ChrisSilver

A Change to the Ranks
Looking at the curvature of the rank progression chart, ideally the points needed for some higher rank tiers need to be increased again (e.g. Veteran and Grand Master levels) so that the time between progression through each rank lines up, the higher up the higher ranks you go the longer time it is supposed to take to then progress onto the next highest one. However despite some small changes/increases that are ideally needed to the points required, I have decided to keep the rank points required for each level fixed at the levels which we had set last time.

In other rank news though:

Avid NBS members, please do take a seat before reading the next paragraph. 🪑 Please also do continue to read through the entire post below as it explains some of the reasoning behind this.  

In short: The NBS topic will be excluded from rank points and ranks will be recounted. It will still be possible to earn reputation points from posts in this section though.

The reason is because TSF is a precious metals forum. And whilst I have allowed this topic to remain under the conditions set out, TSF is foremost a precious metals forum and I believe rank points should be earned for posting positive and helpful precious metals related posts and topics. TSF must remain professional to attract the highest amount of industry representatives and dealers to our community and our main focus and hobby/investment that connects us all here is of course precious metals.

Regrettably I will also exclude the non PM section from earning rank points from fear that this section could be abused due to the change above. The non PM section was originally created for members to share information about their other hobbies, non PM antiques, politics and economics and other interests members may have. And whilst this is still the case there was one topic (the NBS) which ended up on a different path and had been sectioned.

We understand that some may not like these changes, specifically those who post a lot in the NBS topic and have gained higher ranks because of their posts within this topic. Please however remember that TSF is a precious metals forum, and likely if you are an avid poster across all of the forum and not just in the NBS topic your rank will reflect this. There were a lot of members who fed back via private message their suggestion for the rank system to be based on precious metals content only, and their reasoning makes sense.

New members to TSF may be confused by this ranking system and believe that those members with higher ranks have contributed more precious metals content when in reality they have been joking around in the NBS topic.

For the majority this should not affect your rank in relation to other members as the majority of members who post in the NBS topic also happen to be the most active on the forum in general and also contribute a lot of precious metals related topics and posts and help other members, so these members will naturally gain the higher ranks anyway. Many thanks to all these members who post a lot of precious metals related content as well

Please also note that you will still earn reputation points for your topics and posts shared in the non PM section and NBS topic. Which we believe is a fair compromise. 

This new way of counting points towards rank will mean that it is fairer across the board, members who contribute a lot of high quality precious metals content and help other members out but who do not post much or at all in the NBS and non PM section of the forum will have a similar rank level to other members who post a lot of high quality precious metals content and post in the NBS topic too. The system is based on the quality and amount of precious metals content that is added to to The Silver Forum - the world’s precious metals forum.

We hope that members understand the reasons for this change. We also hope now that we will not need to adjust the ranks system again in the future.

Thank you to all the members who post helpful and informative precious metals content.  This process may take a few days as some time consuming adjustments need to be made within the admin area. 

Please also do see our latest large promotional draw which we have put up here:
 
 

A Change to the Ranks
Looking at the curvature of the rank progression chart, ideally the points needed for some higher rank tiers need to be increased again (e.g. Veteran and Grand Master levels) so that the time between progression through each rank lines up, the higher up the higher ranks you go the longer time it is supposed to take to then progress onto the next highest one. However despite some small changes/increases that are ideally needed to the points required, I have decided to keep the rank points required for each level fixed at the levels which we had set last time.

In other rank news though:

Avid NBS members, please do take a seat before reading the next paragraph. 🪑 Please also do continue to read through the entire post below as it explains some of the reasoning behind this.  

In short: The NBS topic will be excluded from rank points and ranks will be recounted. It will still be possible to earn reputation points from posts in this section though.

The reason is because TSF is a precious metals forum. And whilst I have allowed this topic to remain under the conditions set out, TSF is foremost a precious metals forum and I believe rank points should be earned for posting positive and helpful precious metals related posts and topics. TSF must remain professional to attract the highest amount of industry representatives and dealers to our community and our main focus and hobby/investment that connects us all here is of course precious metals.

Regrettably I will also exclude the non PM section from earning rank points from fear that this section could be abused due to the change above. The non PM section was originally created for members to share information about their other hobbies, non PM antiques, politics and economics and other interests members may have. And whilst this is still the case there was one topic (the NBS) which ended up on a different path and had been sectioned.

We understand that some may not like these changes, specifically those who post a lot in the NBS topic and have gained higher ranks because of their posts within this topic. Please however remember that TSF is a precious metals forum, and likely if you are an avid poster across all of the forum and not just in the NBS topic your rank will reflect this. There were a lot of members who fed back via private message their suggestion for the rank system to be based on precious metals content only, and their reasoning makes sense.

New members to TSF may be confused by this ranking system and believe that those members with higher ranks have contributed more precious metals content when in reality they have been joking around in the NBS topic.

For the majority this should not affect your rank in relation to other members as the majority of members who post in the NBS topic also happen to be the most active on the forum in general and also contribute a lot of precious metals related topics and posts and help other members, so these members will naturally gain the higher ranks anyway. Many thanks to all these members who post a lot of precious metals related content as well

Please also note that you will still earn reputation points for your topics and posts shared in the non PM section and NBS topic. Which we believe is a fair compromise. 

This new way of counting points towards rank will mean that it is fairer across the board, members who contribute a lot of high quality precious metals content and help other members out but who do not post much or at all in the NBS and non PM section of the forum will have a similar rank level to other members who post a lot of high quality precious metals content and post in the NBS topic too. The system is based on the quality and amount of precious metals content that is added to to The Silver Forum - the world’s precious metals forum.

We hope that members understand the reasons for this change. We also hope now that we will not need to adjust the ranks system again in the future.

Thank you to all the members who post helpful and informative precious metals content.  This process may take a few days as some time consuming adjustments need to be made within the admin area. 

Please also do see our latest large promotional draw which we have put up here:
 
 

Although this is precious metals it is being sold as a piece of jewellery and I have have therefore moved it to the non PM trade section of the forum, as the item contains other value beyond just the gold content. This is also to fall in line with forum rules. The non PM trade section is the best place to list jewellery and luxury watches for sale.  
 

View this giveaway *Entry available to All Members* WIN all of these precious metals items
This is a FREE prize draw to bring awareness of The Silver Forum and to promote The Silver Forum, please let anyone who is interested in precious metals know about this draw to help spread the word of The Silver Forum. The larger the forum grows the more great and larger prize draws we can do, as well as more items being available in the trade sections and more knowledge that is shared between helpful members  this year we have planned large promotional prize draws every 3 months or so, with other prize draws planned in-between. 

At the time of writing TSF has over 20,500 registered members, of which over 600 are Premium Members, over 66,000 forum topics, and over 870,000 forum posts. With around 20,000 new posts per month it is estimated by December 2023 or possibly January 2024, we could have over 1 million forum posts. TSF is the largest independent English speaking precious metals forum in the world, with members across many different countries and continents. If you aren't a TSF member already you can register a FREE account here. 

Since the last promotional draw in April 2023 (around 3 months ago) TSF has gained over 1000 new member registrations, 3000 new forum topics, over 50,000 new forum posts, and over 100 new Premium Members. 

We are planning several other large promotional Prize Draws throughout 2023 so stick around. 

*Entry available to All Members* WIN all of these precious metals items. One lucky winner will win all prizes. 

Please see timer for Prize Draw end date. 

FREE worldwide shipping to the winner!
This draw is open to all forum member groups. Including all Free Standard Members, Premium Members, Business Accounts, Sponsors, Moderators  (excluding the Administrator, he never wins anything 😄) If you would like to upgrade to Premium Membership and support The Silver Forum to grow, please click here to upgrade your membership. Many thanks to those who already have Premium Membership and an extra special thank you to those who choose a Platinum level Premium Membership which greatly helps TSF.

Just press the button to take a ticket to enter. You will first need to be signed in, if you do not have an account yet you can register for a FREE account here: https://thesilverforum.com/register/

Join The Silver Forum Today for FREE, then join this draw!



The next pictures show the items in this draw. Brand new from APMEX, in hand and ready to dispatch to the winner:

 





Photos above are for illustrations purposes and some photos show both sides of the same item. The exact items in this prize draw which will be won by one lucky winner are:

1x 1g PAMP Lady Fortuna Gold Bar
1x 2023 PCGS MS70 Firststrike ASE
1x 2oz 9 Fine Mint cast round
1x 1oz Buffalo Found 
The prize(s) for this promotional draw have been purchased by The Silver Forum and are dispatched by @Lr103 on behalf of TSF. After the winner(s) has/have been selected they will have 30 days to provide their shipping details to @Lr103 should they not make contact with their shipping details within this time, the prize draw may be put up again and a new winner selected. 1 entry per person. Creating multiple accounts to abuse this limit will result in the permanent ban of your account and all future accounts associated with you, The Silver Forum has a strict policy in regards to multiple accounts. The winner needs to be a Member in good standing both at the time of taking a ticket, and the time the winner is drawn. The winner is responsible for any applicable import taxes or duties, this information is also shown in the terms and conditions that you need to accept when taking a ticket. Item is dispatched from the USA. 

Join The Silver Forum Today for FREE, then join this draw!
Existing members please sign in to your existing account and take a ticket. 

This draw is FREE to enter all Free Standard Members, Premium Members, Business Accounts, Sponsors, Moderators (excludes Administrator). Those who would like to support TSF to grow can purchase Premium Membership and to help support The Silver Forum, many thanks to those who support TSF with a paid Premium membership. Not only does your paid membership go a long way towards the maintenance costs of the forum, a portion of the membership goes directly into paid advertising and marketing, meaning the more members we have the even bigger prize draws we can do  To help support The silver Forum to grow and to get all of the other great benefits listed in each package;

Please click here to view our Premium Membership packages and to buy to support The Silver Forum
Submitter ChrisSilver Expiration Date 30 days and 6 hours Submitted 09/07/23 Category Prize Draws open to ALL member groups  

A Change to the Ranks
Looking at the curvature of the rank progression chart, ideally the points needed for some higher rank tiers need to be increased again (e.g. Veteran and Grand Master levels) so that the time between progression through each rank lines up, the higher up the higher ranks you go the longer time it is supposed to take to then progress onto the next highest one. However despite some small changes/increases that are ideally needed to the points required, I have decided to keep the rank points required for each level fixed at the levels which we had set last time.

In other rank news though:

Avid NBS members, please do take a seat before reading the next paragraph. 🪑 Please also do continue to read through the entire post below as it explains some of the reasoning behind this.  

In short: The NBS topic will be excluded from rank points and ranks will be recounted. It will still be possible to earn reputation points from posts in this section though.

The reason is because TSF is a precious metals forum. And whilst I have allowed this topic to remain under the conditions set out, TSF is foremost a precious metals forum and I believe rank points should be earned for posting positive and helpful precious metals related posts and topics. TSF must remain professional to attract the highest amount of industry representatives and dealers to our community and our main focus and hobby/investment that connects us all here is of course precious metals.

Regrettably I will also exclude the non PM section from earning rank points from fear that this section could be abused due to the change above. The non PM section was originally created for members to share information about their other hobbies, non PM antiques, politics and economics and other interests members may have. And whilst this is still the case there was one topic (the NBS) which ended up on a different path and had been sectioned.

We understand that some may not like these changes, specifically those who post a lot in the NBS topic and have gained higher ranks because of their posts within this topic. Please however remember that TSF is a precious metals forum, and likely if you are an avid poster across all of the forum and not just in the NBS topic your rank will reflect this. There were a lot of members who fed back via private message their suggestion for the rank system to be based on precious metals content only, and their reasoning makes sense.

New members to TSF may be confused by this ranking system and believe that those members with higher ranks have contributed more precious metals content when in reality they have been joking around in the NBS topic.

For the majority this should not affect your rank in relation to other members as the majority of members who post in the NBS topic also happen to be the most active on the forum in general and also contribute a lot of precious metals related topics and posts and help other members, so these members will naturally gain the higher ranks anyway. Many thanks to all these members who post a lot of precious metals related content as well

Please also note that you will still earn reputation points for your topics and posts shared in the non PM section and NBS topic. Which we believe is a fair compromise. 

This new way of counting points towards rank will mean that it is fairer across the board, members who contribute a lot of high quality precious metals content and help other members out but who do not post much or at all in the NBS and non PM section of the forum will have a similar rank level to other members who post a lot of high quality precious metals content and post in the NBS topic too. The system is based on the quality and amount of precious metals content that is added to to The Silver Forum - the world’s precious metals forum.

We hope that members understand the reasons for this change. We also hope now that we will not need to adjust the ranks system again in the future.

Thank you to all the members who post helpful and informative precious metals content.  This process may take a few days as some time consuming adjustments need to be made within the admin area. 

Please also do see our latest large promotional draw which we have put up here:
 
 

A Change to the Ranks
Looking at the curvature of the rank progression chart, ideally the points needed for some higher rank tiers need to be increased again (e.g. Veteran and Grand Master levels) so that the time between progression through each rank lines up, the higher up the higher ranks you go the longer time it is supposed to take to then progress onto the next highest one. However despite some small changes/increases that are ideally needed to the points required, I have decided to keep the rank points required for each level fixed at the levels which we had set last time.

In other rank news though:

Avid NBS members, please do take a seat before reading the next paragraph. 🪑 Please also do continue to read through the entire post below as it explains some of the reasoning behind this.  

In short: The NBS topic will be excluded from rank points and ranks will be recounted. It will still be possible to earn reputation points from posts in this section though.

The reason is because TSF is a precious metals forum. And whilst I have allowed this topic to remain under the conditions set out, TSF is foremost a precious metals forum and I believe rank points should be earned for posting positive and helpful precious metals related posts and topics. TSF must remain professional to attract the highest amount of industry representatives and dealers to our community and our main focus and hobby/investment that connects us all here is of course precious metals.

Regrettably I will also exclude the non PM section from earning rank points from fear that this section could be abused due to the change above. The non PM section was originally created for members to share information about their other hobbies, non PM antiques, politics and economics and other interests members may have. And whilst this is still the case there was one topic (the NBS) which ended up on a different path and had been sectioned.

We understand that some may not like these changes, specifically those who post a lot in the NBS topic and have gained higher ranks because of their posts within this topic. Please however remember that TSF is a precious metals forum, and likely if you are an avid poster across all of the forum and not just in the NBS topic your rank will reflect this. There were a lot of members who fed back via private message their suggestion for the rank system to be based on precious metals content only, and their reasoning makes sense.

New members to TSF may be confused by this ranking system and believe that those members with higher ranks have contributed more precious metals content when in reality they have been joking around in the NBS topic.

For the majority this should not affect your rank in relation to other members as the majority of members who post in the NBS topic also happen to be the most active on the forum in general and also contribute a lot of precious metals related topics and posts and help other members, so these members will naturally gain the higher ranks anyway. Many thanks to all these members who post a lot of precious metals related content as well

Please also note that you will still earn reputation points for your topics and posts shared in the non PM section and NBS topic. Which we believe is a fair compromise. 

This new way of counting points towards rank will mean that it is fairer across the board, members who contribute a lot of high quality precious metals content and help other members out but who do not post much or at all in the NBS and non PM section of the forum will have a similar rank level to other members who post a lot of high quality precious metals content and post in the NBS topic too. The system is based on the quality and amount of precious metals content that is added to to The Silver Forum - the world’s precious metals forum.

We hope that members understand the reasons for this change. We also hope now that we will not need to adjust the ranks system again in the future.

Thank you to all the members who post helpful and informative precious metals content.  This process may take a few days as some time consuming adjustments need to be made within the admin area. 

Please also do see our latest large promotional draw which we have put up here:
 
 

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

View this giveaway *Entry available to All Members* WIN all of these precious metals items
This is a FREE prize draw to bring awareness of The Silver Forum and to promote The Silver Forum, please let anyone who is interested in precious metals know about this draw to help spread the word of The Silver Forum. The larger the forum grows the more great and larger prize draws we can do, as well as more items being available in the trade sections and more knowledge that is shared between helpful members  this year we have planned large promotional prize draws every 3 months or so, with other prize draws planned in-between. 

At the time of writing TSF has over 20,500 registered members, of which over 600 are Premium Members, over 66,000 forum topics, and over 870,000 forum posts. With around 20,000 new posts per month it is estimated by December 2023 or possibly January 2024, we could have over 1 million forum posts. TSF is the largest independent English speaking precious metals forum in the world, with members across many different countries and continents. If you aren't a TSF member already you can register a FREE account here. 

Since the last promotional draw in April 2023 (around 3 months ago) TSF has gained over 1000 new member registrations, 3000 new forum topics, over 50,000 new forum posts, and over 100 new Premium Members. 

We are planning several other large promotional Prize Draws throughout 2023 so stick around. 

*Entry available to All Members* WIN all of these precious metals items. One lucky winner will win all prizes. 

Please see timer for Prize Draw end date. 

FREE worldwide shipping to the winner!
This draw is open to all forum member groups. Including all Free Standard Members, Premium Members, Business Accounts, Sponsors, Moderators  (excluding the Administrator, he never wins anything 😄) If you would like to upgrade to Premium Membership and support The Silver Forum to grow, please click here to upgrade your membership. Many thanks to those who already have Premium Membership and an extra special thank you to those who choose a Platinum level Premium Membership which greatly helps TSF.

Just press the button to take a ticket to enter. You will first need to be signed in, if you do not have an account yet you can register for a FREE account here: https://thesilverforum.com/register/

Join The Silver Forum Today for FREE, then join this draw!



The next pictures show the items in this draw. Brand new from APMEX, in hand and ready to dispatch to the winner:

 





Photos above are for illustrations purposes and some photos show both sides of the same item. The exact items in this prize draw which will be won by one lucky winner are:

1x 1g PAMP Lady Fortuna Gold Bar
1x 2023 PCGS MS70 Firststrike ASE
1x 2oz 9 Fine Mint cast round
1x 1oz Buffalo Found 
The prize(s) for this promotional draw have been purchased by The Silver Forum and are dispatched by @Lr103 on behalf of TSF. After the winner(s) has/have been selected they will have 30 days to provide their shipping details to @Lr103 should they not make contact with their shipping details within this time, the prize draw may be put up again and a new winner selected. 1 entry per person. Creating multiple accounts to abuse this limit will result in the permanent ban of your account and all future accounts associated with you, The Silver Forum has a strict policy in regards to multiple accounts. The winner needs to be a Member in good standing both at the time of taking a ticket, and the time the winner is drawn. The winner is responsible for any applicable import taxes or duties, this information is also shown in the terms and conditions that you need to accept when taking a ticket. Item is dispatched from the USA. 

Join The Silver Forum Today for FREE, then join this draw!
Existing members please sign in to your existing account and take a ticket. 

This draw is FREE to enter all Free Standard Members, Premium Members, Business Accounts, Sponsors, Moderators (excludes Administrator). Those who would like to support TSF to grow can purchase Premium Membership and to help support The Silver Forum, many thanks to those who support TSF with a paid Premium membership. Not only does your paid membership go a long way towards the maintenance costs of the forum, a portion of the membership goes directly into paid advertising and marketing, meaning the more members we have the even bigger prize draws we can do  To help support The silver Forum to grow and to get all of the other great benefits listed in each package;

Please click here to view our Premium Membership packages and to buy to support The Silver Forum
Submitter ChrisSilver Expiration Date 30 days and 6 hours Submitted 09/07/23 Category Prize Draws open to ALL member groups  

A Change to the Ranks
Looking at the curvature of the rank progression chart, ideally the points needed for some higher rank tiers need to be increased again (e.g. Veteran and Grand Master levels) so that the time between progression through each rank lines up, the higher up the higher ranks you go the longer time it is supposed to take to then progress onto the next highest one. However despite some small changes/increases that are ideally needed to the points required, I have decided to keep the rank points required for each level fixed at the levels which we had set last time.

In other rank news though:

Avid NBS members, please do take a seat before reading the next paragraph. 🪑 Please also do continue to read through the entire post below as it explains some of the reasoning behind this.  

In short: The NBS topic will be excluded from rank points and ranks will be recounted. It will still be possible to earn reputation points from posts in this section though.

The reason is because TSF is a precious metals forum. And whilst I have allowed this topic to remain under the conditions set out, TSF is foremost a precious metals forum and I believe rank points should be earned for posting positive and helpful precious metals related posts and topics. TSF must remain professional to attract the highest amount of industry representatives and dealers to our community and our main focus and hobby/investment that connects us all here is of course precious metals.

Regrettably I will also exclude the non PM section from earning rank points from fear that this section could be abused due to the change above. The non PM section was originally created for members to share information about their other hobbies, non PM antiques, politics and economics and other interests members may have. And whilst this is still the case there was one topic (the NBS) which ended up on a different path and had been sectioned.

We understand that some may not like these changes, specifically those who post a lot in the NBS topic and have gained higher ranks because of their posts within this topic. Please however remember that TSF is a precious metals forum, and likely if you are an avid poster across all of the forum and not just in the NBS topic your rank will reflect this. There were a lot of members who fed back via private message their suggestion for the rank system to be based on precious metals content only, and their reasoning makes sense.

New members to TSF may be confused by this ranking system and believe that those members with higher ranks have contributed more precious metals content when in reality they have been joking around in the NBS topic.

For the majority this should not affect your rank in relation to other members as the majority of members who post in the NBS topic also happen to be the most active on the forum in general and also contribute a lot of precious metals related topics and posts and help other members, so these members will naturally gain the higher ranks anyway. Many thanks to all these members who post a lot of precious metals related content as well

Please also note that you will still earn reputation points for your topics and posts shared in the non PM section and NBS topic. Which we believe is a fair compromise. 

This new way of counting points towards rank will mean that it is fairer across the board, members who contribute a lot of high quality precious metals content and help other members out but who do not post much or at all in the NBS and non PM section of the forum will have a similar rank level to other members who post a lot of high quality precious metals content and post in the NBS topic too. The system is based on the quality and amount of precious metals content that is added to to The Silver Forum - the world’s precious metals forum.

We hope that members understand the reasons for this change. We also hope now that we will not need to adjust the ranks system again in the future.

Thank you to all the members who post helpful and informative precious metals content.  This process may take a few days as some time consuming adjustments need to be made within the admin area. 

Please also do see our latest large promotional draw which we have put up here:
 
 

A Change to the Ranks
Looking at the curvature of the rank progression chart, ideally the points needed for some higher rank tiers need to be increased again (e.g. Veteran and Grand Master levels) so that the time between progression through each rank lines up, the higher up the higher ranks you go the longer time it is supposed to take to then progress onto the next highest one. However despite some small changes/increases that are ideally needed to the points required, I have decided to keep the rank points required for each level fixed at the levels which we had set last time.

In other rank news though:

Avid NBS members, please do take a seat before reading the next paragraph. 🪑 Please also do continue to read through the entire post below as it explains some of the reasoning behind this.  

In short: The NBS topic will be excluded from rank points and ranks will be recounted. It will still be possible to earn reputation points from posts in this section though.

The reason is because TSF is a precious metals forum. And whilst I have allowed this topic to remain under the conditions set out, TSF is foremost a precious metals forum and I believe rank points should be earned for posting positive and helpful precious metals related posts and topics. TSF must remain professional to attract the highest amount of industry representatives and dealers to our community and our main focus and hobby/investment that connects us all here is of course precious metals.

Regrettably I will also exclude the non PM section from earning rank points from fear that this section could be abused due to the change above. The non PM section was originally created for members to share information about their other hobbies, non PM antiques, politics and economics and other interests members may have. And whilst this is still the case there was one topic (the NBS) which ended up on a different path and had been sectioned.

We understand that some may not like these changes, specifically those who post a lot in the NBS topic and have gained higher ranks because of their posts within this topic. Please however remember that TSF is a precious metals forum, and likely if you are an avid poster across all of the forum and not just in the NBS topic your rank will reflect this. There were a lot of members who fed back via private message their suggestion for the rank system to be based on precious metals content only, and their reasoning makes sense.

New members to TSF may be confused by this ranking system and believe that those members with higher ranks have contributed more precious metals content when in reality they have been joking around in the NBS topic.

For the majority this should not affect your rank in relation to other members as the majority of members who post in the NBS topic also happen to be the most active on the forum in general and also contribute a lot of precious metals related topics and posts and help other members, so these members will naturally gain the higher ranks anyway. Many thanks to all these members who post a lot of precious metals related content as well

Please also note that you will still earn reputation points for your topics and posts shared in the non PM section and NBS topic. Which we believe is a fair compromise. 

This new way of counting points towards rank will mean that it is fairer across the board, members who contribute a lot of high quality precious metals content and help other members out but who do not post much or at all in the NBS and non PM section of the forum will have a similar rank level to other members who post a lot of high quality precious metals content and post in the NBS topic too. The system is based on the quality and amount of precious metals content that is added to to The Silver Forum - the world’s precious metals forum.

We hope that members understand the reasons for this change. We also hope now that we will not need to adjust the ranks system again in the future.

Thank you to all the members who post helpful and informative precious metals content.  This process may take a few days as some time consuming adjustments need to be made within the admin area. 

Please also do see our latest large promotional draw which we have put up here:
 
 

View this giveaway *Entry available to All Members* WIN all of these precious metals items
This is a FREE prize draw to bring awareness of The Silver Forum and to promote The Silver Forum, please let anyone who is interested in precious metals know about this draw to help spread the word of The Silver Forum. The larger the forum grows the more great and larger prize draws we can do, as well as more items being available in the trade sections and more knowledge that is shared between helpful members  this year we have planned large promotional prize draws every 3 months or so, with other prize draws planned in-between. 

At the time of writing TSF has over 20,500 registered members, of which over 600 are Premium Members, over 66,000 forum topics, and over 870,000 forum posts. With around 20,000 new posts per month it is estimated by December 2023 or possibly January 2024, we could have over 1 million forum posts. TSF is the largest independent English speaking precious metals forum in the world, with members across many different countries and continents. If you aren't a TSF member already you can register a FREE account here. 

Since the last promotional draw in April 2023 (around 3 months ago) TSF has gained over 1000 new member registrations, 3000 new forum topics, over 50,000 new forum posts, and over 100 new Premium Members. 

We are planning several other large promotional Prize Draws throughout 2023 so stick around. 

*Entry available to All Members* WIN all of these precious metals items. One lucky winner will win all prizes. 

Please see timer for Prize Draw end date. 

FREE worldwide shipping to the winner!
This draw is open to all forum member groups. Including all Free Standard Members, Premium Members, Business Accounts, Sponsors, Moderators  (excluding the Administrator, he never wins anything 😄) If you would like to upgrade to Premium Membership and support The Silver Forum to grow, please click here to upgrade your membership. Many thanks to those who already have Premium Membership and an extra special thank you to those who choose a Platinum level Premium Membership which greatly helps TSF.

Just press the button to take a ticket to enter. You will first need to be signed in, if you do not have an account yet you can register for a FREE account here: https://thesilverforum.com/register/

Join The Silver Forum Today for FREE, then join this draw!



The next pictures show the items in this draw. Brand new from APMEX, in hand and ready to dispatch to the winner:

 





Photos above are for illustrations purposes and some photos show both sides of the same item. The exact items in this prize draw which will be won by one lucky winner are:

1x 1g PAMP Lady Fortuna Gold Bar
1x 2023 PCGS MS70 Firststrike ASE
1x 2oz 9 Fine Mint cast round
1x 1oz Buffalo Found 
The prize(s) for this promotional draw have been purchased by The Silver Forum and are dispatched by @Lr103 on behalf of TSF. After the winner(s) has/have been selected they will have 30 days to provide their shipping details to @Lr103 should they not make contact with their shipping details within this time, the prize draw may be put up again and a new winner selected. 1 entry per person. Creating multiple accounts to abuse this limit will result in the permanent ban of your account and all future accounts associated with you, The Silver Forum has a strict policy in regards to multiple accounts. The winner needs to be a Member in good standing both at the time of taking a ticket, and the time the winner is drawn. The winner is responsible for any applicable import taxes or duties, this information is also shown in the terms and conditions that you need to accept when taking a ticket. Item is dispatched from the USA. 

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Existing members please sign in to your existing account and take a ticket. 

This draw is FREE to enter all Free Standard Members, Premium Members, Business Accounts, Sponsors, Moderators (excludes Administrator). Those who would like to support TSF to grow can purchase Premium Membership and to help support The Silver Forum, many thanks to those who support TSF with a paid Premium membership. Not only does your paid membership go a long way towards the maintenance costs of the forum, a portion of the membership goes directly into paid advertising and marketing, meaning the more members we have the even bigger prize draws we can do  To help support The silver Forum to grow and to get all of the other great benefits listed in each package;

Please click here to view our Premium Membership packages and to buy to support The Silver Forum
Submitter ChrisSilver Expiration Date 30 days and 6 hours Submitted 09/07/23 Category Prize Draws open to ALL member groups  

A Change to the Ranks
Looking at the curvature of the rank progression chart, ideally the points needed for some higher rank tiers need to be increased again (e.g. Veteran and Grand Master levels) so that the time between progression through each rank lines up, the higher up the higher ranks you go the longer time it is supposed to take to then progress onto the next highest one. However despite some small changes/increases that are ideally needed to the points required, I have decided to keep the rank points required for each level fixed at the levels which we had set last time.

In other rank news though:

Avid NBS members, please do take a seat before reading the next paragraph. 🪑 Please also do continue to read through the entire post below as it explains some of the reasoning behind this.  

In short: The NBS topic will be excluded from rank points and ranks will be recounted. It will still be possible to earn reputation points from posts in this section though.

The reason is because TSF is a precious metals forum. And whilst I have allowed this topic to remain under the conditions set out, TSF is foremost a precious metals forum and I believe rank points should be earned for posting positive and helpful precious metals related posts and topics. TSF must remain professional to attract the highest amount of industry representatives and dealers to our community and our main focus and hobby/investment that connects us all here is of course precious metals.

Regrettably I will also exclude the non PM section from earning rank points from fear that this section could be abused due to the change above. The non PM section was originally created for members to share information about their other hobbies, non PM antiques, politics and economics and other interests members may have. And whilst this is still the case there was one topic (the NBS) which ended up on a different path and had been sectioned.

We understand that some may not like these changes, specifically those who post a lot in the NBS topic and have gained higher ranks because of their posts within this topic. Please however remember that TSF is a precious metals forum, and likely if you are an avid poster across all of the forum and not just in the NBS topic your rank will reflect this. There were a lot of members who fed back via private message their suggestion for the rank system to be based on precious metals content only, and their reasoning makes sense.

New members to TSF may be confused by this ranking system and believe that those members with higher ranks have contributed more precious metals content when in reality they have been joking around in the NBS topic.

For the majority this should not affect your rank in relation to other members as the majority of members who post in the NBS topic also happen to be the most active on the forum in general and also contribute a lot of precious metals related topics and posts and help other members, so these members will naturally gain the higher ranks anyway. Many thanks to all these members who post a lot of precious metals related content as well

Please also note that you will still earn reputation points for your topics and posts shared in the non PM section and NBS topic. Which we believe is a fair compromise. 

This new way of counting points towards rank will mean that it is fairer across the board, members who contribute a lot of high quality precious metals content and help other members out but who do not post much or at all in the NBS and non PM section of the forum will have a similar rank level to other members who post a lot of high quality precious metals content and post in the NBS topic too. The system is based on the quality and amount of precious metals content that is added to to The Silver Forum - the world’s precious metals forum.

We hope that members understand the reasons for this change. We also hope now that we will not need to adjust the ranks system again in the future.

Thank you to all the members who post helpful and informative precious metals content.  This process may take a few days as some time consuming adjustments need to be made within the admin area. 

Please also do see our latest large promotional draw which we have put up here:
 
 

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
Many thanks to Premium Members who help to support and maintain TSF. For those who would like to support TSF please do consider purchasing Premium Membership as this helps greatly in maintaining and growing TSF. The larger TSF gets the more situations need to be investigated in order to help protect members as best as we can. To upgrade your account to Premium Membership to support TSF in exchange for all of the listed benefits including seeing new trade listings 3 days before standard members, please see the store here. An extra special thank to you to Platinum group Premium Members.

A Change to the Ranks
Looking at the curvature of the rank progression chart, ideally the points needed for some higher rank tiers need to be increased again (e.g. Veteran and Grand Master levels) so that the time between progression through each rank lines up, the higher up the higher ranks you go the longer time it is supposed to take to then progress onto the next highest one. However despite some small changes/increases that are ideally needed to the points required, I have decided to keep the rank points required for each level fixed at the levels which we had set last time.

In other rank news though:

Avid NBS members, please do take a seat before reading the next paragraph. 🪑 Please also do continue to read through the entire post below as it explains some of the reasoning behind this.  

In short: The NBS topic will be excluded from rank points and ranks will be recounted. It will still be possible to earn reputation points from posts in this section though.

The reason is because TSF is a precious metals forum. And whilst I have allowed this topic to remain under the conditions set out, TSF is foremost a precious metals forum and I believe rank points should be earned for posting positive and helpful precious metals related posts and topics. TSF must remain professional to attract the highest amount of industry representatives and dealers to our community and our main focus and hobby/investment that connects us all here is of course precious metals.

Regrettably I will also exclude the non PM section from earning rank points from fear that this section could be abused due to the change above. The non PM section was originally created for members to share information about their other hobbies, non PM antiques, politics and economics and other interests members may have. And whilst this is still the case there was one topic (the NBS) which ended up on a different path and had been sectioned.

We understand that some may not like these changes, specifically those who post a lot in the NBS topic and have gained higher ranks because of their posts within this topic. Please however remember that TSF is a precious metals forum, and likely if you are an avid poster across all of the forum and not just in the NBS topic your rank will reflect this. There were a lot of members who fed back via private message their suggestion for the rank system to be based on precious metals content only, and their reasoning makes sense.

New members to TSF may be confused by this ranking system and believe that those members with higher ranks have contributed more precious metals content when in reality they have been joking around in the NBS topic.

For the majority this should not affect your rank in relation to other members as the majority of members who post in the NBS topic also happen to be the most active on the forum in general and also contribute a lot of precious metals related topics and posts and help other members, so these members will naturally gain the higher ranks anyway. Many thanks to all these members who post a lot of precious metals related content as well

Please also note that you will still earn reputation points for your topics and posts shared in the non PM section and NBS topic. Which we believe is a fair compromise. 

This new way of counting points towards rank will mean that it is fairer across the board, members who contribute a lot of high quality precious metals content and help other members out but who do not post much or at all in the NBS and non PM section of the forum will have a similar rank level to other members who post a lot of high quality precious metals content and post in the NBS topic too. The system is based on the quality and amount of precious metals content that is added to to The Silver Forum - the world’s precious metals forum.

We hope that members understand the reasons for this change. We also hope now that we will not need to adjust the ranks system again in the future.

Thank you to all the members who post helpful and informative precious metals content.  This process may take a few days as some time consuming adjustments need to be made within the admin area. 

Please also do see our latest large promotional draw which we have put up here:
 
 

A Change to the Ranks
Looking at the curvature of the rank progression chart, ideally the points needed for some higher rank tiers need to be increased again (e.g. Veteran and Grand Master levels) so that the time between progression through each rank lines up, the higher up the higher ranks you go the longer time it is supposed to take to then progress onto the next highest one. However despite some small changes/increases that are ideally needed to the points required, I have decided to keep the rank points required for each level fixed at the levels which we had set last time.

In other rank news though:

Avid NBS members, please do take a seat before reading the next paragraph. 🪑 Please also do continue to read through the entire post below as it explains some of the reasoning behind this.  

In short: The NBS topic will be excluded from rank points and ranks will be recounted. It will still be possible to earn reputation points from posts in this section though.

The reason is because TSF is a precious metals forum. And whilst I have allowed this topic to remain under the conditions set out, TSF is foremost a precious metals forum and I believe rank points should be earned for posting positive and helpful precious metals related posts and topics. TSF must remain professional to attract the highest amount of industry representatives and dealers to our community and our main focus and hobby/investment that connects us all here is of course precious metals.

Regrettably I will also exclude the non PM section from earning rank points from fear that this section could be abused due to the change above. The non PM section was originally created for members to share information about their other hobbies, non PM antiques, politics and economics and other interests members may have. And whilst this is still the case there was one topic (the NBS) which ended up on a different path and had been sectioned.

We understand that some may not like these changes, specifically those who post a lot in the NBS topic and have gained higher ranks because of their posts within this topic. Please however remember that TSF is a precious metals forum, and likely if you are an avid poster across all of the forum and not just in the NBS topic your rank will reflect this. There were a lot of members who fed back via private message their suggestion for the rank system to be based on precious metals content only, and their reasoning makes sense.

New members to TSF may be confused by this ranking system and believe that those members with higher ranks have contributed more precious metals content when in reality they have been joking around in the NBS topic.

For the majority this should not affect your rank in relation to other members as the majority of members who post in the NBS topic also happen to be the most active on the forum in general and also contribute a lot of precious metals related topics and posts and help other members, so these members will naturally gain the higher ranks anyway. Many thanks to all these members who post a lot of precious metals related content as well

Please also note that you will still earn reputation points for your topics and posts shared in the non PM section and NBS topic. Which we believe is a fair compromise. 

This new way of counting points towards rank will mean that it is fairer across the board, members who contribute a lot of high quality precious metals content and help other members out but who do not post much or at all in the NBS and non PM section of the forum will have a similar rank level to other members who post a lot of high quality precious metals content and post in the NBS topic too. The system is based on the quality and amount of precious metals content that is added to to The Silver Forum - the world’s precious metals forum.

We hope that members understand the reasons for this change. We also hope now that we will not need to adjust the ranks system again in the future.

Thank you to all the members who post helpful and informative precious metals content.  This process may take a few days as some time consuming adjustments need to be made within the admin area. 

Please also do see our latest large promotional draw which we have put up here:
 
 

A Change to the Ranks
Looking at the curvature of the rank progression chart, ideally the points needed for some higher rank tiers need to be increased again (e.g. Veteran and Grand Master levels) so that the time between progression through each rank lines up, the higher up the higher ranks you go the longer time it is supposed to take to then progress onto the next highest one. However despite some small changes/increases that are ideally needed to the points required, I have decided to keep the rank points required for each level fixed at the levels which we had set last time.

In other rank news though:

Avid NBS members, please do take a seat before reading the next paragraph. 🪑 Please also do continue to read through the entire post below as it explains some of the reasoning behind this.  

In short: The NBS topic will be excluded from rank points and ranks will be recounted. It will still be possible to earn reputation points from posts in this section though.

The reason is because TSF is a precious metals forum. And whilst I have allowed this topic to remain under the conditions set out, TSF is foremost a precious metals forum and I believe rank points should be earned for posting positive and helpful precious metals related posts and topics. TSF must remain professional to attract the highest amount of industry representatives and dealers to our community and our main focus and hobby/investment that connects us all here is of course precious metals.

Regrettably I will also exclude the non PM section from earning rank points from fear that this section could be abused due to the change above. The non PM section was originally created for members to share information about their other hobbies, non PM antiques, politics and economics and other interests members may have. And whilst this is still the case there was one topic (the NBS) which ended up on a different path and had been sectioned.

We understand that some may not like these changes, specifically those who post a lot in the NBS topic and have gained higher ranks because of their posts within this topic. Please however remember that TSF is a precious metals forum, and likely if you are an avid poster across all of the forum and not just in the NBS topic your rank will reflect this. There were a lot of members who fed back via private message their suggestion for the rank system to be based on precious metals content only, and their reasoning makes sense.

New members to TSF may be confused by this ranking system and believe that those members with higher ranks have contributed more precious metals content when in reality they have been joking around in the NBS topic.

For the majority this should not affect your rank in relation to other members as the majority of members who post in the NBS topic also happen to be the most active on the forum in general and also contribute a lot of precious metals related topics and posts and help other members, so these members will naturally gain the higher ranks anyway. Many thanks to all these members who post a lot of precious metals related content as well

Please also note that you will still earn reputation points for your topics and posts shared in the non PM section and NBS topic. Which we believe is a fair compromise. 

This new way of counting points towards rank will mean that it is fairer across the board, members who contribute a lot of high quality precious metals content and help other members out but who do not post much or at all in the NBS and non PM section of the forum will have a similar rank level to other members who post a lot of high quality precious metals content and post in the NBS topic too. The system is based on the quality and amount of precious metals content that is added to to The Silver Forum - the world’s precious metals forum.

We hope that members understand the reasons for this change. We also hope now that we will not need to adjust the ranks system again in the future.

Thank you to all the members who post helpful and informative precious metals content.  This process may take a few days as some time consuming adjustments need to be made within the admin area. 

Please also do see our latest large promotional draw which we have put up here:
 
 

A Change to the Ranks
Looking at the curvature of the rank progression chart, ideally the points needed for some higher rank tiers need to be increased again (e.g. Veteran and Grand Master levels) so that the time between progression through each rank lines up, the higher up the higher ranks you go the longer time it is supposed to take to then progress onto the next highest one. However despite some small changes/increases that are ideally needed to the points required, I have decided to keep the rank points required for each level fixed at the levels which we had set last time.

In other rank news though:

Avid NBS members, please do take a seat before reading the next paragraph. 🪑 Please also do continue to read through the entire post below as it explains some of the reasoning behind this.  

In short: The NBS topic will be excluded from rank points and ranks will be recounted. It will still be possible to earn reputation points from posts in this section though.

The reason is because TSF is a precious metals forum. And whilst I have allowed this topic to remain under the conditions set out, TSF is foremost a precious metals forum and I believe rank points should be earned for posting positive and helpful precious metals related posts and topics. TSF must remain professional to attract the highest amount of industry representatives and dealers to our community and our main focus and hobby/investment that connects us all here is of course precious metals.

Regrettably I will also exclude the non PM section from earning rank points from fear that this section could be abused due to the change above. The non PM section was originally created for members to share information about their other hobbies, non PM antiques, politics and economics and other interests members may have. And whilst this is still the case there was one topic (the NBS) which ended up on a different path and had been sectioned.

We understand that some may not like these changes, specifically those who post a lot in the NBS topic and have gained higher ranks because of their posts within this topic. Please however remember that TSF is a precious metals forum, and likely if you are an avid poster across all of the forum and not just in the NBS topic your rank will reflect this. There were a lot of members who fed back via private message their suggestion for the rank system to be based on precious metals content only, and their reasoning makes sense.

New members to TSF may be confused by this ranking system and believe that those members with higher ranks have contributed more precious metals content when in reality they have been joking around in the NBS topic.

For the majority this should not affect your rank in relation to other members as the majority of members who post in the NBS topic also happen to be the most active on the forum in general and also contribute a lot of precious metals related topics and posts and help other members, so these members will naturally gain the higher ranks anyway. Many thanks to all these members who post a lot of precious metals related content as well

Please also note that you will still earn reputation points for your topics and posts shared in the non PM section and NBS topic. Which we believe is a fair compromise. 

This new way of counting points towards rank will mean that it is fairer across the board, members who contribute a lot of high quality precious metals content and help other members out but who do not post much or at all in the NBS and non PM section of the forum will have a similar rank level to other members who post a lot of high quality precious metals content and post in the NBS topic too. The system is based on the quality and amount of precious metals content that is added to to The Silver Forum - the world’s precious metals forum.

We hope that members understand the reasons for this change. We also hope now that we will not need to adjust the ranks system again in the future.

Thank you to all the members who post helpful and informative precious metals content.  This process may take a few days as some time consuming adjustments need to be made within the admin area. 

Please also do see our latest large promotional draw which we have put up here:
 
 

A Change to the Ranks
Looking at the curvature of the rank progression chart, ideally the points needed for some higher rank tiers need to be increased again (e.g. Veteran and Grand Master levels) so that the time between progression through each rank lines up, the higher up the higher ranks you go the longer time it is supposed to take to then progress onto the next highest one. However despite some small changes/increases that are ideally needed to the points required, I have decided to keep the rank points required for each level fixed at the levels which we had set last time.

In other rank news though:

Avid NBS members, please do take a seat before reading the next paragraph. 🪑 Please also do continue to read through the entire post below as it explains some of the reasoning behind this.  

In short: The NBS topic will be excluded from rank points and ranks will be recounted. It will still be possible to earn reputation points from posts in this section though.

The reason is because TSF is a precious metals forum. And whilst I have allowed this topic to remain under the conditions set out, TSF is foremost a precious metals forum and I believe rank points should be earned for posting positive and helpful precious metals related posts and topics. TSF must remain professional to attract the highest amount of industry representatives and dealers to our community and our main focus and hobby/investment that connects us all here is of course precious metals.

Regrettably I will also exclude the non PM section from earning rank points from fear that this section could be abused due to the change above. The non PM section was originally created for members to share information about their other hobbies, non PM antiques, politics and economics and other interests members may have. And whilst this is still the case there was one topic (the NBS) which ended up on a different path and had been sectioned.

We understand that some may not like these changes, specifically those who post a lot in the NBS topic and have gained higher ranks because of their posts within this topic. Please however remember that TSF is a precious metals forum, and likely if you are an avid poster across all of the forum and not just in the NBS topic your rank will reflect this. There were a lot of members who fed back via private message their suggestion for the rank system to be based on precious metals content only, and their reasoning makes sense.

New members to TSF may be confused by this ranking system and believe that those members with higher ranks have contributed more precious metals content when in reality they have been joking around in the NBS topic.

For the majority this should not affect your rank in relation to other members as the majority of members who post in the NBS topic also happen to be the most active on the forum in general and also contribute a lot of precious metals related topics and posts and help other members, so these members will naturally gain the higher ranks anyway. Many thanks to all these members who post a lot of precious metals related content as well

Please also note that you will still earn reputation points for your topics and posts shared in the non PM section and NBS topic. Which we believe is a fair compromise. 

This new way of counting points towards rank will mean that it is fairer across the board, members who contribute a lot of high quality precious metals content and help other members out but who do not post much or at all in the NBS and non PM section of the forum will have a similar rank level to other members who post a lot of high quality precious metals content and post in the NBS topic too. The system is based on the quality and amount of precious metals content that is added to to The Silver Forum - the world’s precious metals forum.

We hope that members understand the reasons for this change. We also hope now that we will not need to adjust the ranks system again in the future.

Thank you to all the members who post helpful and informative precious metals content.  This process may take a few days as some time consuming adjustments need to be made within the admin area. 

Please also do see our latest large promotional draw which we have put up here:
 
 

A Change to the Ranks
Looking at the curvature of the rank progression chart, ideally the points needed for some higher rank tiers need to be increased again (e.g. Veteran and Grand Master levels) so that the time between progression through each rank lines up, the higher up the higher ranks you go the longer time it is supposed to take to then progress onto the next highest one. However despite some small changes/increases that are ideally needed to the points required, I have decided to keep the rank points required for each level fixed at the levels which we had set last time.

In other rank news though:

Avid NBS members, please do take a seat before reading the next paragraph. 🪑 Please also do continue to read through the entire post below as it explains some of the reasoning behind this.  

In short: The NBS topic will be excluded from rank points and ranks will be recounted. It will still be possible to earn reputation points from posts in this section though.

The reason is because TSF is a precious metals forum. And whilst I have allowed this topic to remain under the conditions set out, TSF is foremost a precious metals forum and I believe rank points should be earned for posting positive and helpful precious metals related posts and topics. TSF must remain professional to attract the highest amount of industry representatives and dealers to our community and our main focus and hobby/investment that connects us all here is of course precious metals.

Regrettably I will also exclude the non PM section from earning rank points from fear that this section could be abused due to the change above. The non PM section was originally created for members to share information about their other hobbies, non PM antiques, politics and economics and other interests members may have. And whilst this is still the case there was one topic (the NBS) which ended up on a different path and had been sectioned.

We understand that some may not like these changes, specifically those who post a lot in the NBS topic and have gained higher ranks because of their posts within this topic. Please however remember that TSF is a precious metals forum, and likely if you are an avid poster across all of the forum and not just in the NBS topic your rank will reflect this. There were a lot of members who fed back via private message their suggestion for the rank system to be based on precious metals content only, and their reasoning makes sense.

New members to TSF may be confused by this ranking system and believe that those members with higher ranks have contributed more precious metals content when in reality they have been joking around in the NBS topic.

For the majority this should not affect your rank in relation to other members as the majority of members who post in the NBS topic also happen to be the most active on the forum in general and also contribute a lot of precious metals related topics and posts and help other members, so these members will naturally gain the higher ranks anyway. Many thanks to all these members who post a lot of precious metals related content as well

Please also note that you will still earn reputation points for your topics and posts shared in the non PM section and NBS topic. Which we believe is a fair compromise. 

This new way of counting points towards rank will mean that it is fairer across the board, members who contribute a lot of high quality precious metals content and help other members out but who do not post much or at all in the NBS and non PM section of the forum will have a similar rank level to other members who post a lot of high quality precious metals content and post in the NBS topic too. The system is based on the quality and amount of precious metals content that is added to to The Silver Forum - the world’s precious metals forum.

We hope that members understand the reasons for this change. We also hope now that we will not need to adjust the ranks system again in the future.

Thank you to all the members who post helpful and informative precious metals content.  This process may take a few days as some time consuming adjustments need to be made within the admin area. 

Please also do see our latest large promotional draw which we have put up here:
 
 

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