glen Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 This really reminded me of those good days when Fred and Ben were around almost all the time, answering or discussing different questions. (I know Fred and Ben are still around the forum, but definitely not that active as we hoped:() The problem with Fred, is when one now puts out bait for him, not only does he eat the bait, he eats the fishing line, and rod, and the boat too. In older days he would take the bait and, running with the thread, tow the boat along to port. The good news is that his current approach is much better for time productivity, which means more time for BBO and software, and for me if less from Fred here means more things like BBO/mobile, its a win for far more of us if he's business and software focused. Now that we are Fred-poor, the rest of us can step up to the plate, but we have to avoid playing grenade baseball. On unmoderated rec.games.bridge, here are quotes from a current thread, the quotes all from yesterday or early today: - Your assertion that maybe Meckwell would win more if they listened to you shows the height of your stupidity and ego. - The gist of this sub-thread is that your hysterical attack on the 1D bid in question has been met with disagreement and silent derision, now not so silent. - You continue to be a true genuine ape. - The most pathetic thing about this is that you are taking isolated hands and trying to make a case against a systemic call that you don't understand. Makes one happy to be in BBO forums, doesn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted September 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 On unmoderated rec.games.bridge, here are quotes from a current thread, the quotes all from yesterday or early today: - Your assertion that maybe Meckwell would win more if they listened to you shows the height of your stupidity and ego. - The gist of this sub-thread is that your hysterical attack on the 1D bid in question has been met with disagreement and silent derision, now not so silent. - You continue to be a true genuine ape. - The most pathetic thing about this is that you are taking isolated hands and trying to make a case against a systemic call that you don't understand. Makes one happy to be in BBO forums, doesn't it? RGB LOL. My experience in the 90's when I participated that you had a lot of haughty Flight B players that mostly exchanged insults. Very little good bridge was discussed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooltuna Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 On unmoderated rec.games.bridge, here are quotes from a current thread, the quotes all from yesterday or early today: - Your assertion that maybe Meckwell would win more if they listened to you shows the height of your stupidity and ego. - The gist of this sub-thread is that your hysterical attack on the 1D bid in question has been met with disagreement and silent derision, now not so silent. - You continue to be a true genuine ape. - The most pathetic thing about this is that you are taking isolated hands and trying to make a case against a systemic call that you don't understand. Makes one happy to be in BBO forums, doesn't it? RGB LOL. My experience in the 90's when I participated that you had a lot of haughty Flight B players that mostly exchanged insults. Very little good bridge was discussed. is Richard Pavlicek one of the flight B players you are referring to? Or maybe Bill Jacobs, Adam Wildavsky, or Keiran Dyke? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billw55 Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I feel like a lot of the new posters can't play bridge to save their life. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cascade Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 On unmoderated rec.games.bridge, here are quotes from a current thread, the quotes all from yesterday or early today: - Your assertion that maybe Meckwell would win more if they listened to you shows the height of your stupidity and ego. - The gist of this sub-thread is that your hysterical attack on the 1D bid in question has been met with disagreement and silent derision, now not so silent. - You continue to be a true genuine ape. - The most pathetic thing about this is that you are taking isolated hands and trying to make a case against a systemic call that you don't understand. Makes one happy to be in BBO forums, doesn't it? RGB LOL. My experience in the 90's when I participated that you had a lot of haughty Flight B players that mostly exchanged insults. Very little good bridge was discussed. And this compares how with the insults of some of the prominant posters on these forums? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlall Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 On unmoderated rec.games.bridge, here are quotes from a current thread, the quotes all from yesterday or early today: - Your assertion that maybe Meckwell would win more if they listened to you shows the height of your stupidity and ego. - The gist of this sub-thread is that your hysterical attack on the 1D bid in question has been met with disagreement and silent derision, now not so silent. - You continue to be a true genuine ape. - The most pathetic thing about this is that you are taking isolated hands and trying to make a case against a systemic call that you don't understand. Makes one happy to be in BBO forums, doesn't it? RGB LOL. My experience in the 90's when I participated that you had a lot of haughty Flight B players that mostly exchanged insults. Very little good bridge was discussed. And this compares how with the insults of some of the prominant posters on these forums? LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobowolf Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 On unmoderated rec.games.bridge, here are quotes from a current thread, the quotes all from yesterday or early today: - Your assertion that maybe Meckwell would win more if they listened to you shows the height of your stupidity and ego. - The gist of this sub-thread is that your hysterical attack on the 1D bid in question has been met with disagreement and silent derision, now not so silent. - You continue to be a true genuine ape. - The most pathetic thing about this is that you are taking isolated hands and trying to make a case against a systemic call that you don't understand. Makes one happy to be in BBO forums, doesn't it? RGB LOL. My experience in the 90's when I participated that you had a lot of haughty Flight B players that mostly exchanged insults. Very little good bridge was discussed. And this compares how with the insults of some of the prominant posters on these forums? To paraphrase an early chess grandmaster: "The arrogance of genius is difficult to bear, but the arrogance of mediocrity is intolerable." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cascade Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 On unmoderated rec.games.bridge, here are quotes from a current thread, the quotes all from yesterday or early today: - Your assertion that maybe Meckwell would win more if they listened to you shows the height of your stupidity and ego. - The gist of this sub-thread is that your hysterical attack on the 1D bid in question has been met with disagreement and silent derision, now not so silent. - You continue to be a true genuine ape. - The most pathetic thing about this is that you are taking isolated hands and trying to make a case against a systemic call that you don't understand. Makes one happy to be in BBO forums, doesn't it? RGB LOL. My experience in the 90's when I participated that you had a lot of haughty Flight B players that mostly exchanged insults. Very little good bridge was discussed. And this compares how with the insults of some of the prominant posters on these forums? LOL Sorry Justin I don't get the joke. Rudeness and insults are just not acceptable. Perhaps you should read the terms of service sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlall Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 On unmoderated rec.games.bridge, here are quotes from a current thread, the quotes all from yesterday or early today: - Your assertion that maybe Meckwell would win more if they listened to you shows the height of your stupidity and ego. - The gist of this sub-thread is that your hysterical attack on the 1D bid in question has been met with disagreement and silent derision, now not so silent. - You continue to be a true genuine ape. - The most pathetic thing about this is that you are taking isolated hands and trying to make a case against a systemic call that you don't understand. Makes one happy to be in BBO forums, doesn't it? RGB LOL. My experience in the 90's when I participated that you had a lot of haughty Flight B players that mostly exchanged insults. Very little good bridge was discussed. And this compares how with the insults of some of the prominant posters on these forums? LOL Sorry Justin I don't get the joke. Rudeness and insults are just not acceptable. Perhaps you should read the terms of service sometime. Dude, serious question. Do you call your mom and cry that the mean mean people are mean to you on the forums? Does she tell you how the mean moderators must be in collusion with the mean mean posters for not doing anything to stop this outrageous behavior towards you? Do you tell her how even though half your posts are defending the honor of yourself or the forums and calling for the moderators to do something or asking the mean people to read the terms of service, nothing happens? Maybe you will never get it. There is a reason most, as you say, "regular forum posters" do not like your posts. You are generally making trollish posts, or are up in arms about something, or are being a contrarian for the sake of it, or are promoting your pet methods, whatever. You just need to relax. Remember those movies where the socially inept kid is getting bullied, and his parents say "just ignore it and it will stop?" That is actually how it works! Just lighten up, laugh at yourself a little, stop trying to report people to the hall monitor and telling them to read the student handbook page 16 section 3. It is not pure chance that people don't like you. It is your own doing. It is easily fixable. Your favorite insult to me is to call me "antisocial" but you frequently drive people away, whereas anyone who knows me can tell you whether or not I have friends, and whether or not I am actually antisocial. If you really care this much about the forums and how people treat you, look at yourself not others. Seriously. These things are generally self moderating. Hopefully this post did not hurt your feelings, we can go back to trolling/insulting each other now (yes that's right, you are frequently insulting to me too!) but I can see that you really care so maybe this will help you. GL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwery_hi Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 - Your assertion that maybe Meckwell would win more if they listened to you shows the height of your stupidity and ego. - The gist of this sub-thread is that your hysterical attack on the 1D bid in question has been met with disagreement and silent derision, now not so silent. - You continue to be a true genuine ape. - The most pathetic thing about this is that you are taking isolated hands and trying to make a case against a systemic call that you don't understand. Makes one happy to be in BBO forums, doesn't it? Those who can, win BB and don't worry about forums. Those who can't, well, they have fun on forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the hog Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 On unmoderated rec.games.bridge, here are quotes from a current thread, the quotes all from yesterday or early today: - Your assertion that maybe Meckwell would win more if they listened to you shows the height of your stupidity and ego. - The gist of this sub-thread is that your hysterical attack on the 1D bid in question has been met with disagreement and silent derision, now not so silent. - You continue to be a true genuine ape. - The most pathetic thing about this is that you are taking isolated hands and trying to make a case against a systemic call that you don't understand. Makes one happy to be in BBO forums, doesn't it? RGB LOL. My experience in the 90's when I participated that you had a lot of haughty Flight B players that mostly exchanged insults. Very little good bridge was discussed. And this compares how with the insults of some of the prominant posters on these forums? Thats an easy one, Wayne. Kieran, Bill and Richard P are far better players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggieb Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 Now Ron, don't shorten yourself! :D I must say I still learn a lot by reading these forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbalt Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 .... but right now it really sucks.I object to that terminology. Sucking isn't always bad. It all depends on what you are sucking, and who it belongs to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgr Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Is it me, or has the quality of the posts rapidly gone downhill in the past few weeks? Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I feel like a lot of the new posters can't play bridge to save their life. If this is going to be a legitimate site to post and discuss hands, the quality needs to improve. Maybe its never been as good as it should be, but right now it really sucks. It looks like Justin is trying to compensate with his longer - and interesting - posts he is recently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zasanya Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Is it me, or has the quality of the posts rapidly gone downhill in the past few weeks? Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I feel like a lot of the new posters can't play bridge to save their life. If this is going to be a legitimate site to post and discuss hands, the quality needs to improve. Maybe its never been as good as it should be, but right now it really sucks. No offense inteneded to Phil but a serious suggestion to authority.Phil and other like minded people might be allowed to moderate a section.He/they could filter out undesirable posts and posters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 I would never have guessed I was so popular, except with Cascade where I already had a pretty good idea how popular I was. I'm blushing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 *****, I told you guys not to say so or he'd notice when he came back :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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