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New forums are added (split out from existing forums) when the number of topics makes them necessary. The first page of the World forum goes back to the end of June. There are not enough topics, let alone NZ topics, to warrant a split right now. Now, if you could get all your friends to join and start posting...  |
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What if we renamed all the Australian Coins and Currency Discussion Forums the Australasian Coins and Currency Discussion Forums?  The first page of the most active one (of the four) goes back to June of last year. It would at least give the NZ coin & currency topics (and Pacific islands if included) a home with more geographic focus.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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JBuck
Possibly a good idea, but many people are so ignorant of New Zealand, they do not even know its part of Australasia and that word and Oceania are rather dated as they lump us altogether. The differences between Australia and New Zealand are like those between the USA and Canada (Hint, NZ is the Canada).
Many people always confuse us with Australians and we are very different *** Political Commentary Removed by the Staff ***
How about "Australian, New Zealand and Pacific coins".
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Pillar of the Community
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New forums are added (split out from existing forums) when the number of topics makes them necessary I blame the "post a/your" topics. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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As a half-Kiwi myself I'd be delighted to see a separate NZ topic and I would definitely post to it!
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Pillar of the Community
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How about "Australian, New Zealand and Pacific coins". That might work. At the very least, it would have been in the description, but I think that is short yet effective enough. Quote:
I blame the "post a/your" topics. A good example of why a split was necessary. |
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Forum Dad
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I blame the "post a/your" topics. I do too. Hate them. Sooooooo many own topic worthy coins are completely lost in them in less than 24 hours after they're posted. |
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I'v lived both places and am married to an Auzzie
I am good with it.
In fact you can blame me for having the Australian coins split out.
rggoodie
aka Richard
"catch em doing something right"
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Forum Dad
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How about "Australian, New Zealand and Pacific coins". Done. I also went through the World coin forums directly in the DB and moved topics with Zealand in the title. Feel free to sue the Send note to staff link to get any others moved. |
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Pillar of the Community
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New forums are added (split out from existing forums) when the number of topics makes them necessary.
The first page of the World forum goes back to the end of June. There are not enough topics, let alone NZ topics, to warrant a split right now.
Now, if you could get all your friends to join and start posting... I've been mulling this over and it does not seem a like a policy that would encourage growth. Wouldn't making more dedicated places encourage more diverse posting? It would at least give people a place to post other than the "post your" topics which can't be easily searched. I can't imagine a mostly empty forum would take up much space. Have you seen an increase in the posting of Australian coins since you created the new section? Edited by Gincoin43
08/09/2020 01:08 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Unfortunately the long history of message boards (not just here, going back to BIX and CompuServe in the 80s) is the more places you offer people to put something, the less likely people are to get it right and the more sections that become ghost towns because people only post in the active section.
There's a reason the NGC board moved everything into just two sections (which are both ghost towns, but that's a different discussion)
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Pillar of the Community
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Big thank you to the moderators and owners who have made these changes and I have started the first two topics already, a coins acquisitions thread and another one explaining NZ Predecimal coins, later ones will deal with Decimal coins.  Come one, come all to the Kiwi coins ball! |
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Forum Dad
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Please look at my post in the acquisitions topic. Every new acquisition should really be in it's own topic.
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Unfortunately the long history of message boards (not just here, going back to BIX and CompuServe in the 80s) is the more places you offer people to put something, the less likely people are to get it right and the more sections that become ghost towns because people only post in the active section. This.  |
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