Collector's Universe U.s Coin Forum, Scary!

They were askng about Susan's whereabouts on CT...just today!

I went and took a look as well. It seems one of the forum administators did not want a link to this forum posted ontheC/T forum because this Forum is just a place for Susan to advertise her business!!!! I sent NOS the link to this site in a private mail. Mike

Stujoe, you know you are always welcome here and I'm glad to hear that you stop by here.

Since Stujoe would never do this, I'd like to let everyone know that he runs a great forum called Coin People. Definitely worth checking out. I feel the same way that you do, Stujoe. There is no reason for competition, we're all here to serve the numismatic community. Some just do it a lot differently

For the record, I would also like to point out that I started this forum for the purpose of education and discussion (in that order). Yes, we have links to our items for sale, but the domain and hosting cost us money. It's no different than if we had outside advertisers.

The purpose of this forum has never been and will never be to generate business. I firmly believe that education is the key to collector success and this forum is one tangible way of providing that.

I visit a dozen forums and stopped posting on most because I was just ignored
I was eliminated twice with four posts on gold eagle forum for saying something uneconomical like where you can get a free antiflash program
( that will stop those annoying ads flashing in your face )
The second time for asking where somebody was ( he had just been deleted )

I think it was on Coin Talk that a 6 lettre abbreviation poster
said a coin I showed was harsly cleaned ( now my best friend is a retired american coindealer and he commented I will believe it when the guy explains how and why but I let it drop )

Problem is that professionals sometimes will be condescending whilst being wrong
This place seems to be more open to honest opinions then many others

Hi Stujoe! Nice to see you popping in.

ageka, try not to take the comments too personally. Many people who have been in the hobby for a while are quick to pass judments on a coin because they have seen the same type of thing over an over. Trying to determine grades and cleaning from an internet picture is very difficult. If your color settings are off a bit it can make the coin pictured look like a harshly cleaned coin. If the glass has been cleaned on your scanner the streaks will show up in the picture making the coin appear to have lines on it.
Most of the time, it is just an opinion, and they are trying to be as honest as possible. Now I know that many are quick to make a comment and not explain why they have made that decision. I have been guilty of that myself many times. There are some quality people on CoinTalk and still some good information being put out. Most forum users jump around from site to site. That is a good idea. Many offer different formats and different topics. No one can learn everything from just one source. Some of us are just burdened by a serious lack of time.

For those of you that have not visited http://www.coinpeople.com please do. There are some interesting people who make that site their home. As an added bonus you can use all kinds of silly emotions there. (Kind of neat) Stujoe keeps udating the site so it takes a while to see everything, but I highly recommend it to anyone that likes to surf other forums that are friendly and knowledgeable.

Stujoe also has a section with some pretty cool coin games and puzzles. I've spent quite a bit of time there unwinding. I've got to ask him where he got those. Maybe we could add some here.