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You aren't so anal about stupid Tennis and Golf posts
Posted By: Stick In Response To: You aren't so anal about stupid Tennis and Golf posts (Michael Petch)
Date: Tuesday, 26 July 2011, at 4:52 a.m.
I would hope everyone would see the difference between posting here for support of their favorite bot and posting here when there's an important bot update or something that the general public would need or like to know. These are two very different things. There's also posting something that someone else may know who doesn't have to be someone working at the GNU team or Xavier that I hope people still post. To me the line seems obvious, in practice I guess it's more gray than I see it.
It has nothing to do with what topics I enjoy, "what bothers you and what topics you do enjoy", it is how you post things. Am I not being clear? I don't enjoy football, I'm ok with golf but would be ok if threads of it never came up, poker great, tennis great, etc... but the people here are mostly gamers and a lot of us interested in backgammon are also interested in these other things. We have for example lost many former great backgammon players to the poker boom and some like to see how their former bg buddies are doing. We have Chuck and Frank who created ZEUS which is very interesting and sort of sparked all the football chat here and even I find that interesting to follow at times. However, all I ever ask for anything non bg related is to make it clear it's off topic in the Subject line. We have all agreed to sidestep politics and religion for the most part, at least until I get wasted and feel like ranting on religion one day.
I think it's nice to post about other interests, it forms a more tight knit community. You get to know people as more than Paul Weaver Giant #blah from the US. You know him as Wally Peever who used to play Ping Pong and has a sense of humor that even he doesn't get. Or Nack Ballard, former #1 Giant for 8,000 years becomes Nack Ballard, skilled at chess, masterful for a caucasian at go, Scrabble madman and most importantly, the best Color Lines player on either side of the Atlantic. Now when I see David Rockwell at a tournament we have a lot more to discuss than bg should we wish to do so. He actively attends both chess and othello tourneys. The only posts I generally delete are for example from recent memory:
- A post where the link was in the subject line and there was nothing in the message field. This link isn't clickable because it's in the subject line!
- A joke. I forget what it was or who posted it, some daily poster, but it was just a joke out of the blue having nothing to do with bg. That made me think of the daily gammon forums.
- Announcing we had killed Bin Laden. Not only political but what purpose did this post serve? As if someone would have somehow not heard about it and came to BGO ... "oh really!?"
It isn't just me that didn't know what the MC Open was (still don't btw lol), it was a lot of people apparently since they were asking me on GG. I like that you posted the results and congratulated him, the way you come off you make it sound like I don't. I don't like the way in which it was done is all.
And don't be silly, if I took "stickandhisfriendsplaypenoftopicsthathappenstoincludebackgammon.org" I would have taken the .com address. I only took .org because the other was taken.
I wonder if there is anyone else who thinks what you do, that promoting bg info here is a 'process of grief'? Feel free to speak up, me and my snob friends are all ears.
Stick
ps. So what makes this site better than R.G.B.? Bahahahahaa <---now there's a rgb response for a rgb question.
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