Hm. Well I doubt i'll post here very often. I mean, the site is great, wonderful refrences and stuff but the forums just seem ick.
First of all it's way too popular for my liking. It's hard to keep track of who's who. This isn't a bad thing but I like being able to identify people and friends.
Secondly the moderation. It seems WAY too tight here. If people want to discuss stuff and one person makes a single mistake it gets locked and the others miss out. I wanted to post about that new fake magmar. Not that I believe it's real or anything. I couldn't find a single topic about it because I presume they've all been locked and/or deleted.
Thirdly the rules. "Do not make similar topics or post information that already exists". Members aren't Psycic. If there's a topic on the third page of a forum that they can't see surely they aren't expected to know it exists? Sure if it's on the same page then okay, but most forums have like 5 stickiesi n them so topics easily get pushed off the page. "Do not attempt to mod yourself". Fair enough, if something is out of hand then it should be reported, but if someone just makes one simple mistake you can't even advise them?
Anyways, there's my thoughts on the matter. Try not to be offended, because that wasn't the intention.