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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bambam8778, post: 3331293, member: 80341&quot;]I&#039;ll stick up for some of the you tubers for a moment here. I started collecting a long time ago and really had no direction or drive. Off and on as the story is with so many of us. What has gotten me hooked again and this time for good was watching you tube videos from many different people AND being here on Coin Talk. There are some very poor quality channels and advice out there. No arguments there. There are some great channels who are purely informative and then there are the ones who have a plethora of different things to catch your attention. These people can be spot on for 99.9% of the time and the keyboard warriors will remember and consistently attack the .1% they were wrong. I can even claim to be a keyboard warrior from time to time but I try to give people the benefit of the doubt. If you are creating a youtube channel, a blog, a podcast or a forum there is ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with wanting to monetize this and make it work for you. Nothing at all. Links to things you are selling, charging people to access a site that you have made, charging to offer advice, selling ad space for relative information. All of this is rather smart when it comes to the social side of coin collecting.</p><p>I love to listen to JBCoins and Blue Ridge Silver hound when they give a market update with something that recently sold on Heritage or one of the major shows. I really enjoy when they bring up an oddball find or throw out some info on a modern that I may have forgotten about. I follow the ANA &amp; PCGS. Both have great information and talks to listen to. Market updates and the like. I like to watch Quinn&#039;s Coins from time to time and get lost in a coin hunt while I&#039;m hunting through my rolls. Silver Picker is one of the most upbeat guys that deals with coins/silver/picking and the like that I have found. Has some good info on there and really pumps people up to want to be in the realm of all of this and participate. I love to watch his videos!</p><p>What it boils down to is that young people/old people and everyone else in-between that we want to be in the hobby need to be hooked and you can&#039;t do that by doing nothing. If youtube is what it takes to hook them then by all means, let it happen and do your part in this hobby to help inform people with bad knoweledge what they need to know and what is correct. You can be smart enough to take away from any of these channels a little bit of advice or enthusiasm and if you are turned off by watching 2 guys hunt 1/2 dollars for an hour or two it doesn&#039;t mean that it isn&#039;t good for the teenager who just discovered it. Remember, whomever got you in to the hobby didn&#039;t know everything and more than likely past on some bad advice to you at one point in time.</p><p>Grow within yourself and help grow the community.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Had to edit this and give a shout out to the guys who keep me company on my long commute to work. Coin Show Radio and Coin Week podcast)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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