The Question of the Day is a way to facilitate community discussion to help members ponder the unanswered questions of the world that are somehow relating to the hobby. Questions are many times open ended and up to interpretation. Feel free to post your thoughts in as much or as little detail as you’d like.
Helpful Considerations may or may not help some people focus their answer, these are blurred to not bother those who have their own ideas.
Early on in my collecting journey I had 7 surprise bunnies from a pet rabbit. This forum helped me through that process: https://www.rabbitsonline.net/
No this isn’t some elaborate pfm joke, I legitimately had 7 baby bunnies and had no clue how to raise them!
I’ve been on helpful forums, chiefest of which must undoubtedly be Drummerworld by virtue of a single man, Andy Crosby, co-owner of the greatest drum company to ever exist, Guru drums. I essentially got an education from him. One of the finest men ever put on this earth.
Talkbass is another one. A gentleman named Jason Desalvo who used to be a partner at Fodera Guitars would host these endlessly long Q&A threads, brimming with valuable information. Then there was the guy behind Kalium Strings, another fountain of knowledge. And there was just a lot of great guys who knew what the fuck they were talking about over there.
Not sure if anyone here is also a cruise addict but RoyalCaribbeanBlog is such a cool place, while they dont have an @smpratte they have someone named Matt Hochberg that does a similar job, and does it pretty well.
Before I collected Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards again, I was collecting twisty puzzles and was active on the TwistyPuzzles forum.
Definitely a helpful forum, to both new collectors who got questions; discussing solves of hard newly released puzzles (or made available for 3D printing); mods of existing puzzles into new puzzles; etc.
Here is my collection thread, in case anyone is curious. All these puzzles are still in their moving boxes since I started living on my own… On the plus-side, I now use the cabinets my TP collection was in for my non-TCG Seviper collection.
Various planted aquarium and cichlid forums. Was and still am interested in eventually having several planted tanks and a cichlid setup in an eventual basement. Lol. No space in the current house situation, despite having a detached garage that’s been converted into an office and card room. I’ve had 10 or so tanks in different sizes over the years and the aquascaping approach of someone like Takashi Amano is still what I’m most into. Oh, and dwarf shrimp are the funniest creatures. They just float around constantly grazing and breed like rabbits.
