New Ghost Members.

Can someone tell me why so many people sign on to SCF
and then just disappear without making even one post.

There are at least 10 pages of those.

I realize on some sites you actually have to join
in order to be able to view the pics for instance
but since this isn't the case here on SCF, why sign up
and then don't participate?

I've noticed if you search Google about a stamp theme or idea that new topics show up from SCF quite often, take example the Perfin thread I started a week ago. boom we suddenly had a few new members join to help us with perfins.

I believe these ghosts are people searching Google see the link click it check it out and go on their way, some do stay thats GREAT!

It can be for any number of reasons. I know for myself I was looking for something that was easy to jump in on. I felt real small compared to what some of the members I saw posting and what they knew. I was a returning collector and I knew that I was going to be years behind in stamp info. I would just surf through and read through the posts until I felt that I wasn't sooooo small...lol

Donna

Donna and Edwin those are good points you're raising but you can
do all that without signing on.

I also was a lurker on this site a couple of years ago checking
in now and then. I didn't join at that time because I got
the impression it dealt mostly with US and some Canada whereas
I also collect various Western Europe.

But when I finally did sign up, my intention and desire was to participate, otherwise I could have just continued
lurking without signing up.

I have noticed the same thing. There have been several new members in the past few days but most have not posted. If the new members were automatically directed to the introduce yourself forum as part of the registration I think it would help. Once someone post in that area and the members respond it seems to break the ice.

Maybe its me and my alternate personalities, all 500 of them.

Donna, you are not small and don't you go thinking you are. We all appreciate you here and I am glad you are here most of all.


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Someone like me who types a lot may seem to know something but I do not know much really. Sometimes I think I do and can go on at lengths about it but usually someone will bring me back to earth about it rather quickly.

Good thing too. If I didn't post and say something then I wouldn't have learned new things. This helps me and also others who don't want to type a lot or ask a silly question maybe (there are no silly or wrong questions, just silly or wrong answers).

I mean, if I don't make mistakes I'm not learning and living.

Asking questions is contributing in a big way. It helps the questioner and also helps those who thought they knew the answer (but don't, or only know some of it) and also helps those who do know the answer(s) as they have to refresh themselves on it and practice phrasing things correctly to give a good answer, and that takes practice too.

It's fun to share knowledge and help others while at the same time helping yourself by refreshing or relearning.

To be a master at something, according to a study reported in the book 'Outliers', you have to have 10,000 hours of practice at it. 8,000 to be Good and 4,000 to teach something about it. How does one get so practiced you may ask? By asking questions and making mistakes and learning new stuff.

Patience young Grasshoppers.

If you get to a place where you are frustrated and feel you can't go any farther, ask yourself, how many hours in on this am I? 1? 4? 10? 100? Now compare that to the 10,000 hour mark of mastery. Kind of puts it all in perspective doesn't it?

Where do You want to go today?

What questions have You asked today?

Puzzler, Well stated.

The Ghost members from Colorado
use these stamps on their letters.

But I do not understand the Ghostage.. 1 Divt Au

I divt of gold, what is a divt

Colorado Ghost Post founded 1975 by Russell Morse in Denver. Said to be in existence until 1977. Founded as a local post at the time when U.S. was entering bicentennial (1976), Colorado centennial (1976) and Denver was to host the winter Olympics. Believed to be a cinderella with no postal use other than a promotional Denver to Washington delivery.

I believe that is "dwt" (pennyweight).

Thanks to Russ for the info,
and deafening applause to khj (denarius weight) =dwt

Thanks boys.

A pennyweight (abbreviated dwt) is a unit of mass that is equal to 24 grains, 1/240 of a troy pound, 1/20 of a troy ounce, approximately 0.054857 avoirdupois ounce [1] and approximately 1.555 grams.[2]

Historically, a British penny's weight was literally, as well as monetarily, 1/240 of a troy pound of sterling silver. The troy pound and the pennyweight lost their official status in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the Weights and Measures Act of 1878. Only the troy ounce and its decimal subdivisions remained official after the 1878 act. The troy ounce enjoys a specific legal exemption from metrication in the UK.

The pennyweight is the common weight used in the valuation and measurement of precious metals. Jewellers use the pennyweight in calculating the amount and cost of precious metals used in fabricating or casting jewelry. Similarly, dentists and dental labs still use the pennyweight as the measure of precious metals in dental crownsed and inlays.[citation needed]

The most common abbreviation for pennyweight is dwt; d, for the Roman denarius, was the abbreviation for penny before decimalisation of the British monetary system. Alternate abbreviations are pwt and PW.

The pennyweight bears no relation to the weight of current penny coins. The weight of a US penny minted after 1982, for example, is 2.5 grams.[3]

With the price of gold through the roof ten pennyweights is not a trivial amount.

In 1975 gold was abot $150-185/oz USD.

Litho, I ponder the same thing...either I join something or I do not..i guess they join and then find out its not what they thought it was going to be..of course some just sign up to see if a kiddie collection they found from the 1970's is worth anything !!

I also think that in the "introduce yourself" area, your posts do not count. But I could be wrong. Someone could sign in and post there and then not participate in any other topics, so there post count would be 0.

I tipped Gold with the World financial crisis,
it was then about $735 an ounce.
I was only prepared to risk $10,000.
But what to do now? If mining in our north
ever collapses, we shall have this raft of people
looking to be housed, House prices you would think would
fall, due to the unemployment, but the demand for housing
would rise (rental housing). ?? A very strange awkward situation.
We live in interesting times.
If I were 30 or so, I'd be working at debt reduction
Getting a roof over my head with a minimal mortgage.