One Bad Thing About This Site

Hmmm, I think Kerry67 and Ichirensha's posts have some merit from a newbie perspective, at least from a certain type of newbie. I think there is a type that more or less come here to read and learn about things and don't really feel comfortable posting all that much. I'm not very talkative myself until I get comfortable with people but I've done a lot of reading here and learned quite a bit. I can't speak for them but I don't really have that much time to fool around online but I try to keep up with this forum as well as a couple others and then there is e-mail, ebay, checking weather and whatever else. Much of the time I'm pretty much just scanning things trying to get in a quick session before the kids notice I might be enjoying myself and rebel and I don't have time to do everything I want, including posting. Some of us just don't get into the posting aspect and although we would like to buy, sell or trade it just isn't gonna happen for a while and we feel it bites. We may understand it and plan to abide by it but that doesn't make it bite any less.

Now, as for the elitist thing I wouldn't say it is so much elitist as a good old boy kind of thing, and it is there. There is a group that posts, to one extent or another, and know each other and are comfortable with each other and I can understand that but it is rather tough to break in to cliques like that. Many make a good effort to make newbies feel at home (such as the birthday greeting last month, thanks. You, my daughter and my Mom remembered *LOL*) but when your posts are ignored and questions aren't responded to I know I just go back to reading. I enjoy trading and have done a few trades at another forum and had excellent results. I've not only gotten rid of some coins I didn't want anymore for some coins that I did want but I got to know the people I traded with a bit better too. I'll get to fifty posts sooner or later and when I do I'll take a shot at some deals and see what happens but the fifty post limit does seem a bit much to me. It isn't a major problem in my life, not even a minor one, maybe up there with a bit of heartburn maybe, I dunno, but I figured I'd throw my Two Cents in there and score yet another post.

Geez, I still got a ways to go............

TSOTL, I might say I appreciate your opinions and to you and many others they are valid but I do disagree about the elitist group or the good old boys you referred to. Many of us here have been together for years, coming here after the Coin World forum shut down, so we have quite a head start on you and others like yourself. The rules were put in place to serve EVERYONES best interest and they have served well. I might add you have the option at any time to email (PM) any member of this forum to work up a trade, to buy, or to sell. What ever comes out of that attempt will be between you and the member you contact. I imagine most would be glad to hear from you and work with you. When I started trading for Euro coinage in 2002 I was dealing with total unknowns from all over Europe and they with this stranger from the U.S. From that point I have created relationships all over the world and have never been burned one time by anyone. I am very proud of what I have accomplished and the coin collecting friends I have made world wide and on this forum. You can do the same with very little effort. Wish you nothing but the best and hopefully you will hang around, get those posts in, so this will all be a thing of the past. Until then use private email to build those relationships and see what happens. Thank you for your opinion and for being a part of this forum.

I'm pretty much a newbie here myself and I have never felt this forum was a elitist or a good Ol boy forum. I have received nothing but a warm welcome and great information.TSOTL,sorry you feel that way,hopefully you will stick around and give it some time.

I probably am registered on 30 forums and have posted on them at one time or another
Currently I am down to 3 forums active and another 3 lurking

On every forum I ever visited there were people that found kindred spirits and if they had some time they would respond to those kindred spirits first .

On one reputable forum one of the moderators stated that the highest possible praise one could get was to be totally ignored . Of course I attained that lofty status and since they crashed I did not even bother to re register

I am convinced this is the most friendly and most helpfull forum on the net for a newby or to gather knowledge .
TSOTL I hope you will stick around because you seem to fit the profile

TSOTL, I am so sorry that you feel that way. I have been a member of many forums and seen many trades and sales go badly because the posting minimum was set at 10 or 20 or there was no posting limit at all. It is from experience that I developed the rules for this forum in an attempt to avoid bad situations. I hope that you decide to stay with us.

Metalman, I know that it was an honest mistake. We all make them. It was my fault for not changing the forum text in the first place.

Terry
Was that the commercial break ?

Over hear the TV screen goes black for a second like every 10 minutes in all american series and I figured out that is were they cut the commercials from the break to sell it in europe

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Originally posted by thekidcollector

Hey its not hard getting 50 posts, People get to 2000+ posts a year and those people also participate on other forums.
I myself are in 2 other forums, but this is always my main priority.

TKC!

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Maybe for some people it's easy. As I previously posted I'm not that talkative and my time online is generally limited. Like many other newbs I don't have the experience or knowledge to answer very many questions that others throw out so I have to fit in posts where I can.

The only reason I posted about this was because I felt that Kerry67 and Ichirensha's concerns were being blown off. Everyone tends to look at things based on their own perspective and since the people who were responding to them are regular posters there wasn't a problem as far as they are concerned.

Relax everyone, I'll get fifty and I doubt I'm going anywhere. I've been hanging around since early May and this is my twentieth post, I think, so it will be a bit but if I was here only for the buy/sell/trade aspect I would have forced more posts and got there by now. Either that or bolted.