Stamp Community Posting Etiquette!

This community is a world community & I was thinking about how we describe the Subject's with discussions or sales. Often the the title of the subject is limited to simply a catalog & it's assigned number. I would think it would be in the members interest to always state the country, the catalog & then the number to reduce any possible confusion.

Another situation is when we have used the word "Foreign" in the description of the subject title. Again, as we are a world wide community "Foreign" to one member maybe home to another.
I would suggest that we try to use the word "World" in place of "Foreign" or name the specific country being mentioned, discussed or for sale!

I believe that if we can can do this we can open up to even a larger world of international members by not coming off as Anglo-centric.

Interesting point! I'm suprised none of US Rocket scientists(myself included) thought of pointing this out before! Point well taken and noted! I think many of us now have egg on our faces(again myself included).

Thanks for the reminder!

It is now time for my 15 minute "time out" with NO Stamps as punishment for conduct un-becoming a Philatalist!

Excellent suggestion,
with new members joining all the time,
if one continually reminds members to consider
carefully their topic description, you can end up
appearing to nag.
There are some great threads here, hidden behind
topics that are very difficult to find via the search engine.

Once a query has been solved, it is so easy to rename
the thread topic to accomodate, but with new members
this may be unknown.

Thanks for a much needed reminder.

I, too, agree. Thanks for the reminder.

A great heads up to remind us all that we are a true "global" community where foreign is not necessarily foreign

Well said warrehouse

Dianne

Sounds like a great plan to me. I'll try my best to comply. I'm also guilty of using the word "foreign". Sorry.

I'll change my old ways yet!...

Warrehouse, I respect your opinion but do not agree.

IMO members should Post as they understand within simple Rules, the above statement is easily said and can end up effecting the Majority (Political correctness), eventually leading to unnecessary rules only able to be deciphered by Lawyers so to speak.

If any US or Canadian coleges here call Australian Philatelic material Foreign so be it, they're right from their point of view, cannot be fairer than that.

Great suggestion warrehouse. Nice to see someone thinking!

I believe its something that needed saying..being a little thoughtful goes a long way..we are not a large group..but I like to think of us as a "International Coalition of Stamp Collectors!"

I'd like to pick up and extend this excellent point of Warrehouse's. I spend my days reading texts in languages that aren't my own. I really appreciate well- and carefully written (foreign) language. It's much easier to understand, or not misunderstand.

If SCF wishes, quite rightly, not to come off as Anglo-centric, then the English speakers here might perhaps pay a little more attention to their spelling and grammar. If you don't, you run the risk of locking out the non-English speakers from discussions, to which the non-English speakers might be able to make useful contributions.

It isn't all that hard to click on the Check Spelling tab, and to use Preview, after all

warrehouse:

I'm with you all the way on making the forum inclusive and inviting to everyone.

Your suggestion makes perfect sense to me since the forums are already divided into a broad category of WORLD forums and US forums. Adding a country name would really help in the world forums; of course, in the dedicated USA forums (US Classic, US Mint, US BoB, etc.), it is probably acceptable to simply say, "Scott 10a" or something like that.

I'm guilty of sometimes dumping things in the MAIN forum instead of putting them in their proper place. A general discussion about a country could legitimately placed in MAIN, but I think a question about a particular stamp should go into one of the specific forums.

I also really like what tonymacg said about spelling. In my browser (Firefox), the spell-check is built in. Anything I misspell automatically gets a red squiggly underline. Right-clicking the word will give me the correct spelling in a pop-up menu. We all make typo errors; I can live with that. But it really distracts me when a thread title is misspelled and the author never goes back to fix it.

Anyhoo.... good idea to make the board better.

Kirk

warrehouse said:






Very Well Said!


Cheers

I disagree. Here's why.

I suspect that most people that use SCF use the Active or Last 100 Active options to view topics (as I do). These do not show what part of the forum threads are posted in. Perhaps they could.

As they do not, I know I would find it helpful that even when creating a thread in a country-specific part of the forum, that the country name be included in the title.

Good point, smauggie.

I use the ACTIVE button which does show the forum hierarchy, but I never use LAST 100, so I didn't consider that view of the board.

Thanks for catching it.
Kirk