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No Twitter, I have Facebook though if that helps? I do not like checklists, but I feel compelled to collect them.

As a kid I didn't mind getting the first one to keep track of my collection. But when I pulled a double UGH! No self-respecting 5th grader would trade you for a checklist.

Not on "X," I never liked checklist cards. They're boring, get marked up, and just aren't that useful. Maaaaayyybe team checklists if printed on the back of a team photo. But even those aren't great. 

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for what it's worth, just today I was scrolling through insta, and saw a post by Nat Turner, showcasing his 1996-97 Finest Basketball, checklist, refractor PSA 10, and the comment was something like this:  if you know me, you know I love a checklist.

so those who are lovers of checklists, are in good company

I am going to disagree with most people here.  I don't mind modern checklists, but I don't like them as a subset.  What I prefer is what Topps did in the late 2000s where they would use a checklist as a filler card or ad card or if they would use a bigger version as a box topper. 

What I really wish they would do again with flagship is just add manager cards with a team checklist on the back like in the mid 80s.  Would have to have them exclusively in series 2, but I would be OK with that.  It might help Topps to stop ridiculous accidental exclusions for less popular teams.  2022 Topps, CJ Cron was excluded from the main set and update despite being the Rockies lone All Star rep that year.  A team checklist might prevent such an oversight.  Sorry...had to stick my own old man rant at the end of answering yours.

[Also a non-Twitter user.]

I agree with T206. Vintage checklists (Topps 1969, to note one really nice design) are cool, especially the cards that have not been marked by a previous owner. My other self-created conundrum is whether to put the "Veteran Combos" or the "Season Highlights" (cards that have been created in the past twenty years or so) with either the Team they represent or in the binder with all my checklists...I'm torn.

I like certain types of CLs. The ones that Ultra, UD and (original) Leaf did in the early to mid-90's with a player photo in the background were awesome. I also like team CL's with the CL on the back and a team photo on the front with a manager inset photo in a corner. As for just a list of cards on a card, I only liked them when they were team-specific, even if it was multiple teams on the same card (like Fleer and Donruss in the early 1980's). I will say that they were important in the early days of trading cards and up into the 1980's, but not at all important now. I did like how Topps and Donruss started putting CL papers into boxes in the mid-2000's that included all base cards and inserts and such. Not seeing that anymore really, but those were the only CL's that I ever actually marked on since it was just paper.

Lastly, I also don't use X/Twitter or any of the other popular social media sites. However, TCDB is literally a social media site too. Just wanted to point that out...