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Forum Dad
 United States
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Seems like every 2 or 3 years I have to say this.
If you can't reply to a topic without being snarky, mean, or a condescending jerk, just don't reply, I'm done.
I've had enough. Please don't try my patience.
New members are the building blocks of this community, chasing them away because you have no patience is not acceptable.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3281 Posts |
Hopefully this will make an impact towards the aggressive and smartaleck comments.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
992 Posts |
done
Edited by suipakpaikungfu
06/25/2020 06:01 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Not replying means, to me,
that they will simply accept the fact that what they believe is true... ' Does it truly matter if they don't agree with you? The easiest way to deal with someone who is being argumentative and irrational is to accept their arguments even if they are wrong. Accepting that someone is stuck on a particular idea doesn't mean they are right. If that is impossible there's no reason to let their insistence make you impolite. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3281 Posts |
Cool it suipakpaikungfu.
It's very simple, as Bobby said. If you are getting annoyed with someone that doesn't wish to accept your advice, be the mature human and walk away, leave the thread.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
992 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3281 Posts |
Goodbye suipakpaikungfu, I wish you the best.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7504 Posts |
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I'm done with this... Very wise  |
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Forum Dad
 United States
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Not replying means, to me,
that they will simply accept the fact that what they believe is true... So what? Let them. You can't convince everyone of the truth. |
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New Member
United States
13 Posts |
I like your avatar.
There: #2 post and it was a nice one.
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Pillar of the Community
5464 Posts |
This forum is top notch and very well managed, unlike the heavy handedness and gestapo tactics of the manager and MOD's over on CoinTalk!!
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Pillar of the Community
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Or Stampboards for that matter, they brag on 15k members yet only about 50 of them are active. Every newbie with a stamp is chased away from knowitalls who call their stamps rubbish, kiddie junk, ferret cage liners and the like. The Australian run board is also incredibly racist towards anyone not from a White majority 1st world country as I found out first hand. If anyone acted like that here, I would expect a perma ban. Coins and stamps need new collectors and we should be welcoming them no matter how naive they are. Of course there will be time waters who keep starting a new thread for every common coin they have, but these are a minority. My mother always said "If you can't say something nice, keep your mouth closed".  |
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Valued Member
Australia
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@Princetane
I'm very sad to hear this.
In Australia "We are one, but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come
We'll share a dream and sing with one voice
"I am, you are, we are Australian"
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Unfortunately the last couple of comments are totally not in tune with the real purpose behind this topic to begin with.
let's not divert from the main purpose of this topic.
my suggestion has always been for those members who wish to insult or talk down to new members to be suspended on their first offense and then eliminated thereafter upon repeat.I think many members are done as well.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Much better to reply with a sympathetic attitude and
still be as clearly truthful as possible, without being snarky.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I cannot count the times that I have read a reply to a poster which made me think..."WHY did you have to answer THAT way?" It just turns me off, and then I go on to another post. No wonder our Forum Dad is at the end of his patience.  If "New members are the building blocks of this community..." then we who have been here a while have a responsibility to make them a part of the structure  and not to toss them away. Although I do not believe that I have ever been a "snarky, mean, or ... condescending jerk" I still feel somehow guilty. The jerks feel NOTHING but their own importance.  |
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Posted 06/24/2020 9:31 pm
