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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Erik, post: 1657959, member: 38862&quot;]Tone and context! I don&#039;t want to discourage anyone from posting anything they feel is valid--just make sure it&#039;s valid, or at least be able to say why you think it is. </p><p><br /></p><p>For instance, someone posts a Morgan and wants to know if it&#039;s fake.. </p><p><br /></p><p>You might say, </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Clearly a fake.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Or.. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;If I had to take a guess, I&#039;d say it looks fake to me because of the porous nature of the surface.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Both of those might be true, both of the statements might be false. </p><p><br /></p><p>But one of the statements encourages dialogue and &#039;brain-picking&#039;, the other comes across as know-it-all/useless from just about <b>anybody</b>, let alone an 11 year old. </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s what I mean to say..it&#039;s not what he says, it&#039;s how he says it. </p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, both you and Windchild are a credit and an asset to this forum, from my limited experience here. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, enough of that. Didn&#039;t mean to hijack the topic, it&#039;s just been stuck in my craw for a few weeks now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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