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Message:: [QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2437195, member: 1892"]I equate the atmosphere of this place to visiting my (fictional) backwoods kin in western North Carolina. Plainspoken, somewhat uncouth, uncaring of "social niceties" but the vast majority of them would give you their last dollar without being asked. A very small percentage are genuinely ugly folk who are only here to argue and insult people, but the majority respond just as a gentleman/gentlewoman should when responded to with calm patience. And keep in mind, many of them speak from decades of numismatic experience, and are equally pretty old hands at the Forum thing too. Some of us have dealt with dozens of inexperienced new members presenting 1969-S Lincolns alone, much less all the other rarities which one might think they've found in their limited experience. Add to that the impossibility of communicating body language and tone on the Internet, and you have a formula for patience wearing out early and often. Honestly, not everybody's cut out for the give-and-take of Internet online communities; they're genuinely different social formats than meatspace connections and the same rules don't work.[/QUOTE]