aa battery, I guess you are referring to the world-famous "kinzli California detecting" site, eh? There is only speculation as to why it's now defunct.
Rumor has it that flack started when site tips (old-town-urban demolition sites) were posted by well-meaning folks in other areas. Like persons who perhaps had just been travelling through a distant town, or saw something in the news, or for whatever reason weren't personally going to able to hunt a site. They might post site tips for others to "keep an eye on". Sounds reasonable (afterall, why see a site go to waste and get fill-dirt put down on top of it?), but the down-side is, that perhaps a local person in
that city or locale had his own eyes on it (waiting for the tractors to start) and didn't appreciate any "site tips" that might bring out sore-thumb indiscreet newbies or whatever. After one such "site tip", a person who feared that this would bring out un-wanted guests to a site he had personally been waiting for, got upset, and perhaps wanted the mod's to pull the post? That started a debate/thread on whether its ok or not to post site tips publically, and if so, how to do it, etc....
There were 3 "site tips" (all urban demo's) posted in a single day or so, only one of which was posted by me (not the one that generated the gripers beef btw).
Anyhow, the forum owner had apparently "had enough" of babysitting gripers, so perhaps he just pulled the plug? Jeff has many varied hobbies and interests (muscle cars, body-building, martial arts, and a host of others). Not just detecting alone, like some of us nuts
So you can imagine he does
not want to have to constantly be a moderator between people who think each other should be silenced, etc....
If Jeff does not bring back up the famous CA specific forum, I guess there's always the Ca specific subsection of this T'net website:
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=1011910cb385529d0f1318a755b2feb9&board=145.0
For us CA guys to brag and post about finds, sites, item-ID's, site-specific stuff, etc... is JUST not the same on a national "finds" type forum. I mean, let's face it: each locale in the USA has its own hunting specifics, history, etc... So a reale or bust coin here, might have no relevance to an east coast guy. Or for example: To a CW southern-state guy, a bullet or CW button may be a great "atteboy" find, but would have no significance to a west coast person. Likewise British finds don't stir up a lot of us USA guys (unless we intend to fly over there or something), and conversely, our 200 yr. old coins would seem like modern child's play to a British hunter. So for these reasons, it was good to have a well-trafficked forum like the Kinzli CA specific forum. I sincerely hope Jeff brings it back. I will personally bring him a 12 pack of his favorite dark beer if he does so!
durn spell check aint wurkin
Sometimes I think it was plain "selfishness" on that "local persons" part.
i'v seen the pictures of were you live 8)
,,,,Thats just what I was going to say,,,, ya beat me to the punch!!!
