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Originally Posted by RioGossiper
I'm going to disagree here. There are fewer fish because threads like this.
To quote an action player at a big live game here who used to play the 2k party game, "why would I want to play with those miserable nits when I can play live plo?" Hi/lo is his favorite game, however the hi/lo regs are not.
I am also curious buzz how you know who I am. It isn't a big secret, just curious. You can pm if you want.
The people you have quoted as your example are rather bad examples. First you use Andy Beal (wow you read the book, who hasnt) and the fact that you are trying to compare random fish from Europe who randomly play and sink their money.
2nd- your example above is from a 2k game, do you think that people playing 2k care about a poker forum about whether they are good or not? I can't believe how often I'm told that I suck at the tables, but it doesn't change anything.
3rd- Listen to what your quote was above, the guy doesn't talk about being insulted or anything like that, he just feels that there is not enough action in o8 relative to plo (isnt this rather obvious). The guy doesn't like the fact that the people are so nitty.
4th- I will not challenge you to rolls or whatever because I don't know who you are and dont really wish to be so petty. You make some good points about how you dont like these threads and think they are bad for the game, but then you go on to make personal attacks against people which basically destroys any possible good that your comments could make.
5th- No matter how many examples you can possibly have of people not liking online o8 players, I bet that the sample size is so insignificant it would not make or break the game. Will it hurt it...maybe, I don't know. But to say that this thread will kill the game or hurt it significantly cannot be said as I cannot say that one thread or something like that will help the game significantly.
6th- This is a forum. Although there are rules and regulations, this is a place for people to talk poker and stuff retaining to poker. There is no cost and nothing that states that you must read it. The great thing about this forum is that they have subject lines so that if you dont think you will like the content of the thread, you can ignore it. Throughout this whole thread, there have been minimal attacks on any people. The only real attacks have been on Idiot29 and rackeback27 and the back and forth with the people who insulted them. However, I think that if you talk to either of them, what people say on this forum will not make them quit the game and will be their decision alone.
7th- While I agree that some people are annoying and jerks and hurt the game, this happens in all games. I think that you are overestimating the power of a thread or a forum. I do not go through and search other forums for possible insults about myself and I don't know who would google themselves just to see what people are saying about them. And if they did, why would they care what some people on a forum say about them. Usually, its just 1 or 2 people saying someone is bad and someone else agreeing.
8th- While I don't think these threads have particularly great merit because they almost always degenerate into a pissing contest, there are much better ways to go about it.
Overall, I think that you should really just think before you type out responses, especially since you rarely post here so as to not polarize everyone against you and destroy anything you are trying to accomplish.