1964, uncirculated kennedy toned.

There definately needs to be an age limit. Having teens and younger learning about coins is great but someone that young should not have a voice that reaches so many people, especially when there is no real consequences for misuse.

 

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The problem is we've got some very polite, well-spoken YNs here as well. And anyway, if someone blindly takes the advice of one anonymous poster on the internet, they need to have their head examined.

 

+1

Would anyone say that I was impolite (most of the time... I can't take people who bash youth), or am not well spoken?

Heck, would anyone think I was a YN if I didn't tell them?

On the last point, I agree. Always make sure that you get multiple peoples opinions on a coin... if they take advice blindly from one or two people, that is a problem...

Thanks JA for giving me some good points to stand on...

 

You were exactly the person I was thinking about when I posted.

 

Thanks

 

I agree, but the fact is that this can and does happen, so known to us or not, we each shoulder some level of responsibility for what we say.

 

I wouldn't think many of you would call me out to be a YN if I didn't tell you. I don't think this forum should have an age limit (maybe a maturity limit?), simply because there are plenty of YNs out there with perfectly legitimate questions, and even a very few that are intelligent enough to answer some of my (possibly your) questions.

 

I don't think anyone's issue is with his age.

It's that he speaks with such authority and 'from a dealer perspective', when he has no basis for any of it. He's poked around on here for a few months and now he tosses out his opinions as fact and a lot of time, when they're not asked for.

It's nothing to do with age or being a 'YN', it's about being mature/smart enough to know you don't know everything.

 

My thoughts exactly! Half the time I see posts on here that I'd love to make responses to, but I don't because I know I would have no foundation to back myself up on! I at least make sure I can support what I say. I must say, there have been times when I've hardly known anything about certain coins and I have posted about them, but I try to make it clear that I'm either joking or very uneducated with the coin/topic at hand.

 

Tone and context! I don't want to discourage anyone from posting anything they feel is valid--just make sure it's valid, or at least be able to say why you think it is.

For instance, someone posts a Morgan and wants to know if it's fake..

You might say,

"Clearly a fake."

Or..

"If I had to take a guess, I'd say it looks fake to me because of the porous nature of the surface."


Both of those might be true, both of the statements might be false.

But one of the statements encourages dialogue and 'brain-picking', the other comes across as know-it-all/useless from just about anybody, let alone an 11 year old.

That's what I mean to say..it's not what he says, it's how he says it.

By the way, both you and Windchild are a credit and an asset to this forum, from my limited experience here.

Anyway, enough of that. Didn't mean to hijack the topic, it's just been stuck in my craw for a few weeks now.

 

OP: Could you post a closer pic ?

 

I agree that an age limit might not be the right solution, maybe I was mistaken in my earlier opinion. It is really an issue of maturity not age but there is no way to determine maturity when someone creates an account, the only way to attempt to "monitor" maturity is by imposing an age limit, and that is not a good solution because it keeps younger coin enthusiast from learning and engaging in our hobby. Also, not every person under a designated age is immature just as not every adult is mature. For me it is that I don't really mind listening to an abbrasive comment from an adult because I feel that the comment is coming with some level of experience and contemplation. The comment that started this debate is a good example of comment devoid of conversational etiquette or experience. Who would say something like that other then a child? But everything I just said means nothing because there is no age limit on this site and having one would hurt alot of people on here in order to filter out a couple folks that annoy jerks like me.

 

Plus, an age limit is useless on the internet...

However, I don't post as an expert for coins, but I do when talking about mythology and some parts of Ancient Rome (I've been there, plus have been studying it for 13 years... since I was barely able to speak!