Enough with the hostility...

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

To paraphrase Chairman Mao, card collecting is not a tea party. Nothing wrong with a little ego and attitude in my opinion.

Ha, maybe it bit naive of me.. There's probably a fair amount of room for ego in just about anything from politics to picking fruit. I guess I just don't derive any of my ego from cards... This being greatly aided by the fact that NO one else in my immediate circle collects, so I'm generally alone in this thing.

Originally Posted by Matthew H

I was a part of the oil painting thread and can give you specific reasons for my post. The auctioneer who started the thread, in my opinion, seems to hype auctions even more than the usual. It wasn't a bad thing, again in my opinion, to chop down the idea that it was somehow a prominent painting of Cy Young. I could already see the auction description in my head.
-Matt

Sorry, I may have jumped the gun a little to use that example, since I clearly don't know the whole story behind your's or maybe others' comments on that thread. I guess in general (any thread/post) what stands out to me more are the times when it seems responders are just piling on someone. Especially when it's someone causing no harm or foul to anyone else. Another instance comes to mind, a guy simply asking for something and gets 7-8 smart ass comments back. Maybe it's an empty request, and I've got no problem with sarcasm and good humor (I love the Judd Apatow/Seth Rogan movies as much as the next guy). In my mind the first and 2nd are harmless, maybe even funny, but the 5th, 6th and on get old, especially when saying basically the same thing. But worse, the 5th, 6th and 7th make some guy feel like he's swimming in a sea of sharks. Whether the responders are right or not, I think there's no need to keep kicking someone while down.