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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7407034, member: 19463"]We should note that we have also come down on people (usually new posters) who post one thread asking ID's of a dozen coins all in that one post. Part of this is from a few people who posted these mega-requests and then offered the coins with our research on eBay. Some of us don't mind helping the clueless but draw the line as being used as unpaid labor by would-be coin dealers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with Donna's dislike of threads that push good threads off of page one so I tend to ignore requests for too many ID's in too short a period no matter how many posts are used to show them all. I feel we are here to teach men to fish but the ones who expect free meals should not expect fine dining.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding rules: Most people consider any rule with which they disagree to be 'arbitrary' while rules with which they agree to be 'Gospel'. Personally, the 'rule' I would like to see is one that would reject posts in the 'ancient' group by people who <u>do not realize</u> that they are posting in the 'ancient' section. This is especially the case when we are told that all cleaned coins are trash or some other subject that applies to modern coins (for which CT has dedicated sections) but not to ancients (which are all trash, anyway). Opinions are one thing but answers to questions are better when the person posting that answer know where they are posting. I do not and should not post answers about modern coins (about which I know nothing) using data I have about ancients. Some here will disagree with me on this but I do wonder why they are reading posts in an area they do not have interest other than misleading people.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7407034, member: 19463"]We should note that we have also come down on people (usually new posters) who post one thread asking ID's of a dozen coins all in that one post. Part of this is from a few people who posted these mega-requests and then offered the coins with our research on eBay. Some of us don't mind helping the clueless but draw the line as being used as unpaid labor by would-be coin dealers. I agree with Donna's dislike of threads that push good threads off of page one so I tend to ignore requests for too many ID's in too short a period no matter how many posts are used to show them all. I feel we are here to teach men to fish but the ones who expect free meals should not expect fine dining. Regarding rules: Most people consider any rule with which they disagree to be 'arbitrary' while rules with which they agree to be 'Gospel'. Personally, the 'rule' I would like to see is one that would reject posts in the 'ancient' group by people who [U]do not realize[/U] that they are posting in the 'ancient' section. This is especially the case when we are told that all cleaned coins are trash or some other subject that applies to modern coins (for which CT has dedicated sections) but not to ancients (which are all trash, anyway). Opinions are one thing but answers to questions are better when the person posting that answer know where they are posting. I do not and should not post answers about modern coins (about which I know nothing) using data I have about ancients. Some here will disagree with me on this but I do wonder why they are reading posts in an area they do not have interest other than misleading people.[/QUOTE]
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