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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Seattlite86, post: 3570405, member: 59737&quot;]You’re clearly not understanding what EVERYONE keeps telling you. No matter whether you say you “think” or “wait for experts” you are tossing out wild guesses that demonstrate to those who know what they’re talking about that you have no idea what you are saying. You seem to suggest doubling in almost every post, and this time you gave an opinion that even my wife would know to be wrong. In doing this, you risk putting false notions of a coin being worth a certain amount of money or having a certain amount of rarity. </p><p><br /></p><p>Look how hard it is to convince you that you’re doing a bad thing. You’re not listening to anybody and instead going by what you want. We get a lot of people that come through here convinced they have something special. Even when all the experts tell them it’s not, they don’t listen (much like you’re not listening). All it takes is one person to say what they want to hear: “I THINK it’s a XYZ” and then they will never believe otherwise. </p><p>They might go buy the coin that they were unsure of purchasing for way more than it’s worth, they might make financial decisions believing they are about to make a lot of money. And at the very least, they will walk away from here thinking something about numismatics is true, that isn’t. Your wild guessing is BAD for the hobby. You claim to care about the hobby and about errors, so show it by continuing to learn and stop tossing out random guesses.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Instead of throwing out wild guesses try “I’m not 100% sure if it’s what I think it is, so I’ll wait on others’ opinions”. I use that one when I think someone has a legitimate error, but don’t know for sure. This way I’m not putting an idea in their mind, that I’m not able to take out. This way, you can still provide helpful links, you can still participate in the conversation, and you can still learn from the experts. </p><p><br /></p><p>Please stop for a moment and think of how your advice could be damaging for others, especially for people who know even less than you do. There’s a reason so many of us are telling you the same thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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