i haven't spent time in strat for awhile since taking a break from poker, but this onslaught of freeloader newbies has prompted me to return.

i am looking forward to contributing here again. it's been an invaluable experience in the past, and i'm committed to learning more from you guys and giving thoughtful insight as much as i can.

please tell me they haven't found strat yet.

please.

i need a safe haven as much as the rest of you.

nope not yet, well except for me...

good to have you back...

cheers.

ryan.

you dont need to lump yourself with those cretins.

glad to have you in strat :-)

A few of them have invaded strat, but the respected strat posters should be able to keep them at bay. It's not nearly as bad as the infestation of general.

Personally I don't think it's a bad thing that there are more people coming to strategy.

There's a much better defined pecking order in terms of respected posters, and that plus general tends to keep the BIG idiots out.

We seem to be getting a lot more basic questions, but I don't think that's a bad thing.

hopefully if they come to strat they are trying to become better players, so I have no problem with that. Just keep the beat stories in the bad beat forum please.

How alone am I in rarely visiting the sections outside of strategy?

This is the stupidest and moist innapropriate thread in strat, so congrats on being the idiot doing exactly what you're worried...dumbing down the strat section

There's no "us", and there's no "them". You're as much of a freeloader as anyone else here since it's a public forum provided entirely at DN's expense. The sooner the long-timers drop the air of entitlement, the sooner we can just get on with discussing poker.

Not that alone.

I go to off-topic to hang out sometimes... that's pretty cool.

General has been abysmal for a while though.

Lol...he said "moist".

Heh heh...heh heh...
Cut that out...I'm trying to be serious here!

good post. i've noticed a lot of "newbies" in strat lately coming in with perfectly legitimate posts/questions/comments and getting abused unnecessarily. i've been here longer than some. i've been here shorter than some. i give better advice than some. i give... ok well we won't be ridiculous

(SW!!!!)

but i'm no more or less entitled to opinions than anyone, and hopefully more people become more welcoming to the "newbs."

Daniel

p.s. moist. haha

this was way out of line.

i really do not appreciate you reacting so violently to a harmless and somewhat playful post. if you had enough emotional intelligence to read the thread as nothing more than a commentary on what's going on at this site, you wouldn't have to reveal yourself as such a short-fused, overly-critical nit.

i'm sorry, you need to calm down.

general has really takin a dive lately. I really have trouble even lookin at posts.

I mostly read the strat sections (to learn) and general (to laugh). So no, you're not alone.

I'm sorry that I offended you but I stand by what I said. Yours was one of a number of posts made to insult the glut of new members. Yes, I could have been a bit more tactful, but I think you are mature enough to handle blunt criticism, so why tiptoe around it?. The joke is an inside one that is not really funny to those on the inside, and it's disparaging to those who aren't. Calling people freeloaders, and making people feel like outsiders is not very insightful commentary on what's going on. It's juvenile to be honest. I do sometimes have a short fuse, but I apologize when I'm wrong, and I dont feel that this is one of those times.

Lately? I stopped reading General about a year ago, 2 weeks after I found this forum I even have a hard time finding time for General Strat anymore...

Mark

Don't worry, I will help you keep those silly noobs at bay.

Just not smart...slightly funny...but not smart :shock:

We should probably let this thread die and move on to questions or strategy comments