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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3147584, member: 19463&quot;]Opinions and nothing more: </p><p>1. We could work on adding a few more voting categories or changing the three if we determine that it favors something too heavily.&nbsp; The value vote is supposed to rate how well the person did in obtaining that coin.&nbsp; If a person won a normally $1000 coin for $900, that is a bargain.&nbsp; If they paid $1000 for a normally $100 coin (High Ratings?), that is not.&nbsp;&nbsp; We currently have one listed as a sleeper at 1/10th going rate because of the seller not knowing the difference.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>2. I agree it is a popularity contest for many.&nbsp; Rather than holding firm to the categories which would require me to call a $200 Tribute Penny a bargain and a $200 Falling Horseman variety overpriced, I do have the option of saying I just like coin A better than coin B so I am giving it all three of my votes.&nbsp; Will I have trouble voting for a coin from someone on my &#039;Ignore&#039; list if they play next year (none this year)?&nbsp; You can not write rules for everything.&nbsp; I strongly prefer the contests to the seemingly neverending posts of fakes many of which turn out to be by people who already knew the answer but were just trying to show we are fools.&nbsp; I assume you missed our recent drama and all his now banned ID&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; I retired in the best possible place FOR ME.&nbsp; You would not like it.&nbsp; One of my college professors retired to a place he bought in Greece.&nbsp; 50 years ago he started vacationing there and found exactly where he wanted to die.&nbsp; Fifty years ago it really bothered him what the locals were doing inside Mycenaean beehive tombs.&nbsp; I wonder by now if he has a &#039;gotta go when you gotta go&#039; attitude.&nbsp; We change.&nbsp; Both of my (divorced) parents retired to Florida and moved back to Indiana after 10-20 years when all their Florida friends had died.&nbsp; Picking a long term perfect answer is harder than you think.&nbsp; We retired here 15 years ago.&nbsp; In that time we have had minor damage from earthquakes, two trees that fell and hit the house, a couple hurricanes, tornadoes within a few miles, minor civil unrest, bad pollen, years of seemingly constant rain or none at all.&nbsp; Twice we could smell smoke from fires but the kind we get here don&#039;t make the national news.&nbsp; My daughter&#039;s house is a hundred yards north thru the woods and the woods are full of chiggers.&nbsp; Like I said, picking a long term perfect answer is harder than you think.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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