Posted By:
Jim VBRuss,
With all due respect, I think you're off base. This board can mean a lot of different things to different people. That's part of what makes it so good. Some people have been in the hobby for many years. Others are new to it. One isn't better or worse than the other. Just different.
I do understand your frustration with questions that have answers that are seemingly easy to find or look up. But I don't ever think of those people as "idiots". I think of them as people, newer to the hobby, who may not know about all of the resources available in this day and age. I also think of them as the people I may NEED someday, when I decide to sell my collection. I would hate to have a potential customer quit the hobby because they got treated poorly on a message board. (I'm not insinuating that Bernie is "new", but I sense your frustration is with others on the board also.)
Give these posters a break and just skip the thread if it bothers you.
Now... You want my pet peeves?
I get ticked by people who come on the B/S/T looking to buy and then don't respond to your email.
I hate it when you respond to a post with a list of what you have available and the "buyer" starts trimming his list, because he can't afford to make the purchase.
And I hate it when you buy a card, it arrives and it has been severely overgraded. But I especially don't like it when that seller doesn't respond to your emails after the fact. (The seller knows who I am talking about.)
But none of them are enough to start calling people "idiots."