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Cormack,
Any chance of providing a fenced off section of the forum for those posters whose entire input seems to consist of:
Yah boo sucks, I’ve had a bigger bet than you so there and I got a better price than you anyway.
Oh no you didn’t and your horse is useless and you don’t know nothing.
Tedious is the polite word that comes to mind.
AP
(I’m sure that I’ll now be told I don’t have to read the threads if I’m not interested, but most of these posts occur in other wise interesting discussions)
Such a section could be named “The Betfair Forum”.
Such a section is already called the Betfair forum
Cheeky mofo AP……..you would be as well saying let’s get rid of anyone who says he’s had a bet………hand me my hat mate and point me towards the door why don’t you?
Talk about waving a Yellow Flag at a bull
Fair point AP, but how much have you had on at what price for the current Fav for the Triumph?
Hi Alan
it all revolves around members EGO……… it amazes me that seemingly intelligent people can be so far up themselves.
Personally i have come to the conclusion that need support and help if i am going to make a good living from betting.
I have loads of spare time, the correct awareness and desire. However i feel maintaining a business like strategy is the real key to success. This is a difficult task for a one man band.
byefrom
carlisle"i didn’t go to school"
Some are more introverted than others. This forum is no different from most other forums; in the respect that some posters appear more enthusiastic than others to get their point of view across. I see little wrong with that. It is this eclectic mix of personality which makes it more interesting – for me at least, though I do accept, not for others.
This forum is quiet (trust me on this ) compared with football and music related forums – where aggression and egregiousness seem to go hand in hand.
I happen to like characters like Fist Of Fury. One only finds fault if one is intent on finding fault.
Live and let live, I say.
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"Live and let live, I say."
Fair enough, I’m all in favour of tolerance but some posters need to show respect and tolerance to others, or some people will feel bullied or intimidated.
It is surely possible to disagree with a post without insulting the poster?
Colin
I think Colin has hit the nail on the head. It isn’t the volume of posts that defines this forum, rather the manner in which people conduct themselves.
There are too many people treating one another with contempt, purely on the basis of a disagreement over the merits of one horse or another or because they go about betting in a different way. Vigorous debate is one thing, personal abuse quite another.
Equally there are too many posters prepared to sneer or look down their noses at novices or those who offer new ideas with which they disagree.
Essentially I feel people should conduct themselves on the forum as they would in person rather than feeling that the anonymity of the internet gives them licence to be abusive or unpleasant.
I would agree wholeheartedly with the sentiments expressed in the 2 posts directly above. I would ask any potential poster to at least think before you post. If you’d said it once you don’t need to say it one hundred times. Its really annoying reading the same thing over and over and over again.
Suggestions: Why not have a separate section for the Cheltenham championship races. Something like The TRF Awards section, with all opinions on runners going in there. At the moment the main board is full of Katchit, Kauto, Denman, Katchit, Kauto, Denman and frankly its brain damage. Anything else Cheltenham related could stay on the main page.
Cormack, please consider changing the star system to 1 for each year of membership.
Cormack, please consider changing the star system to 1 for each year of membership.
Why so ?
Longevity of membership being somehow more meritorius than number of posts ? By that reasoning a member, lets’ say of ten years or more, could post only a handful of times ( or once ! ) and thereby be considered as " classic" standard. As a relative newbie, I have no wish to rock the boat, as it were, but I do feel some people need to get off their high horse. Why not just scrap the star system altogether then ?
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Surely it is of no consequence i.e. number of posts or number of stars!
Cav Ram is only suggesting a system where a poster is not tempted to make a post just to clock up stars.
I’m not sure if that is why we seem to have new members making lots of posts, but Cav’s idea would perhaps put the idea in those posters mind that quality might be just a little more important than quantity.
Sorry if that sounds pompous, but anything that discourages multiple threads on what are really the same subject, and posters constantly repeating the same thing over and over again, can’t be bad.
Seems to me we have a number of potential politicians on here, who believe that if they say a thing often enough it will become fact. (apologies to all Maggie supporters!)
Colin
Why so ?
One reason and one reason only, it might act as a deterrent to the 450 posts a month members who post the same thing over and over again day in day out.
The "meritorious" star system is of no other interest to me. As I posted earlier I’m quite happy to read and take onboard anyone else’s opinion withinin reason, its what makes this a great place but that same opinion doesn’t need to be shouted dozens of times over.
Discerning the quality of any post is a subjective matter. Always has been. I also think that it might be a bit presumptuous to suggest that some members only post simply to rack up stars. I take the less negative angle and profer the view that those who post more frequently than others do so because of their sense of heightened enthusiasm for the sport.
I may be wrong of course.
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