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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;omahaorange, post: 1506920, member: 28199&quot;]I&#039;m going to disagree with the original post.&nbsp; What, exactly, is the issue?&nbsp; I&#039;ve been here for a while now, and I have yet been <b>forced</b> to read any thread.&nbsp; I open threads and either read them through and respond, or simply close it and move on to the next one.&nbsp; I may only read the first post or two then realize it is either some rant in which I&#039;m not interested in, some crackpot just spewing dribble or boasting about a coin he does not have, some one who starts numerous inane threads through the course of the day, troll for fun, etc.&nbsp; I don&#039;t roll hunt, but I do browse this particular board to see finds and read the rants (some can be pretty entertaining).&nbsp; Same with the &quot;I hate eBay&quot; type threads.&nbsp; The nice thing about this particular message board is I can hover my cursor over the thread link and see the first few lines of the thread.&nbsp; If it interests me I open it.&nbsp; If it doesn&#039;t, I slide the mouse to the next thread.&nbsp; Unless the bandwidth or storage being used by these threads you rant about is a issue, I don&#039;t really see a problem.&nbsp; If it does, then the admins need to be the ones to handle it.&nbsp; But I&#039;m not having any real issues with the site, so I&#039;ll assume bandwidth and server space are not issues at this time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not everybody is internet-savvy.&nbsp; I originally found this board doing a Google search for coin-related information after receiving the stuff from my mother-in-law.&nbsp; I lurked for quite a while before actually registering and posting.&nbsp; I know how to use the internet and it&#039;s search functions, including the search on this site.&nbsp; <b>HOWEVER</b>, not everyone is an expert on the internet.&nbsp; Many of your grandmothers use the internet, but do they simply read web sites and exchange recipes and can they perform a search involving more than a page or two of results?&nbsp; My four year old granddaughter can access the internet and find her favorite pages with a little help, and from there play her favorite internet games on those sites.&nbsp; But she can&#039;t read yet, and couldn&#039;t possibly do a Google search (although she does like to say the word &quot;Google&quot;).&nbsp; These are but two extremes, most of us will fall somewhere in the middle.&nbsp; Some people find this site in the same manner I did, lurk, and wait for the right opportunity to post.&nbsp; Some find it, and can&#039;t wait to start asking questions.</p><p><br /></p><p>So give the newbies a break.&nbsp; We&#039;re not all IT experts.&nbsp; Some simply don&#039;t want to perform the search, but just jump in, join the fray, and interact.&nbsp; Some may not know the search function is even there.&nbsp; If you limit what can and can&#039;t be asked, you turn this into simply another web site.&nbsp; That&#039;s the beauty of an internet forum, you can interact with other people from different walks of life.&nbsp; In a real life conversation, if you don&#039;t like the subject matter, or disagree with the other party, you can argue, or simply excuse yourself and walk away.&nbsp; The same tactic is also appropriate here, and even easier to accomplish (simply click a link).</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, I would be willing to bet that a lot of the rant-type threads are started by members who have been here and posted for a while, rather than the new members.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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