Stamp Community Family Forum Is Number 1

I am a member of both.

I will say that, to be fair, they get an awful lot of Australian traffic and we get a lot of American traffic. You're looking at peak traffic times being during rather different times of the day.

It's a good resource but not a place for the thin-skinned.

Actually both screenshots were taken at approx 5 pm
on Sunday February 8, 2015 in each respective time zone.

Sydney Australia is in the AEDT – Australian Eastern Daylight Time (Daylight Saving Time) zone
I and SCF forum are in the EST – Eastern Standard Time / Eastern Time (Standard Time) zone.

They are 16 hours ahead.
First screenshot I took at 1:09am EST when it was 17:09pm (5:09pm)
Sydney AEDT time

16 hours later when it was 5:15pm EST here I took the
the SCF screenshot.

Therefore the same time of day but obviously
not at the same time.

I'm registered on both and I agree with the above quotes. The comments by the moderators on the other forum are frequently abrasive and uncalled for. The posters on this forum are much more congenial. Who cares if the other forum might have more on-line traffic?

Don

I had links to my website, www.stamphacks.com, marked as not safe, because the word "hack" is in the name. I've been a member there since 2009, and really have gotten nothing useful out of that place. I've had my threads moved and merged with other threads, and I have had other threads locked, and one thread removed and been threatened with banning on one occasion.

Then I found this place. There is a reason my post count is 2367 here. Well, 2368 now. :-)

I'll echo the sentiments that this is the *best* stamp board I've found. Other boards seem to have "issues" such as tyrannical moderators, lack of activity, or petty bickering amongst members. This board doesn't seem to experience any of those things and it's my first stop when going online for philately.

Well,

There's one moderator there who does often chase newbies off and it's not Glenn. Friend of mine unbeknownst to me is spending huge sums on Australian stamps of late. (We're friends not from the stamp world) Basically he wants a collection like Arthur Grey's.

So I mentioned stampboards to him, and he was well aware. Apparently he registered there, asked an innocent question, was berated and called an idiot by one moderator, etc.. I think it was because he didn't mention something correctly in a title.

Multimillionaire with multiple Ivy League degrees. Guy just turned 40 and is a Whale.

Has zero interest in that board or anything having to do with it. IMO it's Glenn's loss as apparently he does deal in nice material.

It seems the majority of those posting over there are moderators, which I guess is what you get when you chase everyone else off

Jenny2U, what on earth are you talking about?

...With jenny2U

I agree with many of the comments about this forum. I login just about everyday, even if I don't post there are always interesting topics to read.

It's well and good to boast of gazillions of members, but how meaningless if they don't participate. There are never more than 20-30 "registered" users online and when factoring in posts by the large number of moderators (!), the number of posts by "others" is low.

That forum has chosen to be closed to all who do not follow archaic rules of posting, which is fine, but please no more bragging about being the No#1 place to discuss stamp collecting.

Jenny2U I'm afraid you're talking complete nonsense. You would have done better to do a little more research before making such a very silly claim.

I know one thread I started there very well. It has had 12,208 posts to date, of which fewer than 10 have been from Moderators. Not about Australian stamps in any manner, and if you actually looked over the site, you'd find that was not unrepresentative.

Archaic rules of posting? Including images of what you're talking about? Framing headings of threads meaningfully? If those are archaic, then I'm proud to wear the label. Some members here may be satisfied with meaningless titles and no illustrations of what they're talking about. I find it frustrating at best, and time-wasting at worse.

It's not that the rules are archaic or arbitrary, but rather the manner in which they are communicated and enforced and the way new members are treated. The owner there suffers from what is unfortunately an all too common malady amongst single-person-owned forums of all kinds: Big Fish in Little Pond Syndrome (that's the polite way of saying it).

There are stories I could tell, but I won't, as no good can possibly come of it.

Instead, rather than worrying about who does what to whom on other message boards, let's just enjoy what we have here.

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OK. This is turning into 'forum bashing' which was not the intent of the Original Post.

I'm locking this; hoping we'll move on to more stamp stuff and less website stuff.

Kirk