jdonn Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 Actually we should have a poster of the decade vote. New thread gwnn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 I would now like to nominate Stephen Tu as the best poster of the decade... that old unregistered jlall was teh worst imo :rolleyes:You do not belong here. Go play on the short bus.lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elianna Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 the draft is now: http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=83http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=3537 and http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=3651http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=8270http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=8787http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=9893http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=12678http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=14158http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=17756http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=19164http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=19335http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=19960http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=21068http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=21082http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=21693http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=22350http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=23116http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=27678http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=28746http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=28777http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=29706http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=34622 I don't have time to justify all of them but 83 is great because it came before all other rating threads and was actually an anti-rating thread :) And 21082 was an unanimous poll (as of 27 January 2010). edit: addinghttp://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=25181 to the list, particularly Echognome's reply was hysterical. It's really hard to keep track of with just the numbers. Is there any way you could label them by subject (or interesting sub-subject as the case may be) for an actual poll? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 (edited) 1. Anti-Rating System2. Least favorite conventions and Favorite conventions3. Hamman: Talent or System?4. Diamonds are always foul in Tenerife5. Double Dummy Solver6. Bash Conventions7. A for Attitude; K for Count8. Theory vs Experience9. Does Opener's reverse in 2/1 show extras?10. 5D goes for 80011. 1NT Opening with a Stiff12. 20 Hours of College Math13. Unanimous poll!14. We Didn't Vote for Bush!15. AKQ9xx opposite xx16. Gitelman 2/117. School's in Session18. Forcing Pass19. Ignoring the Side Major20. Overtricks at IMPs21. Bridge and the Blue Team22. Appeals to Authority23. Ben's Threads on Squeezes in the BI Forum:a. Introduction to Squeeze Playsb. Squeezes Quizc. Part IId. Part II Quize. Part III I hope you don't mind I went ahead and did it. Feel free to re-do any of mine, gwnn, and I'll edit this post so that yours take the spotlight. Just trying to help. Added Ben's stuff. Hope you dont mind. Edited January 27, 2010 by jjbrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted January 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 haha thanks jjbrr :) may I say great titles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elianna Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 1. Anti-Rating System2. Least favorite conventions and Favorite conventions3. Hamman: Talent or System?4. Diamonds are always foul in Tenerife5. Double Dummy Solver6. Bash Conventions7. A for Attitude; K for Count8. Theory vs Experience9. Does Opener's reverse in 2/1 show extras?10. 5D goes for 80011. 1NT Opening with a Stiff12. 20 Hours of College Math13. Unanimous poll!14. We Didn't Vote for Bush!15. AKQ9xx opposite xx16. Gitelman 2/117. School's in Session18. Forcing Pass19. Ignoring the Side Major20. Overtricks at IMPs21. Bridge and the Blue Team22. Appeals to Authority I hope you don't mind I went ahead and did it. Feel free to re-do any of mine, gwnn, and I'll edit this post so that yours take the spotlight. Just trying to help. Thank you very much! That's great and makes it SOOO much easier to discuss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elianna Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 So it seems that we have two main categories of threads: 1) Threads that contain helpful, informative, or provacative posts/ideas that attempt to teach something 2) Threads where someone posted something really stupid and people tell them so in humorous ways. I worry that if we pick threads of the second category, it will only serve to make fun of people, and tell non-frequent posters (or new posters) that this could be their fate if they cross the line that others state. I guess I'm worrying about the appearance of bullying. But maybe that's over thinking. I do admit they are funny, and I don't actually feel sorry for most of the picked on in the threads highlighted. I just am worried about appearances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 Well. Quickly click through the threads that you consider to be the ones where people get flamed for something stupid while noting which subforum the thread is in. Perhaps if you see a pattern, there might be a moral to the story or some sort of lesson available that should mitigate the appearance of unwarranted bullying. There is a reason for specific subforums, after all. Also, gwnn, was it just an error to leave the squeeze threads out of that or did they not qualify? Edit: I added Ben's stuff above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 If I were judging solely based on bridge related content I think Ben's work on squeezes wins. If I were voting on the best content by the "community" participating in the thread I'd have to go for "We didn't Vote for Bush" For sheer amusement value, "20 Hours of College Math" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted January 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2010 sure Ben's squeeze threads should be there. I guess we should open a poll now? no specific criteria, just "which would you name as thread of the decade?". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted January 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2010 oh and 1 more...? http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=18005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awm Posted January 28, 2010 Report Share Posted January 28, 2010 Maybe I'm biased since I started it, but I like the forcing pass thread. It's unusual in having multiple contributions from Fred, and quite a number of good posts overall (in addition to the usual nonsense posts and people telling the nonsense posters it's nonsense). A lot of these other threads seem to have one or two really good posts, and then a lot of dumb posts alternated with people trying to explain why the dumb posts are dumb, but failing to get through to the posters in question... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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