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 Originally Posted by linaker
Are you serious? Take a look at this thread. Someone introduces himself and a mod deletes his sig adding "doubt you'll be back". Probably he is a spammer, but as his only crime so far is to mention a site in his sig, why can't he be given the benefit of the doubt and be treated respectfully and welcomed by representatives of FTR? How do you think this plays with lurkers who are thinking of participating?
This is mild compared with other "welcomes". A few females have introduced themselves and after the "pics of your tits or gtfo" posts, I have never seen any of them again. Anyone who does not show the appropriate humility or posts "bad questions" is mocked and if they complain, the resident 10NL experts of the BC tell them that they will never learn anything with that attitude. So everyone either leaves or shuts up so as not to rock the boat and the self perpetuating clique goes on and on.
If anyone is in any doubt that this is not a welcoming site primarily for politely discussing poker, look at reputations. Sauce123 has 1 green square and is on a distinguished road. Benny LaRue has 4 and is an interplanetary star or whatever. What more is there to say?
1 - the sig is against terms and conditions of the site
2 - thus jyms is well within his rights to remove it
3 - read the first 4 posts in this thread. all welcoming and assuming the best (despite 99% of these posters just being spammers) of this person/trying to help
4 - we all know the rep game is largely bullshit and the most relevant forum for that seems to be the commune anyway - forum where poker strategy talk is forbidden
5 - there are VERY few posters that will criticise you in any way IF you are showing that you are actually striving to improve, open to others' ideas, and investing your own time in improving. i don't necessarily agree with some people whose approach is often to say "jam flop", "fold turn" without providing their reasoning - but that's just because i'm an analytical nutcase and i like to dig deeper into the the factors which lead to decisions etc.
6 - everyone sucked at one stage and asked stupid questions. if you think someone is treating you harshly, who gives a shit? you probably think they're a dickhead anyway (for treating you in a way you view as excessively harsh) and so shouldn't care about their personal opinions on you. however, the more harsh poster are almost invariably the better posters, and thus there is a shitload of knowledge/skill to be gained by taking their advice. which leads me to...
7 - at the end of the day, regardless of the tone of responses, every participating member on this forum posts their honest opinions and advice to other unknown poker players around the world, which some could even consider tapping the tank - making the games worse for themselves. (i'm thinking of guys like spoonitnow here who used to spend an absolute fuckload of time helping people become better at the game which they made a living from, for free, thus directly cutting into their own profits - just to help others (this obv applies to bikes/M2M/a whole host of other regular posters)
i could go on. but there's some of my thoughts.
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