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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3241842, member: 46237&quot;](The below quote and other posts - I&#039;m not going to quote them all here.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The more people there are, the more dumb people there are. The percentage of dumb people online is not fundamentally higher than you would see at an event, it&#039;s just that the internet makes a high volume of people accessible to you very quickly, so it can appear that way.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many people out there having an overwhelmingly positive experience in numismatics on the internet. As with the use of any tool, the quality of your experience is based on <i>your</i> knowledge and skill.</p><p><br /></p><p>The difference between numismatic interactions at events and on the internet is in how well you control and limit those interactions to people that have quality information and coins. You are very good at this in person. By your own admission, you have learned what shows and auctions to attend, where to go while at an event, and whom to speak with. I&#039;m sure that&#039;s a skill that took decades to hone. Likewise, learning how to have an equivalent experience with numismatics on the internet takes a lot of time.</p><p><br /></p><p>On top of that, those that cling to an outdated and unyielding concept of privacy like yourself are going to have a really poor user experience on the internet. The expectation of privacy itself is a relatively modern and <i>evolving</i> concept. For the vast majority of human existence, an expectation of privacy did not exist in the form we have today, even pre-internet. That you are clinging to a 30 year old snapshot of what privacy used to be seems a rather odd thing to be proud of.</p><p><br /></p><p>My mother has extremely poor experiences using email, and chalks them up to a vast conspiracy from &quot;the Google&quot; and other big companies trying to steal her information. The truth is, she&#039;s just not good at using email and doesn&#039;t have a modern understanding of privacy. And as you brought age into the discussion, her having 30 years on me is irrelevant. In this case, I had about a 20 year head start on her in learning the technology, and it was when I was young and it was easier to learn. The reason I have a positive experience with it and she does not is entirely due to the difference in skill.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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