People who post a lot and then suddenly stop

@V. Kurt Bellman. You speak his language. What did he mean

 

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Lol.

 

Nobody on the freakin' PLANET speaks Robert's language.

 

Bah, humbug - I never had either - all I need is a nearby pay phone and a roll of buffalo nickels

 

Maybe they got banned?

 

Remember the tread where you gave your sticker to someones coin and they resubmitted it and it downgraded costing them a ton of money, I do......

Fortunately I learned very quickly to ignore people that haven't been involved in collecting or the market for a decade. Skills fade when you don't use them. Barry Bonds was once the best hitter on the planet but he's irrelevant now, as are people that have been on the sidelines too long

 

@baseball21 why'd you stop posting recently? I appreciate your savage straightforwardness on matters where right and wrong are moving targets.

 

Because of a moderator who lets their politics drive their moderation, they allowed someone to attack me for page after page because they were upset I corrected them about a coin and that was just the nail in the coffin for me. I basically just check PMs now and spend my time on other forums.

 

That's nice

 

Come back, we miss you

 

Moderators are a dime a dozen. Members are a penny a dozen...wait...what's my point?

 

Hmm, if I leave a place because I don't like it, I'll leave - and do not come back once in a while only to complain how bad I find it. In cases where I do return, I do that because I still find some topics or people interesting. So there's always hope.

As for phones, I use my cell phone most of the time. After all it is not just a phone but a great tool for notes, navigation, e-mail, payments ... But I also have a "land line" which these days is IP based telephony.

Christian

 

I have a cable TV connected landline because it costs me less to have than it would to NOT have it, at least for 3 more months. I'll change my plan when that math changes.

But Christian, I 100% agree with baseball21, the moderation on this site is beyond abysmal. Too little humility where massive amounts are warranted.

 

Not always but it happens enough. I tend to see that and force myself to move on and go off the site for a while or just ignore threads that person is inserting themselves on, because the ones who need to show more humility never will, my opinion is their psyche won't allow it, and ain't 'nothin to be gained by pushing back on it. I can't change someone else.

 

I push back on everything always. It's kind of who I am.

 

I'd love to get rid of my cell phone. You have me looking into a land line. I just hope they still exist in my area. Ha

 

Problem is that moderators are neither gods nor computers but humans. Volunteers whose primary aim is, surprise, not to make the lives of others miserable but to make or keep Coin Talk attractive while also making sure that our rules are respected by all members.

This double role - of being both a posting member and a mod - can be a challenge. Some members feel "censored" when a moderator edits or moves a post, sometimes moderators get attacked for what they do. BTDT. But by and large Coin Talk has a friendly and open atmosphere.

Christian

 

Agreed! The problem is that when "by and large" runs into a counterexample, as often as not, there's a moderator causing it.

 

That obviously depends on one's perspective.

 

The weaponization of one's personal opinions should NEVER be part of "moderation", yet it happens often here.