Quote Originally Posted by gingerwizard View Post
How old are you red? How about setting some criteria for players you will help and explaining what beginners need to do to prove that they meet those criteria?

This seems far better and more constructive, would save you further pain in your nuts and wouldn't come across as being condescending, arrogant and dismissive.

As is I can't see how your first post achieves anything at all other than projecting a less than favourable impression of your personality (judge a man not by how he treats his equals but how he treats his inferiors). The second is hardly better Calling on players to separate themselves out according to some loose and immeasurable criteria such as intelligence then form an orderly queue for advice.

It seems to me that anyone intelligent enough to qualify for your advice should be offended by this thread and should doubt your talents as a teacher no matter how successful you are (and I know that's VERY) on the tables. I also believe anyone grovelling to you on the lines of "sorry we disappoint you we'll try harder" cannot possibly qualify as intelligent.

Frankly I'm surprised nobody else is tilted by this thread
Agree completely. There's a great misconception in this community that new players/weaker players have to take some lower place in the hierarchy and behave like grateful worthless idiots just because they're not yet as proficient or successful as those teaching them. I might not be redzilla or a major balla or anything, far from it, but I've had more than enough experience coaching/helping people in this industry to know that respecting them and motivating them via their own results and the interest you take in their game is far more successful than a condescending "become worthy of my help" approach.

Regarding people sorting themselves into some order of the worthy and unworthy, that sounds like some kind of weird poker fascism. It's usually blatant who benefits from the advise given and who doesn't. If people have attitude problems then that's too bad for them. This is a public forum and so advise given here is available to everyone. Those who have the ability and attitude to benefit from it will do so and they and their teachers will lose nothing from the rest of the community reading it and failing to do anything with it.

Also, just because someone is currently terrible at poker and unable to use the help they're being given, it doesn't mean they'll always be, so crushing their spirit by deeming them eternally unworthy is a pretty terrible way to help them get to the stage where they can benefit.

I think it's great that someone successful in poker wants to give their time to help, but honestly, I think you've got your approach to helping pretty wrong if that's truly the aim of this thread.

Ohh one more thing. People really need to have some self respect instead of just accepting their place in this imaginary order of dominance. Just because this is the internet doesn't mean people should be treated as stupid objects. Yeah some people are arguably dumb, unhelpable etc, but so what, it's a public forum they generally don't hold anyone with real potential back. If they put you off posting to help those that can be helped, Zilla, then that's too bad; they're always going to be there. Maybe instead you should do private coaching, that way you can help those with potential and get the reward of seeing their progress.

In short, I think you're going about this all wrong and its a shame to condition newcomers to the game like this,