Just Wondering

Originally forums and chat-rooms were two separate ways to communicate. Forums were a useful tool to post a question to begin a discussion and have people reply when they were able to get on-line which kept things focused. Chat rooms were the place where you could go to talk about yourself, your viewpoints, politics, and get off-topic as much as you wanted to. Lately I've noticed that forums are being flooded with "chat room" behavior.

I'm a member of another coin forum, but over there it isn't as organized as this one nor as informative. This forum has knowledgeable people that WANT to share and explain things clearly. The other forum h4s pplease try1ng 0uT th31r l33t 1ntern3t lingo, short answers, and threads go off-topic into politics, personal viewpoints, arguments, etc. all the time. Basically they are exhibiting "chat room" behavior on a forum. For example, I remember a thread concerning the new presidential wives coins where the original thread started out with a serious inquiry regarding the series. Within 1 or 2 responses it began to go off-topic, never got back on track, and turned into a bashing session regarding that series and on into politics.

Anyway, I feel this is the best coin forum out there

It's a testament to the members here, it really is.



It's very rare that a topic goes too far astray here and when it does, one of the staff will split the straying posts into a new topic in the appropriate forum very early on. They will then email the members whose posts got split so they know where they went. Most of you don't even notice.

CC is the only coin forum I belong to or visit. A couple of years ago I looked at other forums and found a lot of people constantly flaming each other over stupid stuff that didn't matter anyway. They weren't very helpful to novice collectors either. I found CC and members that really do know about their specialty and haven't really looked anywhere else. Two thumbs up to mom & dad for CC being a success!

FroDaddy. What you discribed is true of many of the other coin forums. For sure about the getting off track of the question. Some you could ask what is a Wheat cent and end up after a few answers with almost a fist fight if possible over the internet.
We too have a few nuts, me, but in general, this is a great coin web site.