I'm Finished Here; Goodbye
LeeG
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Most of you won't care but this is my last post here. I've only been posting here a few weeks and am completly turned off by all the "Bashing" I see here. It's harder every day to find useful information about coins and coin colecting. I wish all the "Bashers" well as they continue their journey through life as negative people.
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LeeG, I encourage you to stay. I predict that the forum will get back to coin collecting topics very soon.
Perhaps Carol should start a "bashing" forum so that the U.S. Coin Forum won't be polluted with trash talk.
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I love this place,
LeeG,you should stay.
Brian
There are still many positive attributes to participating here, and I'd like to see you stay.
All summer long I`ve been tring to push for a " Rockem Sockem Robot " Forum. When a heated arguement isn`t going anywhere, they would be transported to the Rockem Sockem Robot Forum to duke it out. The first person that knocks down the other twice wins the arguement whether they where right or not.
In other words, don't read the threads you don't like.
<< <i>You're taking it waaaaay too seriously. >>
Maybe, maybe not. For me I decided to get out of coins and collect currency. The last few days aren't the only factor. Through all the bashing, I actually learned something about the AT/NT stuff...that's what ruined it for me.
Jerry
UncleWiggly, who said,
I decided to get out of coins and collect currency
hoo boy! watch out for those bleached/ironed/trimmed/repaired etc etc notes!
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
There are a whole lot of postive and encouraging forum participants, and it's worth sticking around to discover them and form relationships with them.
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
You can't take most of this seriously. There are a LOT of indifferent opinions in this forum. There are many perspectives to any view from the forum members as we are all spread far and wide. Take for instance, some of us here like to do metal detecting. There is a definate need to CLEAN some coins, but purists and dealers have different views on how it should be handled. If you find a coin in a clay area, you use one method if in a dense growth with a lot of decomposition, you have to use another.
Bashing is in fact another method of learning, just with different definitions on how something is done. There is a lot to learn here and even though a lot of folks don't see eye-to-eye but we all have one thing in common, our desire (or lust) of coins. Some use them for profit, others to collect. A collector doesn't have to think like a dealer and visa-versa. Take LordM for example, on his vest and hat are some of the more desirable coins that you could ever want.....but they have holes in them!!! To some, they are nothing more than melt now but to others (like me) they are a more affordable means of obtaining a coin that is out of wallets reach at the moment.
In regards to the latest heat, if you are a dealer of coins you WILL find the best manner of creating a profit. Some morals may be in question, but it's for the same goal.....if given the means to finish a registry set and you have but 1 or 2 coins to completion, you come across the opportunity to have a coin at a lesser cost (be it toned, an error, specific variety, or a freshly minted modern) and have a buyer for it. Would you hesitate to "do the deal"? Some here may and some may not. It's just a different means to an end. If the buyer has the money and desires a coin, who's to stop them from obtaining it however they can?
Anyway, time to get off the soapbox and back to work. I wish you the best regardless if you stay or go.
Hell, I don't need to exercise.....I get enough just pushing my luck.
bottom line, you need the forum more than the forum needs you; so it is with each of us. wise up and make better choices. you'll benefit by staying here more than by leaving and frankly, we won't miss you though we'll notice you if you remain...................probably.
but please, no begging for sympathy.
al h.
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
Why do people feel the need to make these inane announcements they're leaving?
<< <i>Why do people feel the need to make these inane announcements they're leaving? >>
Because they want others to convince them to stay?
Lurk for a while, the bashing comes and goes in spurts.
I just skip over then threads when they deteriorate.
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<< <i>Why do people feel the need to make these inane announcements they're leaving? >>
Because they want others to convince them to stay? >>
More bashing. Woo Hoo!!!
If you're looking for people to beg you to stay, well....maybe some will, however most will not.
As Brother Keets just said, this forum will go on with or without you, just the same as the world would should you die right now. The world/ this forum does not revolve around you, me or any particular ONE of us, but together we are one. You need thick skin to be a member of this club, my boy.
As they say, If you can't hang with the big dogs, keep your puppy dog ace on the porch. Good luck no matter what you decide but just remember this....ANYBODY CAN BE A QUITTER. Do you have what it takes to stick it out?
Boom's advice is very well taken. I was getting wrapped up in threads that were, in the end a waste f time for "me" to read. I come here to have fun, pass time and learn a little about coins. Those threads that are simply bash fests I either ignore or have fun with, but either way the choice is mine. These forums are very similar to the neighborhood pubs and taverns. Most of the time it is great conversation and great fun. Then every once in awhile someone spills a drink on someone and the fur flys. Pretty soon it is all back to normal. Don't give up so easily, there is too much great knowledge here to throw away over some moments of testosterone overdose.
What Carl W. and Boom said.....
And, Boom oughta know what he's talking 'bout, big time!
<< <i>Oh yeah, switch over to currency collecting. Its much safer there. No one doctors currency to make money.
I know you're right. But it's something I've wanted to do anyway.
Jerry
icecubes melt.
It happens.
JM
life and death decisions all day long at work and I find this to an interesting diversion from the rigors of work. Plus for a relative newby like me I have learned a lot about ebay and the coin industry in general. I'm just glad
I'm not the sucker buying a $7500 AT coin. Without this forum I would have never been aware of unscrupulous tactics which certain people employ. Perhaps it may be legal, but where I come from and the way I was raised it ain't moral or ethical. I hope these folks can sleep at night. I know I can the way I conduct myself professionally and as a person. Keep up the great work on this forum.
Bruce
wouldn't wanna b ya.
K S
I miss this guy already
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You have more to gain if you stay. But still do not let it hit you if you feel like you do.
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carl has the right idell.read the good ,pay no att. to the bad.
littlejohn
i learn to read & and not to write.
Dave
<< <i>Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
Dave >>
It's comments like this that prove that we have way too many morons posting here!
Try coming over the the darkside (world coins forum), no bashing just relaxed banter and warm feelings
Dr J
My omnicoin collection (or how my coin photography has progressed)
Finally, if a less confrontational forum is what you seek, the NGC boards also have some fine posters and excellent content, but the volume is quite a bit less (which is why it is known to some as "Sleepy Hollow".
Good luck, whatever you side to do.
P.S. I think that the "don't let the door hit you..." type comments are inappropriate.
But seriously you don't have to read everything and even if you do you only have to acknowledge about 5% of it! Look for the gems in the coal dust, they are there.
Dr J
My omnicoin collection (or how my coin photography has progressed)
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<< <i>Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
Dave >>
It's comments like this that prove that we have way too many morons posting here! >>
Hey I think if you would have been around here longer than a couple of months you would see a little Humor in Daves post. Also your Moron statement fits in very nicely.
Next time get it right though. Its Maroon instead of Moron. Of course on this one you probably do not have a clue either.
Ken
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1 Russ POTD!
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine
By the way, snakes ARE amphibians, are they not? Though ANACONDAS are so big, they may be considered mammals???? LOLOL SLAM!!!! What say about that LeeG? Gonna just let it go, or whine some more???????