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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldCoinLover, post: 791028, member: 4336&quot;]Pro: Everyone can learn alot of information from online forums. I think because of online forums people have sharpened their grading skills, their counterfeit detection skills, learning how to spot whizzed/cleaned coins, learning how to detect altered coins. The list goes on and on. There is a wealth of information out there. I have learned alot since </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I have joined the coin forums , if it wasn&#039;t for that (and the information contained in on what sources good books were to buy) I would not have learned near as much. The atmostsphere is great too, people are more than willing to help out if you have a question. I think people should ask questions, there is no &quot;stupid&quot; question and people learn from their mistakes. Take the advice given to you and learn from your mistakes. Learn what books are good to buy. Post your experiences on what your favorite coins are, your experiences at the coin show. I think the internet has really opened the flood gates per se on information, you can look up anything these days on coins you want to.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Cons:</p><p>The cons to internet forums. There are sometimes people who come and &quot;troll&quot; the forums, or in other words don&#039;t want to listen or take people&#039;s advice and just are there not to learn. Worse is when people don&#039;t listen to the advice given. I once was like that....I would argue with people, insult people, it never really gets you anywhere. Critism itself hurts one sense of pride, there is nothing worse than having someone not want to help you. If you don&#039;t have something nice to say, don&#039;t say anything at all. Ignore the thread, move on. Try and make some helpful posts once in awhile, contribute. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Try and help other people for the fun of it, to realize that even though that person might not have posted a message in that thread you spent hours working on, but has read it and remembered something helpful, hopefully to improve theirselves. If we make a thread and it gets no responses, but one person has learned one thing from it and remembered it, then we can see that that thread was helpful.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the contest and this was a good idea to spark some creatism in coin collecting..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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