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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1518980, member: 27832&quot;]Wait, what?</p><p><br /></p><p>This site is the most &quot;family-friendly&quot; one that I frequent. It&#039;s particularly gentle with posters who self-identify as young numismatists (YNs). With those who don&#039;t, it can be a bit more terse and skeptical -- but it&#039;s still sunshine and lollipops compared to most other discussion forums.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, this site would be <i>worthless</i> if the only comments it allowed were positive ones. When you show a coin to someone who&#039;s more knowledgeable than you, and they see that that coin has problems, what would you rather have them do: point out the problems, so that <i>you</i> can learn to <i>recognize them yourself</i>, or praise the coin and leave you with a false impression of its quality?</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree that it&#039;s a bit depressing and monotonous when coin postings are met with a chorus of &quot;harshly cleaned&quot;, &quot;probably fake&quot;, and so forth. But when harshly cleaned (and, for some issues, fake) coins greatly outnumber good specimens in the real world, it&#039;s sort of inevitable that a group of knowledgeable collectors will frequently call them as they see them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d hate to see your daughters get discouraged from collecting because of negative comments here or anywhere else. You&#039;re certainly doing the right thing by involving them; heck, I wish <i>my</i> parents had brought home gold coins, even if they were polished or removed from jewelry.</p><p><br /></p><p>But maybe you need to rethink this notion of letting your daughters read over your shoulder as you check online discussions about your coins. I don&#039;t know how old or how sheltered they are, but it sounds like they&#039;re less prepared to deal with negative comments than you are. I frequent a lot of sites that provide excellent information and though-provoking commentary, but with tone and language that I&#039;m not comfortable exposing kids to.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at some of the posts here from kids (YNs), or from parents who are specifically in this to help out their kids, I think you&#039;ll find a much gentler and more positive tone in general. If you add a note in your posts that &quot;you and your daughters&quot; are looking for comments, you may start to see a difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, yeah, the title question -- why do I post?</p><p><br /></p><p>1) I have questions, and there are folks here who know a lot more than I do.</p><p>2) Sometimes I know enough to answer questions myself.</p><p>3) It seems to work out better, in a variety of ways and for a variety of reasons, than face-to-face interaction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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