As a skilled baiter, you wrap interesting topics in easily-refuted and sensationalized claims. For example, the title says that you “refuse to buy” any graded vintage card that’s a 7 cert or higher because of possible altering. Any cursory look through your post history reveals not only a significant number of 7-cert and higher vintage cards you’ve purchased, but also claims of other certs or items you allegedly don’t want but seem to purchase.
Beyond this, the post itself begs for an argument rather than a discussion. Instead of discussing the growing prevalence of altering, you wrap this up in a refusal to buy any 7-cert or higher vintage card. This extreme position (which as evidenced above you don’t actually subscribe to) baits people into refuting the sensationalism (e.g. not all newly graded cards are altered, altering might not start at the 7 certs exactly, be careful where you buy your cards).
Thankfully most of E4 has avoided the obvious bait of arguing over your collection contents and the sensationalized claims in order to discuss the more interesting implication of your post, which is the implications of increased card altering and whether buying cards graded before this phenomenon may be helpful for those who want to avoid altered cards.
I hope that if you want to keep participating on E4, you avoid this style of posting. This thread is proof that you can start an interesting conversation and you don’t need sensationalism or bait in order to do it.