People who post a lot and then suddenly stop

Unless he wins. I do. I even did my second divorce pro se, and got what I wanted there, too. Just had a very nice phone call with her last night, too. She's divorcing AGAIN. I stayed single.

 

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But you're a client representing himself, so the client has a fool for a lawyer.

 

Once I learned that lawyers care more about their relationships with opposing counsel than about representing their clients, a tough lesson, I got over trusting them. I've beaten lawyers 14 times, and I never have to worry about facing them a second time, so I go uber-aggressive from the get-go. No, "why don't we meet for drinks tonight and hammer this all out?" Nope, full bore going-for-broke all the way. I arrive in court with pre-trial motions, but ready to proceed to trial that day. It tends to turn licensed attorneys into pussycats figuring out how they are going to make time for this. I'm on a first name basis with judges, but not attorneys.

I was tutored by one of the finest appellate criminal defense attorneys Pennsylvania has ever produced. He once did appellate work for some of Little Nicky Scarfo's boys.

 

That was one of the best ones I've seen. Funny stuff

 

Ahhh. Keep them coming. Lol

 

Glad I'm on your side. Remember me.

 

Who could forget a female who hangs in there on Cointalk?

 

Sank you mery vuch, thir. I'll take you up on that. That helps a LOT. Believe it or not, I often AM NOT trying to be cute; I genuinely don't know, and especially in SOME cases involving the moderator we both know I have "issues" with, I truly don't get what he sees sometimes. And when HE is asked, he sometimes gets very defensive.

 

No fault divorces are very easy to do. Anyone with a little time and patience can go to a law library at a university and figure out how to do it himself/herself. Most attorneys also offer no fault/uncontested divorces inexpensively (save for the rare complicated case) because the proceedings are largely cookie cutter in nature.

 

'Specially her. She should be an old hand at it. #4 for her. But her new one is gonna have property issues. There's real estate. At least no kids. All grown. That makes people nuts.

One of the most voluminous law libraries going is about 20 feet down the hall.

 

Full.........full for a lawyer.

 

Here's where I get my advantage: when I'm in court, I am the only case I have on my calendar. That makes me the party ready to go when the judge says to. That wins friends on the bench. In Berks County, last time I went into court, as a possible expert witness that ultimately wasn't even needed for the case, the Judge made notice on the record of his pleasure at seeing me again. It had been about three years.

 

I miss seeing @gbroke posting his colorful Jefferson’s and other toners.

He posted a lot when I first came to this site. His posts’ are what got me interested in toners.


Looks like he hasn’t posted since May of 17.

 

And his connection on his data page doesn't work for me.

 

He'll argue with you every step of the way, and you'll never be able to convince him you're right. But, i'll give Doug this - he is quite knowledgeable and persuasive. Many people believe what he says, even when he's wrong.

I think some of the problem I have with Doug is that he is forceful, but he's also a moderator. That position gives him some position of authority (and people are trained to respect authority). Even when moderators are wrong, they have credibility because of their position.

I'm okay with Doug being a moderator - he has the time, dedication, and knowledge to effectively moderate. Same with all of the other moderators, as far as I know. However, what I would like to see is all moderators have the title stripped from their account. People who are moderators can post and argue and opine on their personal accounts. Any moderation should occur on a moderator account... "Coin Talk Mod" or something like that. That way, we can get the knowledge and experience of doug and desertgem and whoever else, but we can separate that from their position.

The other option is to just not have the mods post much, but I don't want that.

 

There is the scientific/first principles approach, and there is the empirical/"well I know it 'cause I've seen it" approach to knowledge.

 

Yes, and the second one is seductive, tempting, like the Dark Side, or as we Dead Eyes call it, the Dork Side of The Farce.

 

This IMO is the biggest problem with a hobby where reliable information can already be hard to come by. I gave up debating with Doug and certain others (both here and elsewhere) because it's pointless. People who are "wrong, but strong" (to quote my wife) both misinform and frustrate. But let me ask another question... why are otherwise knowledgeable people even in a position where they force and argue bad info? For the most part it seems to me a simple trick of the ego where people assume that their expertise in one thing translates to another. It often does not. I've seen people widely regarded as top experts in their area of numismatics be completely wrong on a very basic issue and argue it to death. How do you argue with someone who you know is wrong, but everyone else puts on a pedestal as supremely knowledgeable? The readers are partially to blame, because they also tend to believe an expert's knowledge of one thing translates to another.

 

IMO, you just summed up numismatics' worst problem. Not just on CT. EVERYWHERE in this field. NONE OF US are half as smart as we think and wish we are, especially me. Well, maybe with the exception of @Fred Weinberg, but even he'll tell you when he's beyond his niche. I have had that answer from him. We have this nasty little tendency to have a recessed humility gene. But my "day job" associates have it even worse, so there's that. Both bring out the same in me when I get in conflicts with them - I want to run them over. Pancake flat.