Charlives
Elite Member
Would it be a good idea to give coins their own forum area and merge relics with cashe/bottles? There are so many great finds that nothing stays on the front page for more than a few hours.
Understandable, but I'm not suggesting adding another sub forum, I'm suggesting moving coins out by itself and move cashe/bottles into relics. Would be the same number of sub forums. What do you think?Carol and Vlad like a small compact forum so I doubt they would add another subforum... we have Stories and Pictures of Finds plus the Coinshooters and Relic section...
I too think that makes sense. Personally I would break them into two and kill the stories forum, and have all the posts from it absorbed into the new coins and relics forum, with the rest no doubt going to the Eye popping finds one. The way things stand right now there's basically two spots for new posts (Coins and Relics & Stories) and for lack of a better word it's a bit of a mess. I don't usually like suggesting things like this because I sure wouldn't want to put in the effort to change them, but I think it would be better so I'll say it.
So I would change to this...
Coins forum
Relics forum (maybe with cache and bottles as suggested)
Eye Popping finds and Stories Forum. (They're for the most part the same anyway)
If possible I would simply move all Stories forum posts under the Eye Popping category, Change the Coins and Relics to just coins and leave the posts as is, then add a Relics forum.
I think that works better and is actually more compact than right now. I should also say I'm a big fan of being compact, and my Treasure Net page has about the same number of forums as this site because I have 90% of it blocked. I'm also a person who constantly thinks about simpler and better ways to do things.
Just tossin' an idea out there like spaghetti against the wall. Some stick, some don't.
I normally dig everything, so I don't know what all I'm going to have at the end of the day. Sometimes there are some interesting older coins, strange metal objects, bullets. Have been trying to post it all as well, including the trash items. Think I'd lose interest in posting, if I had to separate everything into specific categories, or distinguish between trash and relics.
For the past month, with the new machine, I've been mostly focused on silver coins, no luck, but lots of rusty iron, few more coins. Pretty much believe if there is silver, it's still much deeper.
most coin shooters only click on threads with "silver" in the title line causing the relic threads to get pushed down by all the etrac users posting threads with "silver" in the title