very cheap. A $40 a month VPS could handle it for a while and if it outgrows that then it will be worth something.

exactly