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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3446265, member: 112&quot;]I agree - to a point. But the problem is one has to know a whole lot before one can even judge IF a source is &quot;qualified&quot;. There are a great many books, articles and so forth, written by some of the most well known names in numismatics that contain bad information. But if one does not know enough to recognize bad information when you see it, one will not ever know it is bad information !</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There was time many years ago in the early days of the internet when I belonged to and participated on just about every coin forum there was. Many of them ones that most of you would never have even heard of, many if not most of them don&#039;t even exist anymore. But one day, a guy I knew sent me an email. And he said to me, Doug, I was doing a search the other day and your name came up everywhere. Everywhere I looked, all the different forums, someplace in there you were posting answers to people&#039;s questions. So tell me, why do you do that ? I mean it&#039;s gotta be a lot of work to do that, why do you take the time to do it ?</p><p><br /></p><p>My answer to him, because somebody needs to. People are asking questions, looking for help and information, and if I can give it to them, I will because nobody else is doing it. Or at least not giving them accurate information.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not a lot different on this forum. I&#039;d bet a lot that if I&#039;ve responded to posts and questions about how to properly clean a coin that if I&#039;ve responded once I&#039;ve responded at least 500 times. It&#039;s pretty easy to do that over a period of 16 years. And that&#039;s just one question. I&#039;ll bet I&#039;ve posted about 5 or 6 times just in the past few days. I&#039;ve answered the same questions, all different questions but each one so many times I can&#039;t even begin to count how many of them there were ! </p><p><br /></p><p>Does it get old, frustrating ? You bet it does. It&#039;s gonna wear on anybody and everybody. So why keep on doing it ? Same reason I said above, because somebody needs to. It&#039;s just that simple. And even though I haven&#039;t collected coins in what, going on 13 years now - I&#039;m still doing it because somebody has to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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