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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;OldGoldGuy, post: 2137391, member: 72697&quot;]Funny you should ask. I didn&#039;t realize it when I typed that statement that the OP is a mod as well. Which is my fault, I knew he was yesterday, the day before that, I just took him as simply the OP in this thread and forgot his request to not diagnose and in turn tell the forgers, was that of of a moderator. </p><p><br /></p><p>Keep in mind my belief is that silencing free speech (even on this site diagnosing the coins flaws wouldn&#039;t be breaking a forum rule) is criminal in nature. Being a private site, it is just bad policy, but not much forum members can do about it. And you are right, TWO MODERATORS think that by diagnosing a counterfeit coins flaws would be assisting the forgers; and that bringing that knowledge to this sites members is less important; <i>which basically adheres less to the purpose of this site.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>If a moderator thinks that the forgers are going to learn how to perfect their craft from CoinTalk, that suggests a very, extremely, incorrect view of reality. You can dress it up as &quot;your opinion&quot; but that is ridiculous. If your &quot;opinion&quot; of our sun was that it is green in color, well, your opinion would be WRONG bossman. </p><p><br /></p><p>When I think of a moderator, I think of an unbiased party, whose goals should be to have a forum reflect the sites original or current intent. In this case, the study and increasing of numismatic knowledge. Spin it however you want, by not informing your members, or allowing, or REQUESTING, or AGREEING with that &quot;do not identify policy,&quot; you are allowing your members to potentially be ripped off. What, you thought this was the forgers best and final iteration unless his mistakes were caught by him/her on CoinTalk? And now you&#039;re bringing them out of retirement by identifying the flaws to allow them to sharpen it up a little bit more for version 2.0? No. No. No Man. </p><p><br /></p><p>As Costanza would say:</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;THE EGO!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>On a side note, after reading some comments of those that had issue with the &quot;gag order&quot; I have nothing bad to say about the Dutchman. I find his threads and comments to be well worth the read, especially the &quot;Look What Walked Into The Shop&quot; one. However, owning a business outside of the CoinTalk family of business entities, and being a moderator for a numismatic site DOES seem like it is approaching, crowding, hovering on, brushing, etc, the line.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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