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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2820254, member: 112&quot;]There are two entirely different issues involved in your comments. In my previous response of - <i>I think we got all the categories we need. That&#039;s what I think.</i> - I was speaking as one of the two admins of this website. That&#039;s issue number 1.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ya see, what you don&#039;t you realize is that there have been literally thousands of suggestions to add this category or that category (meaning a new forum section). Thousands of them, that is not an exaggeration. So imagine what this website would be like when trying to navigate it if we had 20-30 or more pages of different forum sections. It would be utter chaos. What I&#039;m trying to get you to realize is that when it comes to creating a forum there is a fine line between how many is enough categories and how many are too dang many of them ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Issue number two was your suggestion of - &quot;But, how about an area/forum that lists or identifies a member with a particular specialty?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>That suggestion creates several problems. Only one of which I addressed in my previous comments. Namely - who decides which forum member is identified as having a particular specialty, and who decides if that member is even qualified to answer questions on a specific subject ? But another problem would be where exactly would these new forum sections be put ? And how many of them would there be ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Think about that for a minute. With just US coins alone you would need literally hundreds of new forum sections, one for each specific type, where questions could be asked and answers provided by an &quot;expert&quot; on that specific type. Then you&#039;d have to do the same thing with all the different coin types from all the different countries.</p><p><br /></p><p>And if you tried to put all these &quot;experts&quot; together in just 1 new forum section, what would you have then ? You&#039;d have coins from all over the world, all of the different types, all mixed together in 1 forum section. Can you imagine anybody trying to find something specific in that ? </p><p><br /></p><p>And then there&#039;s another problem. Even if you created all these new forum sections where &quot;experts&quot; could answer, who&#039;s to say these &quot;experts&quot; even would answer ? I mean, they would have to be willing to do so wouldn&#039;t they ? </p><p><br /></p><p>And lastly, how would we keep all the people who are not &quot;experts&quot; from replying and giving their 2 cents worth on any given subject, in any or all of these specialized forum sections ? </p><p><br /></p><p>In the end, we&#039;d have pretty much what we have now, except we&#039;d have a whole lot more different forum sections to have to navigate through.</p><p><br /></p><p>Short and sweet that&#039;s why thing are the way they are. That&#039;s why the forum is set up the way it is with generalized forum sections that allow at least a modicum of separation for different subject matter. Too little is bad, and too much is equally bad, and potentially much worse.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what is my suggestion ? Leave things the way they are. It&#039;s as good as we can make it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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