DON, I FINALLY GET IT. EVEN THOUGH

I never comment about it. I now understand why you have little patience in these rooms with the morons you have to deal with.
On the DOMAIN, a person asks a question and they get an answer. They put a comment out there, and they get feedback. But, it's all normal stuff.
I've never seen a group like this. I'm sure there are some great people in here, but how on earth are you able to decide who's really who? I only mention this because I won't come back on this board anymore, if I have questions, I will post them on rge.
But you know something, in thinking about it, when something is free it attracts every sick bastard there is. If they charged a fee in here, maybe they would get rid of 3/4 of the sickies.
Anyway you're the person who is responsible for making me the great player I have become. I wanted to say thank you, and I Finally get it.

For the record, I agree with every word you've posted (even though it will soon be busted), and I've written to SW as recently as last night to say almost the same thing.

But, he WANTS his board the way it is; that's WHY it's the way it is. I want MY board the way it is; that's WHY it's the way it is! Different strokes for different folks, and yer pays yer money (or not!) and yer takes yer choice!

Don

But you know something, in thinking about it, when something is free it attracts every sick bastard there is. If they charged a fee in here, maybe they would get rid of 3/4 of the sickies.

Closer to 100%, actually. Going from a free page to a Green Chip page is like stepping into the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, all the wackos, trolls and psychopaths that trash the free pages are gone. Manners, decorum and reason prevail. Green Chippers are polite to each other, even when disagreeing (well, most of the time, anyway). It really is quite striking.

This is not a plug for green chip, and I will leave it to the reader to speculate whether this state of affairs is by design. But the fee does, indeed, "get rid of the sickies."

..the non-gambling forum, where discussions can be quite heated. There is some beligerence there as well. But the other forums in green chip do stick to blackjack/gambling. Best to avoid that one if you want to learn more about the game --and keep your blood pressure down!

I don't go there.

If it were up to me, I would eliminate that page, but of course it is not.

Posts here don't get taken down if we observe that the page is filled with weirdos, psycopaths, trolls, wackos, morons, and the like. As long as we don't identify them by name, we can't be accused of a personal attack.

Maybe we should develop some sort of a code, which, when posted below a known sickie's post, would indicate that one need not bother to read it. Since the hosts won't remove the drivel, maybe we can perform a public service!

Any suggestions for the code?

Don

actually, I'm looking for some kind of SCORE-like acronym, such as "R.U.B.B.I.S.H" = Ridiculous, Unadulterated Bullshit, Beyond Incomprehensible, Stupid Horsehit.

But, we can do better, I'm sure! :-)

Don

MOBIUS

A one-sided surface with no beginning and no ending, going nowhere.

M oronic
O btuse
B elligerent
I nfantile
U ninformed
S hit

Jok:)

But I just made a post on the progressions page because the Mayor made a joke about pi that had a tie-in with a subject that I have an interest in: Paul Kramer's data compression scheme. I noted where the math department at the University of Michigan had a post saying that this compression method could not work.

But that compression method is used in every DVD player sold today and works just fine.

Dogmatic clone comments here are an exact parallel to that situation!

till the 6-month forced hiatus kicks in again.

Don

... do you bother maintaining any sort of dialogue at all with this delusional moron? It is a colossal waste of time.

fuzzbuster

See above. I'm done. Promise. Not another word. He can continue his lies and abject nonsense. I have more important things to do in my life.

Don

.. which is to say:

Fear
Of
Losing
Dignity
Eliminates
Replies
Or
Lectures

.. because really, we shouldn't be giving these folks the time of day, no?

M.