Poll: should the forum be split into two separate ones?

wybrit

You have all posted/read the comments in this thread. Now all the posters (and lurkers) can cast their vote and be counted.

Aethelred

I for one am happy with the current order of things.

AuldFartte

Let's leave it exactly like it is right now. I mean, how can we improve on perfection ???

laurentyvan

Forum members who propose a seperate forum for ancients are asking for a forum with very little (at this time) participation. Ancients compromise a distinct but small membership who would (perhaps) achieve a small but significant percentage of the participation of the stamp forum (a worthy but not necessarily large group).

If PCGS found a membership with a large enough voice that would warrent another forum and be profitable (i.e. enough ancients to attribute and the expertise to do so) they probably would, but if not, then not.

As Elverno said (inadequate paraphrasing) "it's the variety that I enjoy": members who are interested in ancients, middle ages, early milled, modern, etc., post images that make this forum very interesting and diverse.

My collecting interests lie primarily in the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th century time frame but I enjoy (enormously) the diversity of 2000 BC to 1600 AD that I see posted on this forum. Members images and interests that do not coincide with mine are sometimes paths that I tend to follow that I might not have otherwise chosen to. Members who collect ancients can give the more modern collector a real history and connectivity to what they enjoy. We (together) can span the ages...

We see medals, ancients, moderns, and everything in-between: do not strip this forum of its diversity and render it sterile. I enjoy the US coin forum (and rarely participate) but they have enough participation to more than justify their existence, as do we in the World and Ancients forum.

Perhaps our forum members should identify their posts with key words like Ancient, Modern, etc. in order to placate those who do not wish to search through (their own words) chaff...

I tend to view ancients as older world coins, not to be seperated from general world coins. This is probably an uninformed position, but so be it.

RedPenny

I am pretty happy with current one.

spinaker2000

I like it the way it is. In the words of the great philosopher Mr. Spock, "The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the one."

CIVITAS

I think it works just fine as is. Besides, if you really want to split darkside hairs, then we would need a British Forum and an All the Rest Forum as well.

spoon

It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it'll catch on as there are so many other ancient collector forums and PCGS doesn't do ancients.

Anyway, I'm with Vern and Laurent.. I like the diversity!

MacCrimmon

<< <i>then we would need a British Forum and an All the Rest Forum .... >>


You meant a Victoria Forum, right? I nominate Wybrit as the Moderator!

newbiecollector

I originally said NO and tried to explain why...........Ya know?......I stiil think that

Sylvestius

If one were inclined to split the forum (only hypothetically per say).

Then i personally would suggest slicing the darkside forum in half at 1800/1801, 19th century upwards would easily fill one forum without much trouble. 18th century and before would be a more populated other forum than say purely ancients.

That's just a thought for future reference incase we ever have an explosion of members and the forum becomes too big to handle, no worry about that happening anytime soon though!

Compa

Why the poll?

Was the other thread not clear enough or do you feel that there are simply some here who don't read very well and need it all spelled out for them?

WhiteTornado

I think it's fine as is.

northcoin

"Why the Poll?" I think wybrit felt sorry for me and wanted to give some assurance that there was a "silent minority" that actually agreed splitting the forum was a good idea. (I do like the suggestion above though that in our headings we better identify if the topic is ancients or world coins as a compromised solution. Also the idea about division by time (Pre and post 1800's) is a good one too.

spinaker2000

why the poll??

we don't get many polls here, and we like graphs!!

wybrit

I think wybrit felt sorry for me and wanted to give some assurance that there was a "silent minority" that actually agreed splitting the forum was a good idea.

Sorry, that was not my motivation.

I instituted the poll to show the numbers behind the posts, knowing full well that a lot of opinions would not be known any other way. While I didn't vote (I put in a phony third category and then deleted it so I could see the results), I agree with the majority. I am a collector of British "moderns" by your definition, but I like the passion others here have for their collections and I like and share the desire to learn new things about other coinages, including ancients.

If the forum was split in two, the sum of the parts would be quite a bit less than the whole.

wybrit

Why the poll?

Because I was too lazy to count up the pro and con posts in the other thread, because I like numbers and because many are too shy to post their opinions on controversial subjects, but few are too shy to vote anonymously. In the case of reason #3, I guess you could say that Northcoin was right.

Aethelred

I agree that it might not be a bad idea to begin threads about ancient coins with the word "ANCIENT:" in all caps.

ex.:

ANCIENT: How would you grade this Tetradrachm?

TheShaman10

Delurked, and no. It's great the way it is.

sumnom

It's fine as is.

Philip

No, things are fine that way.