Can We Please Title The Coin!

How you approach this makes all the difference in the world, though. Imagine being an excited new collector with what you think might be something big, and the first words appearing from the first responder to your first thread at a new forum are an admonition about the semantic technique you used to post. Coin? What coin? We care more about form than substance....

By all means, encourage people to post in ways which better get their point across, and improve their chances of receiving accurate information. Peer pressure is a heckuva lot more effective than top-down Moderation. But be aware of the stick you're swinging, and the effect of swinging it inappropriately.

You can tell someone to go pound sand, and if you're sweet enough about it, they'll not only do it immediately but thank you for the suggestion.

That's me as well. With my mobile viewing platform, I can't see users' avatars with posts or country in New or Active Topics (I don't even know if others can). I "click" on something about a nickel, and it turns out to be Canadian, which I know essentially nothing about. Sometimes, I leave immediately because I can't contribute but, sometimes I read through and learn something.

You don't have to actively collect something to read about it and learn. I view pretty much everything I see that has an interesting title whether denomination is included in it or not. The only exception, really, is a title with " VAM". I'm not ready for that.

With the volume of posts and the number of those by people completely new to the hobby, I understand the lack of immediate info in titles and the workload put on staff to correct that. As jbuck said:




I mostly use that for topics in the wrong forum but, a title change is just as good a reason to use it. The mass of us non-staff views more quickly what the Mods can and can individually find as a problem.

Thank you to the Mods and Staff for this great place!

I agree. I never noticed people didn't put the denomination of the coin in the title until this thread.