04-01-2013, 08:52 AM
Just a simple question to Art and the brass.
What is the ultimate goal here? Is it to be a simple showcase of what sits in members' collections, without much more substance than a few pictures, the date of creation of the award and a few bits of trivia, or is it to be the recognized leader in every single fine aspect related to Soviet-block phaleristics?
As far as I knew, this forum had, from the beginning, decided to focus on Soviet and Soviet-block themes, and going into them as deeply and in as much detail as possible. I see this "move" as a complete dilution of knowledge and efforts, whereas there is still so much to discover, study and detail.
Now, without entering into discussions about ideology, opening the Pandora box of, for example, Third Reich collecting is, IMHO of course, "questionable". This area is replete with fakes of such high-quality that even "experts" cannot come to any agreement. It also happens to be an area "over-catered" and which has its long-established, well-recognized specialty forums (eg: Wermacht-Awards.com). What are we attempting to do here?
Marc
What is the ultimate goal here? Is it to be a simple showcase of what sits in members' collections, without much more substance than a few pictures, the date of creation of the award and a few bits of trivia, or is it to be the recognized leader in every single fine aspect related to Soviet-block phaleristics?
As far as I knew, this forum had, from the beginning, decided to focus on Soviet and Soviet-block themes, and going into them as deeply and in as much detail as possible. I see this "move" as a complete dilution of knowledge and efforts, whereas there is still so much to discover, study and detail.
Now, without entering into discussions about ideology, opening the Pandora box of, for example, Third Reich collecting is, IMHO of course, "questionable". This area is replete with fakes of such high-quality that even "experts" cannot come to any agreement. It also happens to be an area "over-catered" and which has its long-established, well-recognized specialty forums (eg: Wermacht-Awards.com). What are we attempting to do here?
Marc
