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Originally Posted by Exhibitman
A screed/rant:
I am tired of the relentless negativity on this particular forum. This is the only section of the N54 site where I consistently go away feeling like abandoning my collecting. I am by no means a pollyannaish collector who advocates hiding one's head in the sand. There are definitely problems, big ones, in the autograph field, and exposing them is useful, but the consistent, almost gleeful, running down of the hobby that I see here is annoying to say the least. It seems that the forum has morphed into a [primarily] negative gripe space where the only things some posters want to talk about are frauds, fakes and scammers. I am not saying one must be a cheerleader for the hobby to post here, but I do believe that anyone whose feelings about the hobby are so strongly and consistently negative ought to quit and be done with it rather than constantly flogging the many dead horse topics that are repeated on this forum ad nausem.
That's all; resume whining.
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I did abandon the collecting because of it....the real hobby is following all the stupid B.S. here, there & everywhere. I still feel the need to share most of what I learned (not much) and I don't even know why I bother sometimes. I guess i just like to watch as the hobby circles the drain.