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<p>[QUOTE="Ian, post: 24422, member: 283"]I agree. There is a fine line between being informative and spoon feeding. On one side of the line one provides the dangling carrot in the form of information sufficient to respond AND encourage the reader to find out more for themselves. On the other side of the line one provides so much information that one is in danger of boring the reader into wishing they had never asked in the first place.... I'm never sure which side of the line my drivellings are on at any given point in time..... but that rarely stops me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>That also reminds me of a famous Oxfam billboard poster I first saw about forty years ago, and which has stuck with me ever since.</p><p><br /></p><p>`Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life'. I always thought there was something a bit fishy about coin collecting....;-)</p><p><br /></p><p>Ian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ian, post: 24422, member: 283"]I agree. There is a fine line between being informative and spoon feeding. On one side of the line one provides the dangling carrot in the form of information sufficient to respond AND encourage the reader to find out more for themselves. On the other side of the line one provides so much information that one is in danger of boring the reader into wishing they had never asked in the first place.... I'm never sure which side of the line my drivellings are on at any given point in time..... but that rarely stops me :-) That also reminds me of a famous Oxfam billboard poster I first saw about forty years ago, and which has stuck with me ever since. `Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life'. I always thought there was something a bit fishy about coin collecting....;-) Ian[/QUOTE]
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