seanfingh

I have 8

Not since 2007-8

POTUSOA and Cake - it feels like 1995 up in this piece!

+1 OK...I was just trying to flesh out what the formulaic approach would look like. Remember, a few pages back I elaborated a less formulaic approach, which was criticized for being too subjective. So, too much subjectivity is a problem, and too much of a formulaic approach is a problem. So, we're back to the line drawing problem...where to draw the line, in particular. Understood. With several hundred participants it will likely be impossible to please everyone. I just wanted to give my input while I was on here.

Under the structure below, an individual PL nominator would not need to bear the burden of protecting the rest of the community before removing the person from the PL...that's not intended by the scope of the PL process, anyway. Rather, if there were 2 other aggrieved parties, they could/should have separately nominated Adonis to the PL, and he would have hit his 3 strikes, requiring placement on the HoS and community vote removal. Seems cleaner. I appreciate all of your efforts, I really do, but making this thing a "mathematical formula" is the wrong way to go.

This would be awesome for entertainment and LTPC points, but it will never happen.

This is not the first time in this discussion that those who voted in the affirmative on the poll have been referred to as possibly acting out of emotion more so than reason. I agree and share the concern about a rush to judgement based more on emotion than on facts. However, when I read comments from vetern members refering to a nomination to the HOS as an 'accusation of murder', an induction into the HOS as 'a death sentence', and both the candidates and members of the HOS as 'the worst of the worst' - in my opinion that is equally emotionalizing the process. I understand that that 'accusation of murder' is illustrative hyperbole. Still, the issues we're discussing here are no where near that serious so there's really no need to go there. The HOS is not 'a death sentence'. It doesn't stop a member from posting on the boards. And as long as there's cooperative buyers and sellers, it doesn't even stop a member from posting in the Marketplace. Solarcadet1 proved that. Some may imagine that the HOS is the worst that can happen to a member but it really isn't. If anything is comparable to 'a death sentence' it would be banning and none of us have a say in that. Nowhere in the guidelines for the HOS does it mention 'the worst of the worst'. It simply mentions serious transgressions as well as a degree of recidivism. Again, I understand the concern over rushed, well-meaning but slightly over-zealous nominations diluting the significance of the HOS. However, I think the interjecting of these extreme negative qualifiers doesn't really help the process either. It used to be a buying and selling death sentence. There were no more transactions until they created shills and tried to come back. solarcadet is the perfect example. He was put in the HoS for being a raging a-hole. Since he never screwed anyone in a classic HoS manner, he was still beloved by his crew of variant sourcers. The HoS is changing, loosening up, becoming something it wasn't before. That is fine, and that is how things work over time. Please don't try to retrofit something i said - "a buying and selling death sentence" - into something that wasn't intended or implied. I don't appreciate it.

To everyone trying to logic the HOS, don't bother, the last several have been pure lynch mob mentality - red rocks, symbiotic, solarcadet, HusTruck. They are all huge d-bags, but not what has historically been HOS. There is a movement to make the HOS something it hasn't historically been. That movement is winning. Institutions change over time. Trying to make everything fit into the same box will not work. This seems to be the dynamic that is causing a lot of consternation.

Some people do and some don't. Most of the n00bs who come in and act crazy, I put on ignore. Otherwise I will forget. Right after the 2012 image speculation pop, the number burgeoned . . .

Daddy was busy. Sorry kid. Is this one of those "little bombs"? I have no idea. Unlike Sean, I do not believe this to be a valid question. I responded accordingly. It is valid because it is fairly easy to Monday morning quarterback a Friday night lynch mob.

Daddy was busy. Sorry kid. You are not the daddy.

Valid question. The last several HOS nominations have been because the nominees acted like steel-belted douchevalves. It's very easy to say yes, because they are so unsavory.

If you are willing to be the guy who puts together what is effectively the death penalty for forum sales, you better be ready to take the heat.

I read it as he went back and put the I'll take it in the thread while all of the PMing is going on. If it went down the way you describe it, I would agree with you. There is no harm in asking, and if the answer is no, you send him the Paypal.

This is in the sales thread. And should probably be discussed here, if at all. This is not intended as a shot at you, Jerome, and I apologize if you take it that way. But a seller shouldn't have to put everything on hold and do all kinds of gyrations while a buyer is asking questions or negotiating. While a buyer is negotiating or asking questions, if someone, whether by PM or otherwise, takes it, with no qualifications, they get it. Unless there are other more specific instructions in the initial thread. Unfortunately, most people say "usual terms apply" which has as much meaning as "muskrat pablum Asmodeus." You dropping an "I'll Take it" in the thread while you are negotiating is confusing, as no one should be expected to monitor their sales threads constantly in real time. I firmly believe that the risk of loss should always be placed upon the person who is negotiating or asking questions - if they don't want to bear the risk of loss, they should pop the BIN unequivocally.

Yep. The only mistake I made was cutting in a couple of dipsticks on the action.

That is amazing. The 10 I got was in my first modern sub - a squarebound - Batman: The Cult #1. Copper/Modern squarebounds are, IMO, the best way to sub a mint.

Calling something a raw 9.9 has no basis in reality. You can say that you believe it is a 9.9 based upon whatever grading scale you are using. But equating that to CGC giving it a 9.9 is nothing but speculation, with one exception - when you are getting books that have had very little handling directly from a fresh case. I have submitted 5 9.9s and a 10 in 10 years of subbing books. The only ones that I legitimately thought, "wow, these are amazing and may be better than 9.8" were the Cursed Pirate Girls I got directly out of the distributor box from Jeremy Bastian. On the other hand I have subbed dozens and dozens of 9.8s that I was positive had a legit shot at Mint or Gem Mint. And one that got a 9.6, but that one got sketched on.

I'll take some of that action.

I have never seen them in the same place together

You are one super smelly b-hole.

I love Beta Ray and Ti Asha Ra but Gunn has stated that Beta Ray is not in the collector's collection in Knowhere so I am not sure why he's trending higher. Does everything have to be about a movie? Can't a good book get some heat for being a good book? I think it can, but when talking about overprinted books from 25 years ago, its hard to think suddenly a new generation will suddenly think NFL All-pro is a great read and cause a flurry of new buyers. I agree on NFL All-pro and the like, but this is a classic that deserves the love. It's NFL Super-Pro.

I had a non-collecting friend send me a text about the character. I told him I didn't think she had been in the comics.