I am not aware of any serious card conservation efforts. Who is out there doing work to preserve cards that will otherwise disintegrate because of their paper?
If the alteration made and the history of the card are disclosed when auctioned, it's probably not all that bad. If it needs to be covered up that the card used to be a PSA 4 before it was an 8 and what was done to it, it's probably bad. It's not really that difficult.
Other collectibles grade altered items separately, and denote that it was done. This is is not all what our alterers and scammers are doing here.
Probably belongs in the "what has changed since you started?" thread, but not that long ago everybody at least paid lip service to the idea that alteration needed to be disclosed and fraud was bad. Now, we have regular posters whose majority of posts are shilling for a fraud ring or explaining why it is okay. I can't see how this is a good shift for anyone but the practitioners of it.
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