For all the Copper Hoarders

Not really. With all due respect thanks for the clarification. I have been on several forums (automobile groups, car club president, and administrator of an automobile research and development forum).
Each is different. One forum (Shelby-Dodge Mailing List) the sole moderator lives in Australia and it takes a day to shut down a thread!
You took the time here to reply, and you did ask the above question.
My reply (please do not take it with offense):

For most of us this is a hobby not life or death. Nobody is going to jump out of the computer screen and
slit someone's throat. These are just words we are dealing with.
Objectives of most collectors are the same. For most this is therapeutic recreation. Most are seeking the least restrictive format with the least intervention; which is most conducive to learning.
My point? Why not let discussion run a little longer?
Everyone has their own style of leadership. Of the 3 styles (autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire)
the last one laissez-faire alows for the most learning and group involvement. This forum is run in the Autocratic style. This directive style is the least conducive to learning.
Thank you. Of course none of this is any of my business. But you did ask if any other way would be silly. No it would not. Sometimes the best lessons are learned by letting discussion run it's full course.

 

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And on this forum that is entirely possible for any non-porn subject.

Any thread that is closed because it has become a flame war, or its content has otherwise wandered off the numismatic-related path, can be immediately reopened in either the General Discussion (GD) or Politics, Religion & World Events (PRWE) forum, as appropriate.

Neither personal attacks on other members, remarks (pro or con) about political or religious figures, nor the other things that might get a thread closed in the numismatic forums, have any educational value about numimatics.

Furthermore, thread closing is usually a last resort after warnings and/or removal of specific postings.

 

Moderating a forum has nothing to do with leadership AND it is incorrect to describe the moderation of this forum as autocratic. Frankly, I don't want to come in here and be assualted by good doer political types flooding their political views all over the coin forums.
Its being moderated just fine. And what caused that other thread to be closed would have had no educational value or entertainment value.

Ruben

 

How can you say it has nothing to do with leadership? And if not autocratic, how would you describe it?
Other than the 2 above questions, I'll refrain from further comment. I already spoke my piece and I am sticking to it.

 

Victor
As the other Moderators have already said---we are just members given a guildline to go by and we must use our best judgment when it comes to such things as locking a thread.

I for one came to this forum because of the rules----other forums have rules such as you are talking about where Moderators must get permission to close such a thread and they don't lock threads and those forums have more cussing and bashing then most people can stand----there is a reason why CoinTalk is one of the largest and best forums around---and there is a reason why when members join CT they stay and are helpful---I think its the rules and the way the forum is run.

I knew of a forum once that had a thread that had gotten to name calling and such---a Moderator locked it before asking permission and when others disagreed it was unlocked---talk about putting salt in a wound---it got really bad and worse of all it gave all members an edge on the Moderator IMHO---if he made a call such as locking a thread or editing a post they would all gang up on him and try to get it back....

I'm not really trying to answer all of your questions---I'm trying to show why I and many others like CoinTalk the way it is and why such rules are used.

Speedy

 

If people melt down all the pennys, The Lincoln Memorial sets will be worth a lot of money.

 

Probably not, with all the billions that were made, after all, the Roosevelt dimes, in silver, were made in far fewer numbers and were melted in large numbers, and are still not worth a lot of money.