Relentless Negativity

[TyrusRCobb]

Originally Posted by shelly

I have taken more bashing than I think anyone on this site. Yes a Felon but in the near future many of the people that you thought where Gods will join me in that title.. As Truman said" if you cant take the heat get out the kitchen." As for Ty Cobb. Who was the first person when asked told you that the Williams and the Koufax where both bad. if you where insulted that I could not get over your total obsessin with a ball cube then I am sorry You on the other hand came at me and Chris like we poisned you food. So don't ever be afraid to come on here. It seems you know just what to do when your feelings are hurt.
As for the rest of the people that are offended by what takes place here so am
Bill you are right this site was a great place for people to learn. I am proud that I hold the title to the longest thread in the history of net 54.It never would have happened if it wasn't for so many people coming together for a very important cause. We might not have all agreed but that was not important.
Last but not least. How many of you that posted on this thread are guilty of what you know say is relentless negativity.

not horrible as stated before.

Shelly, as I stated in my post, I attacked you having never met you and was ashamed for doing so. I'm really not that type of person. Please accept my sincere apology.
Adam

[shelly]

Ty, no problem. like I said everyone on here is out to help you not hurt you. Just tell us what you need and you will find a whole lot of people come out of the woodwork to help.

Shelly

[drc]

I thought recently this board hadn't been so bad. Some non-negative threads right now. Duly note that relentless negativity gets old fast with me, so I'm not someone with a high threshold for it. I wouldn't say I thought it was "not so bad recently" if I didn't think it.

I believe the reasons this was separated from the memorabilia board was because both there were a plethora of bad auction threads (with some arguments) and two there were more autograph threads than non-autograph. So part was the popularity of the autograph topic.

Clearly, people come to this forum for opinions on their autographs (they often specifically ask for opinions on their autographs), so authenticity opinions seem to an integral part of the the forum.

There are long fights and controversies on the card forum too (see the recent Goldin and Heritage threads), though they seem to be more spread out between harmless informational topics.

I think it would be nice to see some interesting informational threads and such, as opposed to just the latest scams and forgeries. One nice thing about about the card forum is there are regular threads on that order.

[slidekellyslide]

For those of us outside of the autograph hobby, but semi-interested in what goes on in here, it's a sideshow. I like all of the participants even though it's clear that some of them really detest each other. I think all of them have the same end goal of making this a safer hobby, but they tend to focus on different aspects of the bad side of the hobby and they take it to a personal level.

As a moderator I tried in vain to mediate some of what was going on when it was on the memorabilia side...I've completely given up that effort since the move and that may be why it seems even more negative.

[shelly]

Dan, if people just learned that not everyone is going to agree with what is said. This site will come back to where it belongs.