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Is Sword Forum International Dead?

by Caleb
(Vancouver)

QUESTION: I'm just curious, do people still go/post there? I haven't for years...and I was going to make a new account, but the security checks have gone up & it really annoyed me so i didn't. Where to people go (besides here) to get educated nowadays?

Caleb

ANSWER: Hi Caleb,

SFI has been pretty quiet for the last 6-12 months, which is pretty unfortunate... I used to post there from time to time but don't these days - I still drop by every week or so just to see what, if anything, is being discussed, but it really has become a shadow of its former self...

Even though I have had quite a few run ins with some of the people there, and no doubt have a few people who really don't like what I am doing here - it is very sad to see it in such a sorry state...

I guess that apart from SBG, people either visit Bladeforum and Bugei. Would be nice to see SFI back to its glory days, but I am not sure how or if it is going to happen...

Cheers,

- Paul

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Is Sword Forum International Dead?

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Feb 22, 2012

Pretending to be Academic NEW
by: Anonymous

Sword forum is no better than the worst gun and knife forums out there let me tell you something I learned a couple years ago. the moderators are hypocrites on there own forum. a high ranking moderator who left because he was fed up with other moderators told me that they are all bs and power hungry and was disgusted with them all. from what you say this sounds true.and to the person about adrian ko being a christian yes he is crazy but thats who plays god there.

Sep 23, 2010

Sword Forum = Attitude Forums
by: Anonymous

I joined SFI years ago and got the same Elitist/Gate Keeping garbage when asking very earnest questions. This is what happens when you treat your members like dirt ... you turn into dirt and blow away. Couldn't have happened to a nicer forum.

Aug 15, 2010

I have just been treated horribly on SFI...
by: Anonymous

Nice to know I'm not alone, kind of. I am a blacksmith trying to sell my swords, so I go there, study the place, then join, I post just like *everyone* else, and behave like a nice guy, and then, I was attacked by a petty infantile individual, who had been there longer than I was, who obviously had no idea what he was talking about when it came to making swords, when he criticized mine. Anyway after defending myself against him, I contacted a moderator, telling the mod that he should get onto the user who was harassing me.... get this;
The moderator contacts me back, sort of half- making it out like it was my fault in some ways!
It couldn't have possibly been!... all I did was post a single post, trying to sell something, on the buying/selling forum then I was attacked by a critic, in a very petty, condescending manner. Man, I had no idea SFI would have this kind of behavior on it before I joined... looks like it's nothing different than so many other forums I've been to. I just wish I had known that before I joined. It didn't seem like it would be like that *at all* before I joined. It seems like it's an elitist gated community, where the only things that matter, are the things that mean nothing:
Post count, and how long you've been a member of the %^&*$%^ place...

Aug 04, 2010

SFI...Sad Kingdom
by: Markus 1812

If you are tired of the arrogance of SFI, you should check out Vikingsword.com. That's where Phillip Tom, Jean Binck and others hang out these days.

..and as far as sword collecting not being Christian? Come on, this is a flame, right??

Apr 09, 2010

adrian ko peaceful?
by: Anonymous

does anyone know about adrian ko being a hardcore christian? why is he running a website about swords and other weapons? i thought he was christian. i think there is something backwards about saying how great these killing things are and being religious.

Aug 24, 2009

Dude that place sucks!
by: Jerry Farret

Its over for Sword forum. Alot of people have been tired of that place for a long time. And it shows just how much it sucks. the Moderators don't do anything anymore. That guy Khorasani is the only one who does interesting stuff (publishes books, did a dissertation blasting sword Forum), but he isnt doing anything at all anymore. Angus Trim makes crap and sells it as treasure. Dead wood is more alive than that place! Yeah, I sound just like the people who posted here already but what can I say, something must be right if everyone is saying the same things.

Aug 17, 2009

its dead buddy
by: Anonymous

yep its dead. look at it now. very few forums are really working anymore. the front page with those articles hasnt been updated for years. losers are moderators but pretend to be the gatekeepers of the industry. theyre all pathetic losers. trash bins have better content. some moderators dont even contribute anymore they just use the forums to advertise their crap. that place is as alive as adrian kos angelic.org scary ass website.

May 13, 2009

junk place
by: Anonymous

defintiely should not see sfi get back to its glory days, its a crap place, nothing worth talking about when crap run the show. nothing good about it.

Apr 10, 2009

rotten from its inside
by: Anonymous

the problem is inside out. adrian ko listens to all the wrong people and makes stupid choices. he listens to his pyros which is what he calls the sword makers there. he is more like a stupid kid than a responsible adult. angus trim runs the show on the moderator forum. everyone is afraid to say anything there or is a friend of his. from what i hear he controls adrian ko. adrian ko let in some academics as moderators and they have never done anything to help that place. the other comments here are right, good moderators were lost not just the men from the chinese forum. idiots and pundits are in charge and there is no responsibility from the moderators to fix it. about the guy from the meia forum yeah, he only writes things that are about him and his work and thats fine and fine but, it looks like he only cares about that, it looks like hes using that forum to boost himself, to hell with the forum. sword forum sucks anymore and other forums are better than it now. some things are so rotten that they will rot no matter how much is still good.

Apr 08, 2009

bad forum place
by: Anonymous

hello, you shouldnt feel sorry, the sword forum int. is getting what it deserve, that is my experience.people not do not like being told what do to by people in charge who shouldnt be in charge.the chinese forum is dead.good people have left, it all is poor place.

Apr 01, 2009

SFI Not Likely to Recover: Dying Forum
by: Anonymous

SFI has gone downhill since Scott Rodell and Philip Tom were kicked out. Some new moderators were brought into the "MEIA" forum after that but they have not done anything there to help at all, so whoever made that decision to take them in really screwed up. I heard some moderators are no longer there because of the idiocy and sabotage of the people who run SFI behind the scenes. The guy kind of running the MEIA forum is about the only thing going for SFI and he doesn't do much there but post about his publications that are in non-English publications so that doesn't help much. Even the articles on the front page have not changed. Why they don't get him or someone more qualified to write something for that space is telling of the lack of interest in it. It doesn't take a genius to see that the place is falling apart.

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