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08-20-2012, 02:00 PM
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Having just come back to this forum after an absence of a couple years, it seems everyone forgot the longest thread in history - the famous Morales-Frangipani epic of, I believe, 2010 or so. It helped fuel an FBI investigation that reaped great benefits and vindicated a fine dealer who had become a crook's victim.
Yes, there is an awful lot of mud-slinging here with people who have the same aim in the hobby attacking each other because they've aligned themselves with different "good guys". Who wins? Nobody....but the forgers. Sure, the topic of frauds and forgers could be dropped entirely and the forum could become just "sweetness and light" - until the next giant fraud is exposed and everyone kicks themselves. Maybe just a little more self-control and a little less needling is all that's really needed. 
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08-20-2012, 02:06 PM
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Maybe Leon can start another forum called Mudslinging forum so these guys that want to call each other names and cut each other down can do it without bringing the rest of us down with them. I think it would have about 3 members that come to mind right off the top of my head.
Keith Last edited by keithsky; 08-20-2012 at 02:09 PM.
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08-20-2012, 02:32 PM
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Nothing wrong with outing frauds. It's good for everyone to know who is selling fakes and what to stay away from. That's what I liked about the recent Drew Max thread. A board member carefully broke down what to look for in a baseball fabricated to look vintage.
However, in that thread certain board members also took the opportunity to relentlessly insult each other for another 4 or 5 pages, which is what, 50 posts? And by the time they put their rulers away the valuable information was buried. There is such a thing as people doing more harm than good. Whenever I see a few posters in a thread I tend to avoid it without even reading whats going on. I'm sure I'm not alone. Last edited by packs; 08-20-2012 at 02:39 PM.
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08-20-2012, 02:37 PM
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Also, there are a lot of "experts" on here that like to share their opinions about whether an autograph is real or not. Why would you share your collection if you can expect a few people to chime in about how the signature doesn't look right to them?
Probably comes with the territory, but could you imagine if every time you showed a T206 card on the forum that two or three people were like, "Looks trimmed to me" or "Lettering seems off, might be a reprint". No one would share any more. And it would discourage collecting.
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08-20-2012, 03:07 PM
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Would You Say It To Their Face?
Leon has the right idea in making people post full names in these mud slinging contests. However, "Joe Blow" in Texas calling "Harry Hinkle" in Boston doesn't cut it with me. Don't say anything on here you WOULDN'T SAY TO A PERSON FACE TO FACE. If this rule was followed the negativity would greatly decrease and some of the phony "self-appointed" hobby saviors would disappear like the hot air some of them are. But then again the moon might touch the earth tonight if that happened.
Martin Green
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08-20-2012, 03:39 PM
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I joined this forum in late July and found that the vast majority of people very helpful indeed. However, I also felt attacked buy a few members. Perhaps they found my newbie questions and lack of knowledge annoying, I'm not sure. I even responded to such a post by hurling insults at a man I've never met, it was an embarrassing act on my part. Since that post I've written a two line response to a Bob Feller image which was posted and I posted an image in response to a poster's question. Frankly, being new and lacking knowledge, I don't want to post because I don't want to be attacked again.
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08-20-2012, 05:18 PM
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I belong to several collectible forums and this one is hands down filedl with so much constant nastiness and anger. I have been attacked for asking simple newbie questions. I have developed friendships with certain members who have been amazing in asking my questions but I really wish that there was more helpful people and less angry and insulting ones. Certain posters I know (and talk to privately) refrain from posting much because of all the mud slinging and that;s a shame. Any person who uses profane language, insults or brings forth something that could be considered detrimental to the site should get the boot until they can play nice with others.
Regards, Larry
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08-20-2012, 04:38 PM
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08-20-2012, 04:51 PM
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