Yes, if snob means it comes with an attitude of "I'm better than you because I have X amount to spend on a diamond because that's the only proposal stone, because it means he loves me more than your SO, and it means I have money and status, and I will belittle your alternative choice if it's not a diamond." I have a problem when someone makes an end-all-be-all, high and mighty, blanket statement like that without delving deeper into why others might make a different choice.

On the other hand, if only diamonds will do it for you, and if you state you have 5 figures plus to spend on a stone/ring, or have spent the equivalent of a luxury car on a ring, and you're not demeaning anyone, I also have no problem with that. You may be technically be a "diamond snob" but blessedly without the attitude, and you're not enforcing or lording your choice over everyone who doesn't happen to agree with you.

I call my DH a beer snob. He doesn't like the taste of mass produced beer and only buys micro-brews. But when we have parties, he buys boh kinds so everyone has a choice. When we attend parties, he'll bring both micro-brews and the Buds, Coors, Heinekens, etc. He doesn't preach why he is right, why his beer is best to our beer drinking friends. He just likes his choice and respects the choices of others. I'm okay with that kind of "snob".

I will agree that the amount of money and the figures thrown about on PS is not the norm and average. Most people can't relate to having a large amount of liquid cash to spend, much less on diamonds. However, I don't think any less of them for having it and spending it on a diamond. Maybe they worked hard for it. Maybe their $40,0000 diamond is proportional spending to their income as our $1500 moissys are to our income. Maybe some of them are perfectly wonderful people.

I always tell my kids that there will always be someone with more money than you and less money than you. It's neither here nor there. It just it is.

PS is a diamond board. Diamonds are luxury purchases, and people who can afford luxuries usually have money. The board also has its rules, which you know full well what they are before you join. I say change the channel if you don't like what you're watching. And thank goodness for the BTD boards where we are embracing all kinds of sparkle and gemstones, man made and natural! What we buy and spend is a personal choice and matter of personal priority, no wrong or right on either side of the diamond/sim debate.

That said, I prefer here to anywhere else! And I prefer my sims and moissys to diamonds - even if I win the mega millions lottery.

I don't think there is anything wrong at all with buying or wanting a diamond. I just don't like when those people feel the need to look down upon others who make a different decision, that's all!

I lurk PS from time to time to see the pictures (I technically could join, as I have 'enough' diamond jewelry to *belong* LOL) but then I find posts that say things like 'OMG I saw a girl who didn't have a DIAMOND in her engagement ring, and I felt SOOOOOO bad for her!!'

I am not interested in Amora Gem for myself really, but I sure AM interested to see how it shakes up all those people who also insist diamonds are so much better as they come in truly colourless stones, the ones who SWEAR they can tell the difference based on colour (since diamonds apparently don't come in colours, lol) and now can't rely on the moissanite round cut either to "give it away".