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Originally Posted by minraise_ninja
beginner vs. non sounds bad
You don't like the concept or you don't like the nomenclature?
The latter is easy to fix. Call it the "LHE: we'll coddle you and explain basic concepts slowly" and "LHE: look if you want free advice on how to beat bigger games you're expected to put in a ton of work on your own." Or whatever.
Admittedly, the former is not. Sure, it would be best if everyone just tried to be as nice as possible while giving good advice. But that has been an unpopular opinion when I've suggested that in the past. So two forums, one in which people expect basic concepts to be fully explained, one in which people are expected to understand basic concepts already, makes sense to me.
We could also have just one forum (the traffic really doesn't justify two forums) and leave it to peoples' discretion as to how to behave. But I think that puts a significant burden on the mods, plus, again from past experience, you're going to get a lot of not-nice comments directed at really nice, well-meaning people who happen to be really bad at poker. I'll point to a poster named threeducks who - god bless his soul - tried so so so so hard and failed so so so so hard. He literally changed his screen name so he could get a fresh start (and I think quit posting altogether when he started receiving really negative comments on his second account).