LogFAQs > #975428753

kinda funny in a way.

The papermoney sub is one I have been a member of for a while. Now, as long as I can recall, there have been opposing factions at odds, because hardcore currency and light currency posts are present. Somebody showing off a true Confederate note from the 1800s, all the way to paper shillings and other things, foreign currency, and people asking if a certain serial number or star note are valuable.

Now, I started this hobby because of serial numbers and star notes, so I have a small soft spot for such posts, though some people will ask if a completely random serial number is valuable ex (47342739) and that can get a little annoying sometimes.

The division comes from people who want more posts about antique or historical currency, they find serial number posts bogus unless it's something huge like 00000001 or 77777777. People have complained. efforts have been made to reduce the number of these posts through moderations and stickies and side bars etc. But they still persist. I never liked this attitude because people who are starting out sometimes need a person to direct them in ways a sticky could not. I see no reason to not be nice, answer the question, and move on. or just ignore it. I would never want to be an asshole to a new collector or something curious. So, the sub kind of had two identities and sometimes they'd butt heads. I never really understood why both couldn't coexist, but that would require some people to ignore a sizeable chunk of posts on the forum, which isn't difficult but yeah.

Something happened....A few weeks or a month ago a post got reddit popular to some degree. I actually forget what the post was, but it attracted thousands of new visitors and then subs to the papermoney forum. So now, in some way, regular reddit has noticed.

And what is happening is the sub is turning out worse than any serial number thread could imo because its becoming regular, normie reddit. you have people who have just now picked up at least a small interest in currency but aren't knowledgeable. This generally isn't a bad thing(new people means you have a chance to get them seriously interested in becoming numismatists!), but what that influx entails is regular reddit.

Thousands of upvotes for a picture of "Disney Dollars" from the 1980s asking if they are real, the current most upvoted post in r/PM history about a person who confiscated a fake $100 bill from a customer, with lots of confidently incorrect information being floated about what a cashier can and can not do if they suspect or know they have fake currency, etc. That same misinformation may have been posted before the influx, but the post itself wouldn't have been as popular and the misinformation would have been easier to shoot down.

In a way it is kind of funny to see, because I never understood why the "historical/antique" currency fans had to have such disdain at times for the "serial number" fans(many of which are new collectors), so now we have something actually much worse.

anyways, before anybody mentions it I don't expect anybody to actually care about this post but here we are baby! gimme a Zang "ok" and the world'll be alright