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<< <i>I would like to see the one word replies and emoticon only replies discouraged. They contribute nothing. >>
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Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Just thinking about that great Tony Bennett version of "If I ruled the world"... You know 'Everyday would be the first day of spring'. In my case, every thread would... focus on the subject of the thread out of common courtesy with occasional witticisms and lapses of humor etc. Just my wish....
and Oh, my grandkids could read this board because presumably adults are fully capable of finding appropriate avenues for getting their yah yahs out. Mustn't forget the yah yahs...
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<< <i>MIKEKING asked me to inform the forum that he has been banned for reasons unknown to him. >>
AU58
Please try to find out what happened through PM to the mods. Don't keep pushing the issue and get yourself whacked also. People are getting whacked because of the push factor. The push factor started the whole mess to begin with.
<< <i>MIKEKING asked me to inform the forum that he has been banned for reasons unknown to him. >>
He knows precisely why he was banned. He posted a very obvious attack on PCGS right in this thread, which has since been deleted. This feigning innocence crap is tiresome.
Mike King's comments in this thread were reasonable, IMO. Not sure why he would be censured for them. Wish I had an archive so I could recall them exactly. Don
<< <i>MIKEKING asked me to inform the forum that he has been banned for reasons unknown to him. >>
He knows precisely why he was banned. He posted a very obvious attack on PCGS right in this thread, which has since been deleted. This feigning innocence crap is tiresome.
Russ, NCNE >>
and a bunch of the other HS that was in the thread was within the rules ? I still see many people that did not go by the rules still here.
<< <i><< MIKEKING asked me to inform the forum that he has been banned for reasons unknown to him. >>
He knows precisely why he was banned. He posted a very obvious attack on PCGS right in this thread, which has since been deleted. This feigning innocence crap is tiresome.
Russ, NCNE >>
and a bunch of the other HS that was in the thread was within the rules ? I still see many people that did not go by the rules still here.
Where is the common sense around here ?
Ken >>
That's a separate issue. I was simply pointing out that his claim that the reasons are unknown to him is bogus.
<< <i><< MIKEKING asked me to inform the forum that he has been banned for reasons unknown to him. >>
He knows precisely why he was banned. He posted a very obvious attack on PCGS right in this thread, which has since been deleted. This feigning innocence crap is tiresome.
Russ, NCNE >>
and a bunch of the other HS that was in the thread was within the rules ? I still see many people that did not go by the rules still here.
Where is the common sense around here ?
Ken >>
That's a separate issue. I was simply pointing out that his claim that the reasons are unknown to him is bogus.
Not a separate issue. The insanity should be good for all and not for a select few. HRH was clear I think and now the rules have been changed or so it seems. Maybe this place needs a cooling off period. It sure looks like people want to push the issue which in turn will wreck the whole place for everyone.
While I understand that these forums are PCGS property and PCGS has every right to do what they wish with them, I think that it is a bad idea for PCGS not to allow posts that are critical of them. I am sure that many, if not most, of the posters here are PCGS customers. PCGS should not just allow the critical comments of customers, they should do everything they can to seek out such comments so that they will be more responsive to the needs and wishes of those of us who keep them in business. In the old days I respected the way that PCGS allowed critical posts, it showed that they were secure with their position as the leading TPG and cared about what their customers thought. Now I wonder if there are problems that are not yet obvious to the public? I think PCGS is a great company and I hope that is not the case, but that is what seems to be suggested by such concern about negitive comments on what is after all nothing more than an internet chat board.
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<< <i>That's a separate issue. I was simply pointing out that his claim that the reasons are unknown to him is bogus.
Not a separate issue. The insanity should be good for all and not for a select few. >>
True, but still a separate issue. It gets old watching banned members at forums, (not just here), pretending to be innocent and clueless about the reasons when, in fact, they know damned well why.
<< <i>That's a separate issue. I was simply pointing out that his claim that the reasons are unknown to him is bogus.
Not a separate issue. The insanity should be good for all and not for a select few. >>
True, but still a separate issue. It gets old watching banned members at forums, (not just here), pretending to be innocent and clueless about the reasons when, in fact, they know DAMNED well why.
Russ, NCNE >>
RULE #2
2. No profanity...there are young numismatists that are on our boards. If you can't watch your language, you will be banned from the boards
<< <i> I know I was offended by the posts last night. Hope the writers are gone!
First, I was in the air last night and missed the fun. Somebody, please PM me the juicy details!
Second, I've seen many offensive things posted on these boards, yet I've never taken offense. Similarly, I've never been offended by the 7 and 10 pins when I bowled a split. It's all about your attitude, not theirs. >>
There was never any close to what went on last night. It was a melt down by three year olds.
PEACE! This is the first day of the rest of your life.
<< <i>As I said last night in a thread that I though would stay and not go poof.
Rules are a good thing- they give you a chance to understand. That said- I do not agree with the comparison made here that this board is similar to being invited to someones house for dinner and then bashing the host/hostess. For example--if you are invited to someone house for dinner AND they sell flowerpots in their den for 30 bucks a pop--you SHOULD have the ability to discuss the pro's AND CON'S about those flowerpots you are paying for-- if you see a flaw or problem on one of the 30 dollar flowerpots shouldn't you be able to talk about it???? Not bash but discuss???
I think that many here ARE over-reacting to a degree because they are not seperating the difference between strong constructive discussion and blatant outright bashing.
I will not, nor will I ever, call a lousy coin in any TPG plastic a beauty out of fear that the TPG company will ban me from speaking on their forum----nor would I expect them to, but by the same token- the discussion of the problem coin should be civilized and not a third grade mudslinging.
I will continue to post my thoughts and opinions on this board in what I consider a non-bashing way, but my opinions may include stating that a coin in a slab may be overgraded or in my opinion misgraded----let me add that I don't care whose plastic it is in. If I get banned for giving my opinions in a non-bashing way-OK. Likewise--If I get banned for bashing PCGS on their forum - then I deserve it--I did read the rules.
I hope these boards do remain open, but I also hope that if members are going to be banned that it is done for the right reasons and done fairly----Please do not let a chosen few have free sailing while others are on thin ice.
This is a coin forum I am a collector Works for me
Go poof you mine like puff the magic dragon!
edited for spelling... >>
PEACE! This is the first day of the rest of your life.
Are there any veterans here ? Military men/women ? Cops ? Business Owners ? Students ? Parents ? Ya'll must be laughing about those who carry on about the RULES and opinions of Management. The rules here are too easy to follow. Those who argue with the opinion of the management team are missing the boat. (actually, they're trying to CAPSIZE it )
Remember the wizard of oz ? THE OZ HAS SPOKEN ! It's pretty simple to understand those who want to CHALLENGE AUTHORITY are gonna get picked up by flying monkeys and hauled outta here. This place is awesome and the rules are fair.
Go ahead, bite that hand, but what purpose does it serve ?
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
<< <i>Who's posing as Don Taxay (4 posts above) or is he back with us? >>
"Call me a Taxay!"
"All right! You're a Taxay!!!!"
TDY
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
<< <i>Are there any veterans here ? Military men/women ? Cops ? Business Owners ? Students ? Parents ? Ya'll must be laughing about those who carry on about the RULES and opinions of Management. The rules here are too easy to follow. Those who argue with the opinion of the management team are missing the boat. (actually, they're trying to CAPSIZE it )
Remember the wizard of oz ? THE OZ HAS SPOKEN ! It's pretty simple to understand those who want to CHALLENGE AUTHORITY are gonna get picked up by flying monkeys and hauled outta here. This place is awesome and the rules are fair.
Go ahead, bite that hand, but what purpose does it serve ? >>
I'm telling you something. Flying Monkeys just aren't natural. They give me the creeps.
I'm glad the boards are staying. I have met a lot of nice people here. While I have been guilty from time to time of PCGS "bashing" I will promise to behave in the future. The loss of this forum would be missed.
Comments
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Really it's more like 300. Something like 200 have been deleted!
"The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD GOD Almighty."
<< <i>What we need around here is a good old fashioned Gold Buffalo thread.
09/07/2006
<< <i>What we need around here is a good old fashioned Gold Buffalo thread.
Please, No!!
<< <i>
<< <i>I would like to see the one word replies and emoticon only replies discouraged. They contribute nothing. >>
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Just wanted to put in my two cents.
<< <i>
<< <i>
<< <i>I would like to see the one word replies and emoticon only replies discouraged. They contribute nothing. >>
In my case, every thread would... focus on the subject of the thread out of common courtesy
with occasional witticisms and lapses of humor etc.
Just my wish....
and Oh, my grandkids could read this board because presumably adults are fully capable of finding appropriate avenues for getting their yah yahs out. Mustn't forget the yah yahs...
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
<< <i>MIKEKING asked me to inform the forum that he has been banned for reasons unknown to him. >>
AU58
Please try to find out what happened through PM to the mods. Don't keep pushing the issue and get yourself whacked also. People are getting whacked because of the push factor. The push factor started the whole mess to begin with.
Cheers.
Ken
AU58, as per last night, I guess they are cleaning out the bums, right??
<< <i>MIKEKING asked me to inform the forum that he has been banned for reasons unknown to him. >>
Good. The guy was a completel pain in the arse and we and this forum are better off without him.
AU58, as per last night, I guess they are cleaning out the bums, right??
<< <i>MIKEKING asked me to inform the forum that he has been banned for reasons unknown to him. >>
He knows precisely why he was banned. He posted a very obvious attack on PCGS right in this thread, which has since been deleted. This feigning innocence crap is tiresome.
Russ, NCNE
Don
<< <i>Mike King's comments in this thread were reasonable, IMO. >>
I guess you must have missed the last one.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>
<< <i>MIKEKING asked me to inform the forum that he has been banned for reasons unknown to him. >>
He knows precisely why he was banned. He posted a very obvious attack on PCGS right in this thread, which has since been deleted. This feigning innocence crap is tiresome.
Russ, NCNE >>
and a bunch of the other HS that was in the thread was within the rules ? I still see many people that did not go by the rules still here.
Where is the common sense around here ?
Ken
<< <i><< MIKEKING asked me to inform the forum that he has been banned for reasons unknown to him. >>
He knows precisely why he was banned. He posted a very obvious attack on PCGS right in this thread, which has since been deleted. This feigning innocence crap is tiresome.
Russ, NCNE >>
and a bunch of the other HS that was in the thread was within the rules ? I still see many people that did not go by the rules still here.
Where is the common sense around here ?
Ken >>
That's a separate issue. I was simply pointing out that his claim that the reasons are unknown to him is bogus.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>
<< <i><< MIKEKING asked me to inform the forum that he has been banned for reasons unknown to him. >>
He knows precisely why he was banned. He posted a very obvious attack on PCGS right in this thread, which has since been deleted. This feigning innocence crap is tiresome.
Russ, NCNE >>
and a bunch of the other HS that was in the thread was within the rules ? I still see many people that did not go by the rules still here.
Where is the common sense around here ?
Ken >>
That's a separate issue. I was simply pointing out that his claim that the reasons are unknown to him is bogus.
Not a separate issue. The insanity should be good for all and not for a select few. HRH was clear I think and now the rules have been changed or so it seems. Maybe this place needs a cooling off period. It sure looks like people want to push the issue which in turn will wreck the whole place for everyone.
Ken
Russ, NCNE >>
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<< <i>That's a separate issue. I was simply pointing out that his claim that the reasons are unknown to him is bogus.
Not a separate issue. The insanity should be good for all and not for a select few. >>
True, but still a separate issue. It gets old watching banned members at forums, (not just here), pretending to be innocent and clueless about the reasons when, in fact, they know damned well why.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>
<< <i>That's a separate issue. I was simply pointing out that his claim that the reasons are unknown to him is bogus.
Not a separate issue. The insanity should be good for all and not for a select few. >>
True, but still a separate issue. It gets old watching banned members at forums, (not just here), pretending to be innocent and clueless about the reasons when, in fact, they know DAMNED well why.
Russ, NCNE >>
RULE #2
2. No profanity...there are young numismatists that are on our boards. If you can't watch your language, you will be banned from the boards
<< <i>RULE #2
2. No profanity...there are young numismatists that are on our boards. If you can't watch your language, you will be banned from the boards >>
Damn is not one of the seven words considered profane. If it were, it would be filtered by the censor.
Russ, NCNE
Camelot
<< <i>I bid 32 responses. >>
Sold!
<< <i> I know I was offended by the posts last night. Hope the writers are gone!
First, I was in the air last night and missed the fun. Somebody, please PM me the juicy details!
Second, I've seen many offensive things posted on these boards, yet I've never taken offense. Similarly, I've never been offended by the 7 and 10 pins when I bowled a split. It's all about your attitude, not theirs. >>
There was never any close to what went on last night. It was a melt down by three year olds.
Fred, Las Vegas, NV
<< <i>As I said last night in a thread that I though would stay and not go poof.
Rules are a good thing- they give you a chance to understand.
That said-
I do not agree with the comparison made here that this board is similar to being invited to someones house for dinner and then bashing the host/hostess. For example--if you are invited to someone house for dinner AND they sell flowerpots in their den for 30 bucks a pop--you SHOULD have the ability to discuss the pro's AND CON'S about those flowerpots you are paying for-- if you see a flaw or problem on one of the 30 dollar flowerpots shouldn't you be able to talk about it???? Not bash but discuss???
I think that many here ARE over-reacting to a degree because they are not seperating the difference between strong constructive discussion and blatant outright bashing.
I will not, nor will I ever, call a lousy coin in any TPG plastic a beauty out of fear that the TPG company will ban me from speaking on their forum----nor would I expect them to, but by the same token- the discussion of the problem coin should be civilized and not a third grade mudslinging.
I will continue to post my thoughts and opinions on this board in what I consider a non-bashing way, but my opinions may include stating that a coin in a slab may be overgraded or in my opinion misgraded----let me add that I don't care whose plastic it is in. If I get banned for giving my opinions in a non-bashing way-OK. Likewise--If I get banned for bashing PCGS on their forum - then I deserve it--I did read the rules.
I hope these boards do remain open, but I also hope that if members are going to be banned that it is done for the right reasons and done fairly----Please do not let a chosen few have free sailing while others are on thin ice.
This is a coin forum
I am a collector
Works for me
Go poof you mine like puff the magic dragon!
edited for spelling... >>
Fred, Las Vegas, NV
<< <i>I previously advocated a 30 day suspension for 1st offense and a 60/90 day suspension for 2nd offenses.
I am hopeful that is still possible.
Anyone including PCGS can make mistakes.
I truly enjoyed conder101 and mark feld's presence here. They will be missed.
I truly expect that PCGS will realize that they made a mistake here and work things out.
Nothing wrong about admitting a mistake!
I make them all the time! Just ask my wife! >>
Fred, Las Vegas, NV
They bammed conder101?
<< <i>I truly enjoyed conder101
They bammed conder101? >>
Yes he is gone.
The rules here are too easy to follow. Those who argue with the opinion of the management team are missing the boat. (actually, they're trying to CAPSIZE it )
Remember the wizard of oz ? THE OZ HAS SPOKEN ! It's pretty simple to understand those who want to CHALLENGE AUTHORITY are gonna get picked up by flying monkeys and hauled outta here.
This place is awesome and the rules are fair.
Go ahead, bite that hand, but what purpose does it serve ?
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TDL
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These kinds of folks tend to ask questions. These questions
lead to discussion. These discussions then lead to hard truths.
This Forum lets management know what is going on in the real world,
outside the corporate cotton batton. Truth, distilled, pure and accurate
is the stuff that allows for wise bussiness decissions. To crush the process
turns the Forum into a stage for innocuous, vanilla drivel. This may produce
a sense of peaceful calm. However this is the calm of the sterile world
of the dead. It teaches nothing, feels nothing, learns nothing, benefits nothing
and in the end, must dissolve into nothing.
Camelot
Perfection cannot be attained when imperfections pollute.
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<< <i>Who's posing as Don Taxay (4 posts above) or is he back with us? >>
"Call me a Taxay!"
"All right! You're a Taxay!!!!"
TDY
<< <i>Are there any veterans here ? Military men/women ? Cops ? Business Owners ? Students ? Parents ? Ya'll must be laughing about those who carry on about the RULES and opinions of Management.
The rules here are too easy to follow. Those who argue with the opinion of the management team are missing the boat. (actually, they're trying to CAPSIZE it )
Remember the wizard of oz ? THE OZ HAS SPOKEN ! It's pretty simple to understand those who want to CHALLENGE AUTHORITY are gonna get picked up by flying monkeys and hauled outta here.
This place is awesome and the rules are fair.
Go ahead, bite that hand, but what purpose does it serve ? >>
I'm telling you something. Flying Monkeys just aren't natural. They give me the creeps.
Jerry
<< <i>Can't we all just get along?
TDL >>
I thought that was RGK?
Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1
And stop PCGS bashing !!
By the way - did you notice the 1852
1852/1 $20 Humbert Twenty Dollar PR65 PCGS. on Heritage ??
This IS about coins after all!
If memory serves, wasn't that the very first coin to crack the one million dollar barrier?
This coin collecting feller say`s " live free or die "."
<< <i>Condor was not banned--he left on his own. His decision--our loss. >>
Try logging on as him:
"Login Denied, you are not authorized to login to the forums."
He was bammed.
09/07/2006
Is this enough to get bammed?