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Post by Original Admin on Apr 8, 2009 11:32:05 GMT -5
Howde all, James Bernard is our new addition and hes gonna be a great pal for his brother Luke (I hope they get on!!!!) Born April 2nd at 8:40am. Cheers Mark
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Post by Original Admin on Mar 25, 2009 5:07:32 GMT -5
Cheers all - spent the day in the park, had a kentucky, had some beer, fell asleep on the settee! Lukes fine Doc - hes runnin me ragged!! Mark
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 24, 2009 14:34:17 GMT -5
Thats a nice clean cut and smart looking blog. Thanks for the comments about our forum here - they are much appreciated.
Mark
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 24, 2009 8:27:31 GMT -5
Thanks again for all the comments ive tried to reply to all of them and thanks for voting. I'll put the new boards up later - Luke wants to go to the park and I cant stop/say no to the little chap!!! Mark
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 24, 2009 8:26:21 GMT -5
Michaeljohn, Sorry you couldnt vote - why couldnt you? Did you get an error? The vote has been fairly strong in favor of the new board, I think theres overlap as Ive mentioned, but fossils are a massive topic and people would like to give a new board a try. I think it will help as the board will be so very specific. Cheers Mark Fossils are usually Specimens (we have a forum for that), but if you cut them they're slabs (we have a forum for that), and then if you take it further they're cabs (we have a forum for that). I guess they could be tumbled, too (we have a forum for that), or wrapped (we have a forum for that). Sorry, but I gotta go thumbs-down on this one ... the bases are already covered. Edit: I WOULD go thumbs-down if the poll would let me vote.
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 24, 2009 8:22:06 GMT -5
CPdad, I am hoping that yes it may draw some more interested people in. Yes regarding google - they are a success arent they. Cheers Mark mark....having a fossils board may draw more folks here.....that could actually be a good thing.....i have some that may need to be identified in the future.....it may be slow for awhile.....but hey.... think about google.....hahaha ;D .....but again.....fossils have gathered great interest in other sections when posted. i aint gonna vote here either....kev.
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 24, 2009 8:19:07 GMT -5
Akansan, If someone were to request a new section then I have to have a vote to be fair on everyone, and these boards are both requests from members. I think/hope that a separate fossil board would encourage deeper discussion where required by people interested. If you have a wrapped fossil - it can now go in the creations board. Or if you didnt want to show it as a "creation", but wanted to know what the fossil was, you could put it in the fossils board and ask and hopefully an accurate answer would come back. Cheers Mark I guess my thought is if you start with Fossils, next comes the separate category for minerals. I understand the break out for specimens, but most fossils are purely specimens. If that fossil is cabbed, then we already have a cab area. If it's wrapped, then we already have a spot for that. Yes, there's recent activity in the specimens thread on fossils, but how sustained will that activity be? saskrock - eliminating original categories makes you lose a LOT of threads. And I might be wrong, but I think each thread has to be moved manually. There's no magic button that says all threads in X now belong in Y.
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 24, 2009 8:13:59 GMT -5
Mswieting I would have to address combining boards and moving them around at another time. I do agree we could sharpen things up a bit in other areas. Its never perfect but hopefully comfortable if everyone reading gets my drift. Cheers Mark I actually agree about there being too many already, but I think that there should be a fossil section as it is a different area. In my opinion other sections we have now should be eliminated/combined however as a lot of them are branches of the same things. 1- Rock Tumbling and Rock Tumbling Photos should be in the same section. If nothing else I say gets looked at oh well not a big deal but this one thing should really be done. These I think would be nice as it would save me a lot of section jumping. 2- Creating Cabochons and Wire Wraping should be in a Jewlery/lapidary work section lapidary tips could likely be a subsection of this. 3- Almost everyone puts their rock trip pictures in member photographs instead of Location Location no mater what the small print says so we could combine these. 4- the general rocks board has so little on it now it could likely be eliminated. Things would get posted elsewhere on the board. Basicaly I feel that the original increase in areas was a good idea but i'm not to sure about how it was increased.
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 24, 2009 8:11:19 GMT -5
Adrian, I like the idea of separating them from the specimen area because it may promote / generate interest in its own right as opposed to being mixed up with specimens. "Fossils" are an enourmous topic - and as above - I would hope we could even attract new members by having a section. Cheers Mark Fossils are great, but I think if a "fossils" board would appear, only a few fossil addicted persons (including me) would visit it. If the fossils would be posted in the specimens area (which was a great upgrade) maybe more of us would watch them. Adrian
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 24, 2009 8:08:57 GMT -5
RollingStone Referencing the number of members reading and posting, what I am hoping in part is that by including a fossils section we may attract more folk from the search engines - these may also have a general lapidary interest aswell. Cheers Mark From an organization standpoint, it makes good sense. But from a personal perspective... I only read one or two boards here on any sort of regular basis, so more boards would just mean more boards that I never look at. I'm not convinced that there are enough members reading and posting on this forum to warrant any more subdivisions at this time. -Don
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 24, 2009 8:06:34 GMT -5
Deb193 - Yes - I agree. Fossil chat (as mentioned in my post above) at a certain level of expertise is deserving of its own board. Cheers Mark specimimen is good enough for fossil pics, but might get cluttered with fossil chat
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 24, 2009 8:05:04 GMT -5
Texaswoodie, I do think theres a slight overlap on the specimen board with fossils - theres no doubt about it. The fossil board is a narrowing in on the topic and I would anticipate people coming along (who may not be members here yet or have ever heard of us) who would go into some extra depth topical chat such as which era the fossils are from, what kind of sediments they are in, where the rockbeds were, maybe the evolution tree etc. So I think (hope) it would encourage discussions in this field. I have to admit that a fossils board in particular would be useful for myself (perhaps selfishly) as Im interested in them also. I think polished petwood has the potential to go in either board (specimen or fossil) Cheers Mark I don't know. I was thinking this was what the Specimen board was for. If we have a fossil board my pet wood would have to go in the fossil section. I guess the Specimen board could be used for agates, jaspers and such. I'm all for whatever the folks vote for. Curt
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 24, 2009 7:53:52 GMT -5
I think that answers the posted questions on this board - thanks for everyones comments and for placing votes. Cheers Mark
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 24, 2009 7:52:18 GMT -5
Frane, with some of the boards now turning over in just a few days, Im hoping these (as both boards are voted "in" as it were) boards will allow peoples posts in various places to stay on the front page of posts within a given section for a short while longer overall. So that along with new clearer sections to help organise the topics is a good reason to have them. Cheers Mark I too have noticed lately that things are posted in the wrong places quite a bit. Maybe clarifying or adding to each sub category and maybe just adding one new category, like fossils for all the dinosaur bones, etc that people find. That would keep it from getting too big. Over all, I like how this board looks and what has been done with it. What ever you decide, I will be here. Fran
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 24, 2009 7:48:06 GMT -5
Cpdad, I think that theres nothing wrong in starting a thread in the creations board say, and then a quick post in the general or life and universe section pointing to it if the originating poster wants more comments and isnt getting them. Yes if a board simply fails i'll zap it anyway - its a case of try and see. Cheers Mark dont care one way or the other....but aint the member photo section for other stuff?.......aint the life universe section for other stuff also?...both sections are highly visited. but on the flip side...i can understand about chain mail....tree stuff and even things like snowdogs churches.......BUT....when the chain mail.....trees....and churches came up on the board.....they received great interest and responses in what ever section they came up in. i aint voting....but it seems like if it of interest....it does ok....kev.
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 24, 2009 7:46:22 GMT -5
Biker, I would say that the creations board is for anything which maybe has a use such as necklasses, bracelets, rings, earrings, ornaments, bookends, tables even - made from more than one piece of stone or maybe includes other materials - wood or metal or both for example. At a glance - I could also see the odd single flat polished pet wood being posted in there - but would also fit in the specimen forum aswell. Hope this helps and also for others thinking the same. Cheers Mark Hmm, a good idea; but, just for clarification: would finished "specimens" (such as a flat polished pet wood round) go into creations or specimens?
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 21, 2009 9:39:42 GMT -5
This board is down to a recent request via PM whereby the member is uncertain where to place posts which are specifically about the "final product" of the craft.
So - if I were making necklasses for instance, I would like to post them in a jewelry section. But if I were making wind chimes - then where would they go? (In otherwords I cant just have a jewelry forum as it doesnt really cover enough final creations).
Creations - A board to post pictures and chat about the items made by members using stone and anything else required.
I would place this beneath the WireWrap forum and leave the wirewrap forum there - as that is quite a large and popular topic in its own right.
I will leave the voting until Saturday 24th Dinner time uk. Cheers Mark
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 21, 2009 9:34:17 GMT -5
Hi All,
We have a request for a new board, the request comes from Saskrock yesterday.
I think its time the forum spread out a bit - maybe even adding to its title like "RTH and Everything Rocks!" - I dont know - along those lines anyway.
The new forum would read. Fossils - For Pictures and Chat relating specifically to all things Fossilized.
I would place the new forum in the "More Rock Topics and Hobbies" section.
I'll let the voting go until Saturday 24th about midday UK time. Cheers Mark
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 15, 2009 21:48:08 GMT -5
Congrats and best wishes to you both! Nice one. Mark
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 5, 2009 19:19:11 GMT -5
Happy new year!! Jeez Im always late saying this - its been a really busy time. I hope everyones 2009 is a good one. And - without doubt thanks everyone for making this board what it is today. Cheers Mark
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