Posted By:
JoeKudos to E, Daniel:
"....accept that you are playing a game in which every participant has their role and enjoy it..........or else smash up the slabs and go birthday suit."
Hooray for the rational thought! The point is, you either accept the concept of grading or you don't. Of course the opinions of authenticators will differ by degrees. Time discussing this, as E, Daniel further points out, is time wasted.
The OTHER thing you either accept or don't is the idea that this whole shebang is on the up and up. Now, THIS is something worth discussing. When differences in degrees mean dollars, the possibility of corruption and fraud are very real. Overgrading AND undergrading for profit have probably occurred a few more times than once.