Other Orchid Forums

[Marty]

What's wrong with other orchid forums and their owners? I sent an email to a few of them asking if they would like to collaborate and be more open to inter-forum dialogue, so we could become one big community that talks to each other, links to each other's posts and talks more openly - instead of having several semi-independent satellite communities that seem to be in competition with each other. Sort of, if there's something going on at one forum, you make a post about it on another forum to let the others know that something note worthy's taking place. This is the sort of thing we have going on with Heather at SlipperTalk and Peter at BigLeafOrchids (the normal forums!)

By the others, I was basically told OFF and suspected that I'm attempting to steal their forum members and traffic. Complete Paranoia ! They seem to be afraid that if you link out and show your member another site, that automatically run a risk of loose that member. Most of the members are active on other forums any how!

Whatever! It's pretty frustrating at times. I think I'll stop trying to collaborate with other forums and their psycho owners. We will keep on running our dog and pony show here at OrchidBoard the way we've been doing it.