AutographDiva wrote:vivalakayla wrote:Gunners12345678 wrote:
You are disgusting, go complain elsewhere. Just leave, this website is awesome!
How is she disgusting? That's incredibly rude.
Just a small example of what I was talking about. There is a lot of good on this site. I have also seen a lot of actual FANS of artists that have successes that they are SO elated to receive to only be crushed by unkind posters. My thought is this, if you are collecting for fan-ship and not profit, is it really necessary for these comments. There are collectors out there that do collect for the right reasons. I just find it silly to sit through 3+ pages of "this is a fake", "this is a preprint" etc. when it is not asked for. I would assume that people whom have collected even for short amounts of time, can use online resources to validate authenticity if so needed or wanted. If they can not do so, great...ask and be prepared for honest results (opinions). What is bothersome is when people take a success from an obviously elated individual and crush that for no reason. I myself stopped posting successes because of this type of behavior. Being that so many others are following suit, what resources will really be left of this site once everyone has a bad taste in their mouths from a few bad users. It can be like it was before when this was not an issue. Obviously the system works and would be more beneficial to everyone without the negativity. Be kind to one another is all I am saying.
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How can you "crush" someone who is happy at having a fake? If I had received something and was delighted with it, yeah I would be disappointed to find this out, but if it's a fake I would want to know. Some people don't present that correctly, but the levels of stupidity displayed on this forum sometimes are difficult not to respond to. Again, think about what you're saying... it's a public forum which is free to join, with no age restrictions. As such there will be immature people, there will be inexperienced people. It's the nature of the beast. The system, as you call it, works because people point out what is what, and are honest about it. I've got a shedload of experience, and I know a lot about this collecting lark... I have to because if I sell fakes, then it comes back to bite me in the butt. I have weaknesses, like USA sports etc, but others have that level of expertise and will post to that effect. Someone will inevitably lead to arguments, but again... that debate is part of the internet. Everyone has an opinion, some informed, some not. But if you think this is bad, check out some sports forums!
The most pertinent line in the above post though was without doubt "I myself stopped posting successes because of this type of behavior". It's your call if you don't want to post your successes, but given your post history shows a plea for help with international postage issues, arrogantly accusing a young man who is doing his best to use autographing for a charitable endeavour, and this rather spectacular post in the wrong forum section, I have to wonder why you are bothering posting this. I presume you're lurking in the background, taking what information you can get and not posting anything, again this is cool... hell you don't even have to register to read this forum, but if you're not going to put anything in, it somewhat undermines your ability to take the moral high ground on what others post. If you don't want to scroll through three pages of discussions (and again yes, I agree much of it borders on the ridiculous if not smashes straight through it and out the other side), then don't read them. Either skip them, or block the posters you don't want to read posts from and voila! I frequently see a line on pages I read along the lines of "This post was made by DiamondDave who is currently on your ignore list". It's fabulous, I don't have to put up with his trolling, and I have applied the same option to many others.
And no, I don't think your comment was "disgusting" as one other poster put it, and I don't think there was any need for them to make that comment. I'm with you on that 100%, but the rest... you're ranting for the sake of it, repeating what many others have said, and basically wasting your time in doing it.
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