Well after reading the "Does Xianti hate IRC post" and seeing that IRC has been disowned, I think its time for a response.

Point #1 - The majority of the people complaining about IRC are never in IRC. Ultimate George I have never seen you in IRC and yet I have seen a few posts from you about it plus one thanking Xianti for disowning it.

Point #2 - You don't have to read every friggin community post. If the reasoning behind your hatred of an IRC channel is that you have to read little bickerings in the community, SKIP THE DAMN POST. Just don't friggin read it, its not that hard.

Point #3 - The reason there are problems is IRC is that the good players abandoned it. In the last couple weeks, players like myself and Doggz have actually been making an effort to clean things up. I started an #ftr-pokeronly channel for those who didn't want to deal with the random BS getting discussed. We've also started kick/banning people for inappropriate comments, etc. We're doing this while 4-6 tabling, thats more effort that i've seen from anyone else who's been sitting here bitching about it.

Point #4 - The forums have become absolutely useless for gaining any sort of useful input on actual poker theory. Yes i said, useless. I don't remember the last time I actually read a response to a post that put forth any useful information. Typically one person responds with a cookie-cutter reply and 10 post-whores type something like "i agree with so-and-so." We need places like IRC and Vent to actually discuss poker theory, analyze hands, analyze situations etc. From the time I first found the forums (1 year) , I lost over a grand. Since I joined IRC and Vent (3 months), I've made over $10k. Coincidence....I think not.

Point #5 - Before you delete this post and ban me, think about what I'm actually saying. I swear if this post gets insta-deleted and I get insta-banned than I have successfully proved my point that you all are little babies that can't handle real criticism and are too lazy to actually fix a problem with a good thing, you simply delete it and hope it goes away.

I leave it to you, either respond with an intelligent argument and prove to me that IQ exists on this forum. Or delete this and ban me and prove to me that you all are the little whining babies I think you are.