I think it's because this board is very localized, we meet face to face or have friends that have met face to face with other members. It tends to make things more civil and honest.

From a sponsers perspective, the sponsers that stay in touch and treat everyone honestly are much more likely to get repeat business because word travels fast "behind" the scenes



Oh yeah and the moderators do a great job too :mrgreen:

*edit* at least thats the reason this board is the only one I ever visit, I shouldn't really speak for anyone else :razz:

Staff is great no doubt. Also being Canadian we are a little more tolerant of fools and don't flame them outright.

If post titled "My tangs keep dying in my 10 gallon tank, Help!" appears on some of the other boards the poster gets ripped a new one. Here they would probably get the advice they need to keep a saltwater tank without too much Agro.

Well maybe Naesco would weigh in heavy but he is on team "Fish" and that is alright by me. :wink:

CanReef rocks for the day to day chat. It's also nice there is regular members always posting and keeping things balanced. I like to keep update to try to keep up to date on RC, but its damn near impossible.

Check out www.alexa.com for a site's traffic rank. It's an interesting way to rate how busy a site is. My website gets a nice score of 6,352 (non-fish related)

you have to take into account that there is usually between 1000 and 3000 people online and the search function is taking nonstop abuse. if you want to search RC, go to google and after entering your search click on 'advanced search' and enter 'reefcentral.com' under the 'Search within a site or domain" heading. this gives you loads of links to the forum and their archives.


not trying to take anything away from the search engine here but i hear a lot of people say the same thing about searching RC and it's so simple.

HTH

You can do the same google search without advanced search by including "domain:reefcentral.com" anywhere in the search.

ie - dendro domain:reefcentral.com

I'm a premium member at RC and the search nearly never fails. Very rare.

Regarding the people over there though...it seems to me the really opinionated and elitist posters post much more often than the normal folk. This really inflates that sense that the board is overrun. I think for the massive userbase it's still pretty good. I enjoy browsing canreef a lot more but RC is so massive that it's very useful. Without premium search I doubt I'd go there much though.

I first started on thsi board with a tonne of questions and the reference libraries put together by Myka and ChristyF5 were pretty much the reason I was on here every day.

so they get you hooked early on.

Intersting. Generally not my experience here in Toronto, sure you meet a few good people along the way, but generally it is just in and out at the LFS. Perhaps it is just the the Toronto way...

Agree about the moderators, and appreciate your thoughts regarding the word of mouth. Hope it is true!

In my experience, Canadians are nicer once you travel west of Manitoba and east of Quebec ;) :lol:

yes, thumbs up for the mods, plus Titus for the board itself.