agree 100%
i get to turn a profit AND avoid all face to face interactions.
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e-reader artwork is the best
Sun and Moon are the worst pokemon games
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Despite Sobble, Grookey and Scorbunny being amongst the best starters we’ve had, Rillaboom, Inteleon and Cinderace are amongst the worst Stage 2 starters we’ve had!
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This has been brought up before with the response something along the lines of “any way we do it will leave some people upset regardless, but we think this is the best way”
I agree, but it doesn’t seem like its gonna change anytime soon.
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We basically have two options:
Option A: Do not create a megathread. Any price or market-related thread is on its own, including whatshouldibuys and howdoistonks. Even before all the recent celebrity craziness the market topics were overwhelming and peoples collection threads, genuine questions, and important forum discussions were getting buried under an avalanche of “what’s the value of card x going to be in 5 years?” or “omg zord go stonk.” The forum was getting to be unreadable. If we did not have the Giant Market Thread I guarantee the forum would be unreadable for anyone except the most hardened Poke-investor and their crystal balls.
Option B: Create a market megathread. Due to the prevalence of price topics it’s become less of a megathread and more of a receptacle for random market-related discussion, crystal-ball prognosticating, etc. We’ve chosen to make the rest of the forum readable at the expense of one thread that really is not plausible to follow fully.
Like you said, no matter which option we pick there are going to be people who are pissed, that’s just the reality of running an internet forum. I think we do a good job balancing the market discussion, we have the big megathread and then we have smaller megathreads for watching price movement on stuff like 1st edition base, PSA 10 ex cards, etc. Often a price check thread will morph into a small market discussion and that’s to be expected and is fine. So the assertion that we throw everything into the Giant Market Thread, while it may seem that way due to the amount of rule-breaking posts I have to lock, is not really even factually correct. Of course, everyone can have their own opinions as to whether we’re actually doing the right thing with running the forum.
As always, if you have a suggestion or question about the rules, you can pm me or one of the other mods.
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It definitely seems like either option results in topics people bring up being buried regardless. I’ve had the opinion for a while that a price check megathread would be good but that could result in peoples prices checks getting buried too fast in other price checks on the same page. Personally there could be a few megathreads for anything that would only have a couple of replies at most but these are often hard to lump into a single category besides maybe price checks. Theres a fine balance between discussion between discussion being too compressed and not compressed enough.
Overall I think the way the forum is handled and formatted works amazing, just that the market megathread idea could be changed a bit.
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This is interesting to me. Maybe I’m using these forums completely different from everyone else, but when I want to see what people are posting in General Discussion, I go to that sub-forum and look for the most recently posted on topics. Likewise, if I want to see what questions people have asked recently, I manually go to “Just a Question” and look for topics I haven’t read yet. Basically I just go into subforums and look for new, interesting topics I haven’t clicked on yet.
Is everyone else using the forums differently? I’m guessing you guys are instead monitoring some feed of the most recently posted on topics across the entire forum? I’ve always ignored that feature on other sites, because it’s too random and contains too many threads I wouldn’t care less about.
Why not just make it so threads posted in Price and Market Discussion don’t show up on that global feed? Then it wouldn’t bother anyone. I’m not sure if there’s an option to selectively omit posts from there, but maybe it would be a compromise.
Personally, I thoroughly enjoy the conversations in the Giant Market Thread. I wish there was a way for these conversations to have their own threads, so I hope some other solution is found in the future.
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Steam Siege is a really great set. Beautiful Mitsuhiro Arita secret rares, shiny Pokemon…what more could you ask for?
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i think all these “MINI WAFFLE to win a spot in the main!!! only 15 spots at $40 each!!!” raffles are just a poorly veiled way for sellers to squeeze as much profit as possible out of their weighed “unweighed” packs.
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That’s not really an opinion that’s just a fact
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Title of the thread is UNPOPULAR opinion.
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the speed at which these raffles seem to fill up leads me to believe that they are incredibly popular
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Not here where the adults are. Lol
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Wow, I hadn’t even noticed that all the dual types are shiny lol.
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I’m sure this isn’t an unpopular opinion on e4, I just want to rant.
ALL the time, on every social media platform, those ‘influencers’ call Base Charizard and sometimes even Pikachu the ‘rarest’ cards when they mean the ‘most valuable’.
I get what they mean, but it’s just so wrong on so many levels that I cringe every time.
So yeah, my opinion is don’t do that.
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LOL
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Tins with small sets and shiny pokemon are the best things to open. I just wanted to open some pack for nostalgic and get some code for the online game around 8 years ago and brought some tins,the promos seems good in the game too, and it had dragon exalted in it just 2 packs and two others. I didn’t buy loads loads around 6 to 9 but I got quite good cards Full art rayquaza, full art mew. 2 shiny Pokémon including rayquaza which I still have in binder. As well as other good card from the other packets nothing else was as good and stopped for a while then hidden fates came along small set shiny Pokémon tin and that was fun to open just like my tins from 8 years ago. And now I am going to stop untill the next one comes along.
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People care way too much about condition. It’s a card made to be played with. I love my 1st edition base set psa 5s as much as the 7s as much as the 9s…
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I don’t like seeing multiple pokemon in the art for cards. I think it pulls focus away from the pokemon the card is meant to be of.
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I really wish I could go back to this mindset, it would make collecting so much easier. But e4 indoctrinated me too much already.
While I’m not that picky for the binder stuff, for my high priority cards everything worse than NM/M just doesn’t do it for me.
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