Relentless Negativity

[TyrusRCobb]

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.

[David Atkatz]

Keep on posting, Adam. (The image of the Eddie Bennett-signed ball was very useful. Do you own it?)

[JimStinson]

Interesting thread here and I like it , I was away for the weekend and was not going to post much because I too felt that there started to involve negative issues and comments , There were a couple of times that even my own attempts at levity in hindsight seemed ill mannered and ill timed.
The best thing I can add to this thread is what the late George Sanders said to me once. George and Helen used to put out all the autograph price guides and he had been a celebrity in his own right having his own radio show and had personally met and interviewed and gotten the autographs of Dr. Martin Luther King, JFK, everyone that was anyone in the 1950's and 1960's. I would usually write the introduction on Baseball autographs for his books. I was also doing free lance writing on sports in general and autographs in particular and he told me this

"People will want to hear about the NEGATIVE side of collecting, Don;t give it to them. If you can't write anything good about the hobby don't write NOTHING at all because There is MORE than enough good to go around and if you wrote from now until you couldn;t write anymore about NOTHING but the positive experiences you've had in autograph collecting you STILL would not have time to write about all of it"

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by David Atkatz

Keep on posting, Adam. (The image of the Eddie Bennett-signed ball was very useful. Do you own it?)

Wrong Adam; I don't even know who Eddie Bennett is.

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Wrong Adam; I don't even know who Eddie Bennett is.

He meant Adam Phillips who posts as TyrusRCobb, you moron.

[Big Dave]

This is the kind of garbage this thread is referring to. Was there any reason whatsoever to include..."you moron." ...in your response?

Originally Posted by Kawika

He meant Adam Phillips who post as TyrusRCobb, you moron.

[keithsky]

Well that didn't last very long before it started again.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Big Dave

This is the kind of garbage this thread is referring to. Was there any reason whatsoever to include..."you moron." ...in your response?

Adam and David are good hobby friends. It was tongue in cheek, guaranteed. Ya' just have to know David (which I am happy to say I do) to know what he said is so far outside of his norm that it was a joke.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Leon

Adam and David are good hobby friends. It was tongue in cheek, guaranteed. Ya' just have to know David (which I am happy to say I do) to know what he said is so far outside of his norm that it was a joke.

Yeah, I figured it was a joke; David and I spent some quality time at the bar together in BAL. And I will be the first to cop to the occasional brain fart. Besides, no one ever takes anything David McD says seriously anyway

[TyrusRCobb]

Originally Posted by David Atkatz

Keep on posting, Adam. (The image of the Eddie Bennett-signed ball was very useful. Do you own it?)

Thanks Doc. I wish the ball was mine! Having read the OP I did some searching and found the image.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by TyrusRCobb

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.

Many of us have been there. Live and learn, but keep posting.

(BTW-sometimes it is newbie questions and your actually HAVING knowledge - it can threaten the old-timers and they end up resorting to spraying the walls with their scent.)