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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8169216, member: 110350&quot;]To be entirely fair to the person at Forvm who made the &quot;not serious&quot; comment in the first place, I posted for the first time ever over there (although I&#039;ve been a member for some years), and pushed hard to explain why his comment was unfair, and persuade him that he should withdraw it and apologize. I kept emphasizing, among other things, that so many people post in both venues that it makes no sense to think that the same people are &quot;serious&quot; and scholarly at Forvm but that when they post here they&#039;re not serious and post only to accumulate &quot;likes.&quot; (I didn&#039;t bother with the argument that there&#039;s nothing wrong with &quot;show and tell&quot; or likes, because I wanted to meet him on his own terms.)</p><p><br /></p><p>In the end, he did backtrack:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Thanks for all who expressed their diverse views on this subject, and again, I am sorry my overly simplistic and blunt comments caused any chagrin for coin collectors that should otherwise be enjoying a hobby (or profession for some) that we hold in common.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I think that&#039;s the best I could hope for, and I&#039;m happy to let things rest there. Sometimes, arguing like a lawyer can actually work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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