sceptic Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 (edited) Opinions please Edited April 8, 2006 by sceptic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceptic Posted April 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 can someone edit the answers to the poll please a mere techinical hitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Definitely - especially as the time of the single answer poll seems to have arrived! lol p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csdenmark Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 No - I tend to the positiion it has been more interesting - at least potential to be so. To me all the bidding sequences makes no sense at all and I have always wondered why persons with intellectual capacity find any meaning of such. I am disappointed of the water cooler - as most topics there too seems of very little meaning. A few topics are of interest. Those which are able to reveal a bit of differences between cultures and general knowledge of people based on different sources of information. It is very interesting to see who are very active in posting in BBO Forum in general but have no posts at all in important topics in Water Cooler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickf Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 I voted and am delighted (as a conformist) that I share the same opinion as all others who have voted so far. btw, is the option YESNOYES intended for people like me who can't make up their minds? nicksydney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Dodgy Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 lol@nick I also voted 'yesnoyes', and while this may come as a surprise, I stand by it. I'm Piscean. The question seems a trifle vague, especially given the complexity of the poll. As Claus mentioned it, I'll say that while The Water-Cooler is a good concept for putting non-bridge discussion in a different basket to the bridge threads, I don't really like much of what I see there. Some threads in WC are amusing, however some content is misplaced. I quite enjoy reading political/historical/moral/religious commentary, and thereasre some very astute minds contributing interesting material to the BBO forums on such matters...but to me this is not the correct arena for it to get serious. I have great respect for the fact that BBO has been very open-minded in regard to it's censorship of the boards as a whole, and in general I think it makes forums.bridgebase.com a fascinating place. If you think the forums have 'gone downhill', restrict your participation in them to those areas you do like. and VOTE YESNOYES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr1303 Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Well, I don't think the quality of the main forums has gone down at all since the introduction of the water cooler. And some of the posts here are somewhat interesting. Admittedly, a lot of them I don't pay attention to, such as anything about Iraq or the USA's position in the world. So I certainly see no reason to get rid of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Haha Wayne. Poll edited. YesNoYesNoYesNoYes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickyB Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Were some of those votes for "yes" really votes for "yesnoyes"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the saint Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Yesnoyesnoyesnoyesno. Isn't it just Vicky Pollard? Shut up. Don't go giving me eeeeevvviills. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csdenmark Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Were some of those votes for "yes" really votes for "yesnoyes"? When I voted there were only one option: yesnoyes Those 4 which were there as I voted have now all been converted to YES. So the result of the poll is now a bit biased. Now I would vote NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke warm Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 i think the results are scewered because of the earlier glitch, but i could be wrong... no, i don't think the forums have gone downhill... the water cooler is like any other sub-forum, a person can read/post or not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigpenz Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 as long as we have a water cooler maybe we should add bathroom too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 I regret that I vaste so much time in the water cooler instead of discussing bridge. On the other hand, the water cooler may primarily be intended to divert off-topic stuff from other forums and I think it works reasonable in that respect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 I regret that I vaste so much time in the water cooler instead of discussing bridge. and nowdays? :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerardo Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 Claus (and others): you can change your vote, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggwhiz Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 I want to vote Yes/No! Got a good recipe from the grilling thread and a terrible movie recomendation in the past 3 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 Since the introduction of the Aberlour10 necros on Water Cooler, do you think BBO Forums has declined FYP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 FYP I would expect to such a poll question final votes of 0 YES and 96 NOs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bbradley62 Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 Since the original question, asked 5 years ago, seems to be about the effect that the creation of the Water Cooler had on the Forums as a whole, I don't think you'd be able to find 96 people qualified to vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 I have no idea what to make of the question. It is hard for me to see how the existence of the Water Cooler could affect the quality of, say, the Adv and Expert Class Bridge Thread. And if the deterioration is the existence of WC threads that were deemed uninteresting, then they can just be ignored. I have no interest in golf, so I don't follow golf threads. I don't regard the existence of golf threads as a deterioration, or an advance, in bbo forums. So the point is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 I think the point is that people like luke_warm, al_u_card, mike777, hrothgar and yourself were much valued contributors to the bridge topics before the water cooler. OK some of you are still active in the bridge discussions but might have had more time for it without the water cooler distractions. And maybe a few weirdoes even miss the days when I was more active in the bridge discussions. But I would like to vote for the observation that BBF has deterioated since Dwayne got a relationship and Ron became a father. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 The quality of BBF has decreased immensely IMO but this has nothing to do with the watercooler. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotShot Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 I agree with cherdano, this has / had nothing to do with the water cooler. When I joined the forum 2003 the community consisted of only a few active posters and most of them had very high standards in behavior and bridge.The community has grown since than and it seems logical that a larger community will have a wider range of standards.IIRC this thread was started when a few active and established poster left because they felt mobbed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke warm Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 I think the point is that people like luke_warm, al_u_card, mike777, hrothgar and yourself were much valued contributors to the bridge topics before the water cooler. in my case, it's coincidental... i became interested in online poker and my partner of many years remembered she was married *sob*... i simply lost a lot of the fire i once had Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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