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Post by michael on Apr 20, 2022 6:19:23 GMT
Considering the number of members here from the UK and the fact they invented the postage stamp  , why isn't there a separate main section for Great Britain stamps within the Europe section? |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Apr 20, 2022 6:34:32 GMT
Hi, michael , and thanks for your post. Sorry, but I am not sure what you are talking about. In the board for Europe, there is a board for Great Britain, with three sub-boards as shown in the screen snip below. This is similar treatment to what you can see for France and Germany in the same view. Am I misunderstanding your point? If you are seeing something different, can you please post an image to show what you are talking about?  |
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Post by michael on Apr 20, 2022 6:45:25 GMT
The Oceania section has Australia, the North America section has USA and Canada plus others, the Europe section has just Europe.
So looking at the Home page within the Europe section you would have Europe and Great Britain.
Sadly GB doesn't host it's own forum and other than US based ones there is only Stampboards. That has good content but an obnoxious owner and that's putting it mildly You have also recently inherited members of the UK based Stamp Magazine forum.
Just go to the home page and see if it would attract UK based members?
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Apr 20, 2022 6:52:58 GMT
OK, michael, I think I understand what you are saying now. Thanks for the further explanation. Only Steve ( Admin) has the ability to make a change like that to the structure of the boards, so I will follow up and raise this point with him. Please don't take it as a deliberate slight against Great Britain. I can't imagine that it is anything more than a simple oversight. Thanks again for your post, Michael. I will discuss with Steve later today. |
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Post by renden on Apr 20, 2022 12:40:55 GMT
I see GB in Europe and in the sub-board with other Countries - I do not understand well the issue but there could be one (to modify).....but the more I look at the Main Sections like ex: North America - CANADA is there - that is a main section - I am sure Chris Beryllium Guy will help solve this with our Admin. René |
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Post by philatelia on Apr 20, 2022 13:12:21 GMT
I just took a peek and IMHO michael ‘s idea has great merit. Great Britain is a massively important philatelic area - the primary and first after all - but you have to scroll down passed a rather long list to find it or weed it out of the paragraph of names. Germany might also be a good candidate for separating out. Of course, this is strictly up to the admin, but I’m a wee bit familiar with editing Proboards forums, and if I remember correctly it is fairly easy to make this type of change. OK I went to my old, inactive forum and tested this. It was a simple matter of adding a new subboard and then clicking and dragging the old one to the new place. So it does appear to be doable without creating a huge amount of work for our very busy volunteers. I'm always VERY hesitant to ask for something that creates someone else a lot of work, you know what I mean? |
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Post by jdtrue66 on Apr 20, 2022 13:51:40 GMT
Totally unsolicited advise I am still new here. But run a few security industry forums and my easy way to decide layout is just by the numbers. If a category, forum, sub forum or even thread reaches some made up number it moves up. That is what members seem to want to talk about. I have done the same with things that died out they move down as others pass them.
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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2022 17:16:30 GMT
The Forum structure was set up as it currently exists, with minor exceptions, shortly after its formation in July 2013.
This structure hasn't seemed to discourage UK membership as 107 of our 709 members hail from the UK (30 of the UK members are inactive).
I'll be restructuring the Forum once the issue has been discussed by the Moderator team.
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Post by daniel on Apr 21, 2022 2:02:00 GMT
In fairness, they are broadly arranged by continent and there are fewer countries in North America than in Europe. All credit to this forum for having separate countries, I'm not aware of any other forum that does that. Also, perhaps apart from Machins, there is relatively little activity in the Great Britain threads. I've added a couple of threads but, as a whole, it is surprisingly sparse. There has been some improvement recently and one hopes that will further improve with new members.
While we're on the subject, I've noticed that the Isle of Man is described, under 'Board Information & Statistics' as 'Semi-autonomous within the British Commonwealth'. This is wrong on two counts, the Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown dependency. That is its full designation. Also, the British Commonwealth became the 'Commonwealth of Nations' with member states being free and equal in1949.
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Post by tomiseksj on Apr 21, 2022 15:34:01 GMT
daniel , Thanks, the correction has been made. michael et al., The Forum structure has been adjusted to break Great Britain out from the rest of Europe. You'll notice that sub-boards have been created for the countries of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. I've also differentiated countries between mainland (continental) and insular Europe. If other adjustments are recommend, please send me a PM.
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Post by michael on Apr 21, 2022 17:34:55 GMT
Thanks for that, looks good .
I hope it proves to be the right decision. |
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Post by jdtrue66 on Apr 21, 2022 20:11:39 GMT
Its a Brexit in stamp forum form lol
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Post by drblade on Apr 23, 2022 9:19:40 GMT
Considering the number of members here from the UK and the fact they invented the postage stamp  , why isn't there a separate main section for Great Britain stamps within the Europe section? Hi, michael. As a born & bred Englishman & proud to be so, I would say we have never been Europeans despite the so called integration of various races via immigration etc. This country joined the EU many years ago (not Europe) when it was supposed to be A COMMON MARKET (trade etc). Nothing to do with land masses. Brexit (supposedly) meant we left the EU. In my opinion a good idea, due to certain European countries, mainly France/Germany trying to turn the EU into a federal state run by Brussels. Hopefully all the EU regulations will become a thing of the past for this country, but politicians here cannot be trusted on this matter (my opinion). I am extremely pleased that GB now has its own "section" here on the forum. |
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Post by angore on Apr 23, 2022 9:41:51 GMT
Wikipedia:
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,[note 1][19] is a sovereign country in north-western Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland.[20][21]
In their definition of "Europe" it includes Iceland. In some definitions it is associated with land mass continents and not a political affiliation.
I am not stating Wikipedia is the definitive source.
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Post by drblade on Apr 23, 2022 9:55:12 GMT
Wikipedia: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,[note 1][19] is a sovereign country in north-western Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland.[20][21] In their definition of "Europe" it includes Iceland. In some definitions it is associated with land mass continents and not a political affiliation. I am not stating Wikipedia is the definitive source. And if you look closely enough into Europe, Brussels & others have been re-writing British & other history to their own versions for a long time now. In addition Royal Mail has different postal tariffs for UK with Europe listed separately as it should be. |
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Post by Admin on Apr 23, 2022 12:08:30 GMT
I am locking this thread before I have to suspend or expel members for rhetoric that violates our norm. This is a stamp forum so let's stick to that.
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, why isn't there a separate main section for Great Britain stamps within the Europe section?
, why isn't there a separate main section for Great Britain stamps within the Europe section?