Reid Goldsborough wrote:
On 4/8/2010 8:12 AM, EricBabula wrote:

But, it looks like RCC is very quiet - is that true?

RCC is a lot quieter than it has ever been, probably since shortly
after its creation. There's so little traffic relatively speaking
that for the most part dealers as well as collectors don't even
bother posting For Sale messages here anymore. The two guys who used
to post news stories about coins that they found on the Net, a really
good source of on-topic content, don't bother doing that here anymore
either. A lot of other really smart coin people have left too,
including some who were here for a long time.

The reasons are as you'd expect, mostly a continued intensification of
previous trends, which affects all newsgroups, though some more than
others. I'd list them this way in terms of importance:

[appropriate snips made in following]

1) Excessive chitchat [misspelling corrected].

2) Anonymous flaming.

3) The ending of free newsfeeds by just about all the major ISPs.

#3 is eminently valid as a reason to explain why many people have left
permanently. But to say that #1 trumps #2 is absurd, Reid. And WTH are you
to determine what is "excessive"?

James the Chitchatter