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notlogicalnotlogical Posts: 2,235 ✭
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I had a idea about how YN's can be identified on the forums so people know they are YN's when they reply to them.

You know under your icon how it says stuff like "Member", "Collector", "Master Collector", "Veteran", and stuff like that? How about if YN's have "YN" or "Young Numismatist" under their icon?


Just a idea I had this morning. Who would I suggest it to?

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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Excellent idea, Samuel. PM your suggestion to CarolJ.

    One possible pitfall is that it might reopen the argument about who is a YN, how do we define them, etc. Some forum members have surprisingly strong feelings about this point.
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  • notlogicalnotlogical Posts: 2,235 ✭


    << <i>
    One possible pitfall is that it might reopen the argument about who is a YN, how do we define them, etc. Some forum members have surprisingly strong feelings about this point. >>




    Thanks! image

    I guess CU could set a age they think YN's should be and then everybody would have to live with it.

    I also thought, when a YN grows up and gets to the age CU sets, they have to tell CU and then they get the "Member", "Veteran", "Master Collector", titles depending on the number of their posts like everyone else does.

    What Mr. Spock would say about numismatics...
    image... "Fascinating, but not logical"

    "Live long and prosper"

    My "How I Started" columns
  • holeinone1972holeinone1972 Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭
    One thing is for sure at my local coin club, anyone under 60 is a YN.

    I wish I was a casket salesman, instead of a carpet salesman. image

    I do like your idea, but it may be hard to police.
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  • AmericanCopperAmericanCopper Posts: 396
    Great idea Samuel...but I have to agree with RYK...defining who is a YN could prove to be troublesome for a few. I think you might want to consider bumping every post on the board with TTT, BUMP, I AGREE WITH YOU icons, a WOW!, I didn't know that, +1 or any of the other numberous ways some folks bump their post counts with inane comments. When you get to 10,000 posts, you can choose your own title...if you start now, you could do it by Friday! image
    Oh boy...this could be a bad thing.........image
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,884 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If a YN wants to advertise the fact that he's a YN, he can put something in his sig line to that effect.

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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey, Samuel - you could just do like a bunch of so-called adults have done... Pump up your post count on the test forum to 10K plus, and choose your own title image

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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,748 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>If a YN wants to advertise the fact that he's a YN, he can put something in his sig line to that effect. >>




    I agree it should be an individual decision. We should all be aware that this is not an appropriate place for bad language and behavior that would be considered offensive for a large number of the general population. It could actually backfire to identify younger or otherwise more impressionable or sensitive individuals.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    I do not believe that we should identify the YN. This only serves to

    highlite them for wierdoes that might float thru the Forum. Those of us

    who have been around a while, know who the young uns are.
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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭


    << <i>One thing is for sure at my local coin club, anyone under 60 is a YN.

    I wish I was a casket salesman, instead of a carpet salesman. image

    imageimageimageimage
    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."



    - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I do not believe that we should identify the YN. This only serves to

    highlite them for wierdoes that might float thru the Forum. Those of us

    who have been around a while, know who the young uns are. >>




    I have to agree with Bear on this. Samuel, you are thinking in the right lines, and in a good way, but those of us that are older and coarser know that there are some that would love to just bash on people, or worse, and think that having a YN plastered on you would be like a bullseye for them.

    Better to just be who you are, not worry about labels, and let people figure it out (or not).

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  • BRdudeBRdude Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭
    what about us ON'simageimage
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  • beartracks42beartracks42 Posts: 2,834 ✭
    Samuel,

    I don't know the answer to your question. There are pros and cons.

    I posted to your thread to tell you that I read my Centinel last night(just got home from Florida) and really enjoyed your article regarding the "Cheerios" Sacs and Lincolns. I must admit that I did not know very much about them.

    Congrats on your fine article.image


    Gary
    Gary
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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>what about us ON'simageimage >>



    Or us RON's!
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭
    Could I get "good lookin' old man" put under my name???image

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