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For those who missed Heather Boyd’s March 16th post regarding “OT and Rule Violating Posts”

MFeldMFeld Posts: 14,946 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I expect some negative reactions for bringing this up, however, this is what she posted:

“Hello All,

I know that current events have led to a lot of anxiety and people staying in, thus more activity on the forum. However, this does not excuse violations of the rules regarding off-topic and political posts which seem to be running rampant. While we have yet to issue any bans. We will be issuing 3-point warnings which will block violators from posting new discussions for a period of time.

This is a coin forum, and while information is important, this is not the correct medium for updates and discussions about the virus and these posts have been getting out of hand with political debate and even some racist comments. I ask that you all please assist me in keeping the peace.

Thank you, I wish you and your families good health.“

Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.

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  • GluggoGluggo Posts: 3,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thank you for Reposting it I missed it!

  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,071 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 21, 2020 12:49PM

    I suppose this is directed at me since you posted this 2 minutes after I posted my off topic post. Thank you for pointed that out to me, Mark. I guess my mind slipped a bit😐

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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I read it the first time around.

  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I read it first time around and I DO fully support it.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,292 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A good reminder. Some havea short memory

  • MFeldMFeld Posts: 14,946 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @crazyhounddog said:
    I suppose this is directed at me since you posted this 2 minutes after I posted my off topic post. Thank you for pointed that out to me, Mark. I guess my mind slipped a bit😐

    Joe, don’t give yourself so much credit - it was in response to a number of different threads/posts.😄 However, I admit that yours was the one which put me over the line.😉

    Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.

  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,115 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There goes Joe 'giving himself too much credit' tsk tsk

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,824 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Everyone is just getting a little stir crazy. Please excuse a few missteps.

  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,859 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Smudge said:
    Everyone is just getting a little stir crazy. Please excuse a few missteps.

    This, rules are meant to be broken and with things being what they are a little bending is not the worst thing.

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  • GluggoGluggo Posts: 3,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

    At least they give you 3 Strikes! ;)

  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,681 ✭✭✭✭✭

    is this thread 'US Coin Forum' related?

  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,859 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MFeld said:

    @coinbuf said:

    @Smudge said:
    Everyone is just getting a little stir crazy. Please excuse a few missteps.

    This, rules are meant to be broken and with things being what they are a little bending is not the worst thing.

    That’s up to Heather. But I think the often repeated expression “Rules are made/meant to be broken” is bologna. They are meant to be followed, which is why there are often penalties for not doing so.

    Bologna, now I'm hungry.

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,857 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This forum has the potential to be an amazing platform for sharing numismatic information. While there are significant challenges that we all have to confront individually and collectively, we need to respect the limitations of what is within the collector and numismatic scope of what our hosts contemplated. It is easy to discuss off topic subjects... And most of us have participated in such discussions (I acknowledge that I have). But we need to make a greater effort to live up to our capabilities as collectors/numismatist instead of rehashing subjects that can be addressed elsewhere.

    Seems there are many thought provoking images of coins and questions surrounding various areas of numismatic study that should attract far more interest. I am waiting for that to happen as are others.

    Take a moment to think of a numismatic question or just share an image of coin that you feel is significant that may inspire others.

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MFeld said:
    They are meant to be followed, which is why there are often penalties for not doing so.

    I agree.
    When I was racing ... Brake any rule on the race track and it could cost you big time.

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 21, 2020 3:03PM

    @MFeld said:

    @coinbuf said:

    @Smudge said:
    Everyone is just getting a little stir crazy. Please excuse a few missteps.

    This, rules are meant to be broken and with things being what they are a little bending is not the worst thing.

    That’s up to Heather. But I think the often repeated expression “Rules are made/meant to be broken” is bologna. They are meant to be followed, which is why there are often penalties for not doing so.

    Are you a moderator? I've noticed that certain members never get called out. Consistency would be nice.

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  • MFeldMFeld Posts: 14,946 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ms70 said:

    @MFeld said:

    @coinbuf said:

    @Smudge said:
    Everyone is just getting a little stir crazy. Please excuse a few missteps.

    This, rules are meant to be broken and with things being what they are a little bending is not the worst thing.

    That’s up to Heather. But I think the often repeated expression “Rules are made/meant to be broken” is bologna. They are meant to be followed, which is why there are often penalties for not doing so.

    Are you a moderator? I've noticed that certain members never get called out. Consistency would be nice.

    No.

    Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 36,841 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ms70 said:

    @MFeld said:

    @coinbuf said:

    @Smudge said:
    Everyone is just getting a little stir crazy. Please excuse a few missteps.

    This, rules are meant to be broken and with things being what they are a little bending is not the worst thing.

    That’s up to Heather. But I think the often repeated expression “Rules are made/meant to be broken” is bologna. They are meant to be followed, which is why there are often penalties for not doing so.

    Are you a moderator? I've noticed that certain members never get called out. Consistency would be nice.

    They don't tend to call people out publicly. The send a warning in a DM.

    All comments reflect the opinion of the author, evn when irrefutably accurate.

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @ms70 said:

    @MFeld said:

    @coinbuf said:

    @Smudge said:
    Everyone is just getting a little stir crazy. Please excuse a few missteps.

    This, rules are meant to be broken and with things being what they are a little bending is not the worst thing.

    That’s up to Heather. But I think the often repeated expression “Rules are made/meant to be broken” is bologna. They are meant to be followed, which is why there are often penalties for not doing so.

    Are you a moderator? I've noticed that certain members never get called out. Consistency would be nice.

    They don't tend to call people out publicly. The send a warning in a DM.

    Yes, but I'm referring to the self appointed forum police.

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 36,841 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ms70 said:

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @ms70 said:

    @MFeld said:

    @coinbuf said:

    @Smudge said:
    Everyone is just getting a little stir crazy. Please excuse a few missteps.

    This, rules are meant to be broken and with things being what they are a little bending is not the worst thing.

    That’s up to Heather. But I think the often repeated expression “Rules are made/meant to be broken” is bologna. They are meant to be followed, which is why there are often penalties for not doing so.

    Are you a moderator? I've noticed that certain members never get called out. Consistency would be nice.

    They don't tend to call people out publicly. The send a warning in a DM.

    Yes, but I'm referring to the self appointed forum police.

    The forum, like grade school, tends to be cliquey. ;)

    All comments reflect the opinion of the author, evn when irrefutably accurate.

  • AlexinPAAlexinPA Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No comment.
    :|

  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @ms70 said:

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @ms70 said:

    @MFeld said:

    @coinbuf said:

    @Smudge said:
    Everyone is just getting a little stir crazy. Please excuse a few missteps.

    This, rules are meant to be broken and with things being what they are a little bending is not the worst thing.

    That’s up to Heather. But I think the often repeated expression “Rules are made/meant to be broken” is bologna. They are meant to be followed, which is why there are often penalties for not doing so.

    Are you a moderator? I've noticed that certain members never get called out. Consistency would be nice.

    They don't tend to call people out publicly. The send a warning in a DM.

    Yes, but I'm referring to the self appointed forum police.

    The forum, like grade school, tends to be cliquey. ;)

    So true.

  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,863 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have no idea, but perhaps the motivation was to prevent people from accidentally disappearing. We are missing a bunch of folks here who provided a tremendous wealth of knowledge. Such a notion would be altruistic. I could use a reminder myself, from time to time...... :)

  • GluggoGluggo Posts: 3,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @davewesen said:
    is this thread 'US Coin Forum' related?

    I think it fit especially if one of the members is attacking another. Don’t you? Nice Coin by the way. Never liked that brand of cereal but wished I had one of them. Thank you for sharing.

  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I guess I got lucky, as I missed it as well. :'(

  • Desert MoonDesert Moon Posts: 6,004 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ...---...

    Comment deleted before posting for fear of being banned........

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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmlanzaf said:

    The forum, like grade school, tends to be cliquey. ;)

    I missed out in school. I hope I get to be in the clique here! :)

    BTW, it seems at least one forum member follows the speed limits in TX. >:)

  • ironmanl63ironmanl63 Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DIMEMAN said:
    I know I have wanted to "reply" to some of the post out here. I've had to bite my tongue more than once! My time on this forum is more important than setting some people straight. ;)B)

    I don"t have any tongue left! Hopefully the mods will do what needs to be done!

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ironmanl63 said: "Hopefully the mods will do what needs to be done!"

    Rest assured. o:)

  • OnastoneOnastone Posts: 4,159 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Whoops. I missed this post the first time around. I've had one post deleted and one discussion stopped as each time, the conversation went off rail into politics-which seems to be an easy thing to do lately. I just wish all our forum members well being in these troubled times. Just to be fair, politics play a pretty big part in our coins, as many of them portray presidents. And the new virus is most certainly affecting our economy and how we purchase coins. It's all just a bit distracting.

  • yspsalesyspsales Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I commented on two non coin threads...

    Trying to do better but I often forget.

    Did clean out my cluttered guest bedroom today, and can now see a stacks of proof sets and slabs.

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  • KindaNewishKindaNewish Posts: 827 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Justacommeman said:

    He was told repeatedly not to leave the forum toilet seat up.

    Justified. That is inexcusable.

  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,308 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This place is very Animal Farm.

  • KindaNewishKindaNewish Posts: 827 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ReadyFireAim said:

    @ms70 said:
    Yes, but I'm referring to the self appointed forum police.

    MFeld doesn't have the ban button soooo....

    I shall taunt you a second time!

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 21, 2020 8:11PM

    .

  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    NI

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  • 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fine...I’m sending in a submission ;)

  • 50cCOMMEMGUY50cCOMMEMGUY Posts: 211 ✭✭✭

    Four legs good, two legs better!

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    loaf. Perhaps someday the whole damn boulangerie." - fictional Jack Rackham

  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 21, 2020 9:56PM

    If you're going to have rules, enforce them.
    Lance.

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  • OldIndianNutKaseOldIndianNutKase Posts: 2,715 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I missed Heather's March 16 post and still cannot find it. Thanks to MFeld for re-posting it for those of us that missed it.

    A better forum for politics and character assasination is FaceBook. Perhaps we should form a FaceBook Group where we can also discuss non-coin issues that are of universal concern.

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,884 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @airplanenut said:

    @ms70 said:

    There. Now this OT thread is coin related.

    And now that we're discussing a coin, let's have a lesson in historical context. Of course, "Mind Your Business" was referring to taking care of your economic business ventures--a perfectly valid reminder to appear on money in a time when the American economy was still in its infancy--and had nothing to do with today's use of the phrase "mind your [own] business/beeswax."

    Fugio is Latin for "I fly". The sun dial represents time. The entire message is "Time flies so mind your business." It sounds like advice found in "Poor Richard's Almanac" which was authored and published by Ben Franklin.

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