Quote:I believe one person in the entire thread (SuperDave) actually provided info that may explain the
ebay problem. I still think their handling of it was horrible.
You're right on both counts.
Given your long selling history,
ebay obviously didn't do their due diligence to ensure you weren't a hacked account (it's a real problem for them), and lumped you in with the trolls. Stop your sales momentarily, yes, but give you a little due process.
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I really was hoping that joining "Coin Community Forum" would be a positive experience, where I would find people interested in numismatics, enjoy buying and selling, and want to exchange knowledge. Instead, I have found people who are vindictive, petty, and tiresome.
How does anyone benefit from posts like the ones left by Whytlash, Scubu, and countless others I have seen throughout these forums?
This is the first time I've ever bothered joining a forum - I just never saw the need for it. After this experience, it will most likely be the last. I certainly don't need this.
What you haven't learned yet, not having been exposed to the broad cross-section of humanity pretty much unique to online forums, is the huge variance range of what well-intentioned people consider "appropriate" verbiage. We're all wired differently - we choose differing modes of expression - and many choose language which others find offensive. It
isn't, to them. I'll tell you frankly, some of the language in this thread has skirted the edge of what we're willing to tolerate at Coin Community. The important point to that is
we still consider it tolerable, and we hold to a very, very strict standard of comportment by comparison to most other online forums. There are other, competing fora which would have flat-out dogpiled you for this thread.
In order to be a happy and successful participant in online discourse, you must realize that your standards are not those of others, and somewhat harden yourself against language you'd consider inappropriate. We didn't make that rule. It's just how it is.
Another consideration is the sensitivity required of us to those who practice business with looser morals. Numismatics is rife with the potential for fraud, and people more than willing to go there. We must at all times remain hypersensitive to protecting our members; finding and nuking a person who joined for the specific purpose of taking people's money is not an uncommon occurrence here. Obviously, that's not you, but our membership understands the possibility as well as we do, and there are times when overreactions happen as a result. The best trolls move fast, shift direction from "good" to "bad" very quickly, make their strike and are gone in hours.
In all honesty, my first reaction to this thread was that you were just here to subtly spam us with links to your
ebay storefront. That has turned out not to be the case; to your credit, even though you're selling something of potential interest to us as coin collectors, you have not once mentioned anything specific about the product or your business. But this is what happens in the real world, and our job is to be paranoid about it.
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Posted 07/13/2011 04:22 am
to the Community!
wholeheartedly!
