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I can't believe how boring this place has gotten and how watered down the membership has become. It used to be that there would be at least a few interesting and thought provoking topics at any given time. Lately, it's a reach just to find something that gets to the second page of replies which is actually worthwhile reading. With my page set to display 50 threads, ther are currently less than 10 which have 30 or more replies, and that includes the two about Gold News and the inane John Nanney discovery thread!!! Am I mistaken in recalling "the good old days" when there were many, many thought provoking threads??
Trying to find some reason for this slow activity is a puzzler. Summer weather can't be the cause, it's never slowed this place before. And it's a Saturday afternoon so most everyone should be off workj, except all you hard working dealers looking in!! I also seem to feel that the population of former active members who are now active lurkers has grown. I smell something in the air, can't be death or fear, so what the heck is it??
Since there seems to be such a dearth of active participation and interesting, thought provoking topice, please reply with a possible thread idea. We need it......................Deep in our hearts, we want it..........................Longacre, you are asked to please refrain from any suggesting.
Al H.
Trying to find some reason for this slow activity is a puzzler. Summer weather can't be the cause, it's never slowed this place before. And it's a Saturday afternoon so most everyone should be off workj, except all you hard working dealers looking in!! I also seem to feel that the population of former active members who are now active lurkers has grown. I smell something in the air, can't be death or fear, so what the heck is it??
Since there seems to be such a dearth of active participation and interesting, thought provoking topice, please reply with a possible thread idea. We need it......................Deep in our hearts, we want it..........................Longacre, you are asked to please refrain from any suggesting.
Al H.
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Yes and no, because it wasn't so much the original thread but the educated responses which made them into good threads. Now many of those people have been bammed or have moved on.
<< <i> "the good old days" >>
That should make an interesting, thought provoking thread. IMO...there is an incredible number of new collectors who think that these are those days.
That forum contributed to this forum and gave people a place to relax and talk about anything.
Now it seems, well boring.
We still get Copper For The Weekend and many excellent posts. An educational experience, no doubt. Heck, I enjoy your posts. All is not lost, but PCG, IMO, has scared away some of the best. Take Care, jws
Ray
if folks who really have a lot to add to our hobby
get banned because they speak their opinion
it can't be positive for this forum
WHY WON"T PCGS recognize and add the RDV-006 AKA "FEV" Friendly Eagle Variety 1971-D IKE Dollar to the Major and Complete Varieties Sets?
This is a major coin and deserves to be recognized.
I am sure KEETS will agree with me on this subject
GrandAm
Brothers, I surely don't believe I can think up a thought provoking thought.
I find myself running hot and cold when it comes to posting new threads or replying to existing threads. Many times I find that threads I initiate in 2008 generate few responses [i.e. a thread about 1950-1970 Cameo proof and SMS coins (which are some of my favorite coins to collect)], compared to the number of responses such a thread posted by me in 2004 and 2005 would receive.
I also find that in general the vibrancy of the forums dropped off substantially when the Open Forum was terminated. The OF was a very lively place and some of the liveliness of the OF spilled over into the US Coin Forum. Sure there were some OF posts that were racy and some that dealt with politics, government and religion. Sure there were obnoxious, crude moronic posters on the OF. However, the OF provided lts of life to the forums. I wonder if there is any chance that PCGS will ever consider reestablishing an Open Forum (albiet, one with rules prohibiting specified unacceptable topics, the violation of which would result in banning).
Today the number of posts to coin related forums other than the US Coin forums are minimal. Further, the posts to the US Coin forum are of less interest to me than in years past. Perhaps the education I have received here since joining in 8-2004 has made it much more difficult for a newly posted thread to grab and keep my attention.
I have not checked ou the ATS forums. Maybe I should give it a try. How many forumites also post ATS?
boring dummies, ignorant bastiches and limp lettece..
Camelot
how about some more free wheeling, though provoking discussions.
the OF is sorely missed.
After a while you've pretty much just said everything you know. ...couldda done it in a lot less than 32,000 posts but hey ya gotta get your +1's in sometimes.
I'll try an SMS post later.
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
Recent political ban of political banter...gone.
What else is there?
Respectible discourse on numismatics...give me a freakin' break.
Back to "nanney" & see what brilliance the woo-man has come up with.
REN
As for subject matter, I understand the desire by the ownership to avoid the name calling and nastiness that topics such as politics can provoke. And it's true that there are other forums for those subjects. But as someone who loves politics as well as coins, it's tough to sanitize my posts sometimes. And I think that although this is a numismatic forum, it's natural to want to come here and talk about a variety of things, just as we would with friends and families in our everyday lives. Also, coins/history/politics often overlap. If everyone was respectful, no censorship would be needed but that's not realistic.
Things go in cycles. If you search back in the forum history, you would find topics that were hot then but are mundane now. Statehood quarters might be a good example. And there are often multiple Ebay threads, particularly when policy changes are taking place. But that's normal since so many here buy and sell in that venue. The bottom line is that like anything, it's what you make it.
I would love to see more historical posts talking about how gold coins were minted in the early 1800's. i.e. photos of the colors, the presses why dies so often cracked etc...
There are a lot more silver collectors for the years I am interested in who can have nice conversations on die varieties, die pairings etc...
Wish we could have a lively discussion on why certain pairings happened on early gold.
<< <i>Yes indeed. Nobody left here but numb nuts, dolts,
boring dummies, ignorant bastiches and limp lettece..
Hi Bear
Do you like string puppet shows? Perhaps that
will cheer you up?
Leo
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
My Jefferson Nickel Collection
``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5
You have buffoons asking questions just to have other buffoons give inane answers to whatever they can think of at that moment.
There use to be a time when you could talk coins on a coin board with other people about coins and go to other internet boards to talk about other topics.
Not the case anymore these days.
Guess I am tired of scanning through 2 pages of...
"Can anyone think of a lampshade that reminds you of a coin......." threads that get 25 childish responses (not even from children), but newbies asking coin related questions get 3.
Maybe a law (and Medical) degree just promotes a$$es these days. --I know you know who I mean, but it doesn't matter now does it?
You may be embarrassed to know that others know who I mean also, but you probably aren't.
Sad part is these attention whore$ threads are spawning new attention whore$ to do the same.
Yeah it is different Al.
<< <i>Yo, JRocco, that doesn't sound like happy talk. Darn New Yorkers always gotta speak their mind. Hey, with that said...... post a coin that reminds you of a New York accent. >>
Oh stman,
You know, I was really going to end my rant with a comment along the lines of...."I know this isn't happy talk, but..."
Hey stman, you could always get a side job writing for Letterman...you could sure increase his ratings
That said...I recently won a bet with the paperboy, think I should go out and buy a new coin stman ?
Maybe I should start a poll
It was just some of my acerbic humor.
Actually, when fresh water flows into
a delta, it tends to renew life. If patient
we will see new experts, new interests
and new life after the usual summer doldrums.
Camelot
or say it my way. (charming personality included)
<< <i>JRocco, so you took the poor paperboy's money? I think you should start a poll if this is ethical. >>
You mean taking money from people who went out and earned it just because I can is unethical ???
But - but they never mentioned that in all those years of law school stman......
Maybe I can think of a really ridiculous question and post it first thing tomorrow morning, now that will surely make me feel better, and important too
wimen with breastidges are much better to play with than silvery discs of a metallic nature.
Go get the breatidges my fine young numistmatists....
go get em while they are young and have not been ridden hard...
<< <i>I agree with Bear, he is wise and not that old, but he is right- summer is here and most of the coin geeks have found out that
wimen with breastidges are much better to play with than silvery discs of a metallic nature.
Go get the breatidges my fine young numistmatists....
go get em while they are young and have not been ridden hard... >>
Hard to reply to such strong "words of wisdom"
Maybe I 'll just go have a cup of coffee and eat a piece of pound cake.
Could it be? Yes it could. Somethin's coming, something good.....
Well, I could talk about what I did today that was pretty cool, but it doesn't relate to coin collecting. Hey, how about that 2nd Amendment Ruling!
I knew it would happen.
most any one. Develop a tougher hide and
a measure of confidence in who you are. Then,
you will do just fine on this Forum.
Camelot
I am kinda partial to Hostess cupcakes.
Camelot
``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5
"the web site is open to most any one." ...is this what CU had in mind when it shut down the OF and carried out the purges of '06 and '07? The south was open to most any one too, wasn't it?
Camelot
overtones; even when coin related. Other threads with
posts bordering on buffoonery are not deleted.
New kids are coming in. Can we leave them with
the same respect we have for the hobby ?.
Sure we can.
RWB answered my question about cameo cutters in the blink of an eye. How can that be improved on?
How about... why some people who have registry sets keep their coins locked up, even though they stated they sold the entire set to someone else last year and that person sold some coins to me.
It sucks for me, when I can't get the coins released in time for the Registry Set annual cut-off, full well knowing I'd finally have a #1 set...
Steve
In memory of the USAF Security Forces lost: A1C Elizabeth N. Jacobson, 9/28/05; SSgt Brian McElroy, 1/22/06; TSgt Jason Norton, 1/22/06; A1C Lee Chavis, 10/14/06; SSgt John Self, 5/14/07; A1C Jason Nathan, 6/23/07; SSgt Travis Griffin, 4/3/08; 1Lt Joseph Helton, 9/8/09; SrA Nicholas J. Alden, 3/3/2011. God Bless them and all those who have lost loved ones in this war. I will never forget their loss.
<< <i>Al, How about... why some people who have registry sets keep their coins locked up, even though they stated they sold the entire set to someone else last year and that person sold some coins to me. It sucks for me, when I can't get the coins released in time for the Registry Set annual cut-off, full well knowing I'd finally have a #1 set... Steve >>
Did you read the OP? What does this axe grind
have to do with the question at hand??????