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it was good:)

It was spam.

C'mon that was funny!

can someone Pm me the link to the site I was going to have a look at that later tonight.

I think removing that was a bit harsh, perhaps just removing the hyperlink would have been more appropriate.

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it was a link to another forum I think

the website has massive banners on it and is therefore considered as bad for blonde so therefore as guardians of blonde the mods removed it

lol theres a link to tonyg poker. (im not intending to spam here by the way)

edit: and its offering 50% rakeback. cmon blonde, cant you come up with some deal like that for the blondes?

blonde provides all it's services for free. Revenue from advertising is important to to us if we are to continue.

If we allow people to advertise for free, why would anyone bother paying?

The person who posted the link was a new member, that was his first and only post. Call me suspicious, but I think he may have a financial incentive.

okay red, i see what you mean about the advertising cause it roped me in:) but i only got curious cause the post was deleted. when i saw the comic i didnt even notice any other links til i went back.  :)up

Like I said red I only wanted ro read the comic, I agree with looking after blonde from non paying advertisers, This site is a business and must put itself first, I would have removed the link from the post as the rest of what i saw seemed to be acceptable.

Just an opinion.

You guys still do a good job though  ;)

Could you leave the comic and delete the spam?

In a word, no. we can't provide free live updates, information services, bounties, freerolls, blonde bashes and a host of other stuff and then offer rakeback from our meagre budget.

It's not mandatory to play at blondepoker, but we are very grateful to those members who support us by doing so.

Yes we could, we're discussing it at the moment. but I think it sends a clear message to spammers if these posts, especially from first time posters, are deleted entirely.

point taken red and there no harm asking for rakeback from blonde. you dont ask, you often dont get:)

By the way that comic is soooo damn funny and true, I can relate to most of the strips.

Then why not delete the thread in the HA board? That was left and just the spam removed.

Dunno mate, I havn't seen that one.

Perhaps I've made a mistake. I do that quite often.

Couldnt do it Flushy ... the post contained a link to the cartoon, which was on a site with rakeback affiliate links ..... if he didnt want to spam he could have pasted the cartoon without the links.

Now stop causing trouble and concentrate on the 60k you mug. you need a big cash so you can come to singapore :)

Yes, the spam was the cartoon!

It's ok guys, I found the comic again.  Here it is.

(http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/4350/cartoonxo3.png)

 rotflmfao

I didn't know that guy from 3rd rock liked banjos....

 rotflmfao

Genius!  ;topman;

Hey guys, I didn't realise it would be considered "spam"... I'm a new member and thought I could post something interesting for you guys to check out as it was in the General Discussion forum which said "Feel free to talk about anything and everything here both on and off the topic of poker". This is nothing to do with rakeback and not intended as advertising which can therefore take away anything from Blonde Poker, it's just a comic strip. That is it. The reason I linked was because there's lots of other comics on the site, not just the one I posted. The comic is hilarious though, it's about time someone made something original like this!

This is NOT meant as spam and I'm not sure if I'm even allowed to post this link again here but as people were actually asking what it was... it was...

Nice to meet you guys, I'm still checking out all the material but there's just too much!!


I have removed it again. it seems you are a slow learner.

Who wrote that?

I think it was RED-DOG that posted that line in my post. It seems I can't do anything right around here. Bit harsh on a new member who doesn't know the forum etiquette to perfection. My apologies. :(

I agree, it was rude and uncalled for.

hey tehmac - I wouldn't worry about it, it takes time to get to know the rules and regulations in a new place, and that's especially difficult when they aren't published anywhere  ;goodvevil;

I don't think there was any need for the slow learner comment either.  Please don't let it put you off - we're generally a friendly bunch round here :)

you can ignore the rule about not feeding the animals - that was amended a long while back, honest!!

 ;whistle;

feast away:

 ;sexybanana; ;sexybanana; ;sexybanana; ;sexybanana; ;sexybanana; ;sexybanana; ;sexybanana; ;sexybanana; ;sexybanana; ;sexybanana; ;sexybanana;

it took me all this time to learn to sway at the same time as the bananas!!

I will save them for later - they wont let me eat bananas during w*rk hours as it takes them forever to get me back down from swinging on the lights :(

Hey guys, I'm the writer of the comic and I saw this thread in the referrers for my site and thought I'd chime in.  I agree with the moderators that linking to a site that features a competing ad can warrant the removal of the post.  I want to point out, though, that the ad on my site was only put up as a favor for a friend and that I don't make a dime off it.  I'll hopefully have paying ads soon, though!

I'd like to thank madasahatstand, tehmac, and Newmanseye for their kind words about the comics.

It was indeed me. The reasons for removal are clearly discussed in the thread, so he can't plead ignorance of the rules, he continues to post someting when I have removed it once and have made it clear it is not allowed.

I'm trying to do a difficult job here. and instead of support from the members I get criticism. That doesn't help me or the newbies.  Why do you think my comment was rude and uncalled for?

IMHO there was just no need for the 'slow learner' comment Red (which, again in my opinion only, is offensive, and bordering on personal abuse).  A simple repetition of the reasons for the removal of the link would have sufficed.  It is clear from his introductory thread elsewhere that tehmac has no financial gain to be made from the site linked to.

That said I, and the majority of blondes, fully appreciate the work all the mods do here, and realise that sometimes it is like walking a tightrope.

I do think it's a bit dim to repost something which had already been deleted and which you'd been told was not allowed.

A little tip Red-Dog - if you edit someone else's post make sure it's clear it was you that made the edit (something like EDIT: RED-DOG at the start) - it'll save possible confusion.

The rules concerning spam are discussed in this very thread, tehmac even refers to them in his post.

I am at a loss as to why on the one hand some of you say you prefer a moderated forum, and on the other you can't wait to leap on what you seem to perceive as a calculated effort to alienate new members. I am doing what I think is best in the interests of blonde, I don't set out to intentionally insult anyone.

I'm sorry that you don't know me better by now.

Thank you for your tip Andrew, but as it happens both Iron and I edited the post at the same time, and it appears to have short-curcited the automatic thingy that says who did the edit.

For your information Claw, I was in the middle of drafting an explanatory PM to tehmac when I had to stop to answer these questions and accusations.

Ah, that explains everything - it was all Ironside's fault... :)

hey - I'm not attacking anyone here - just making the point that the comment could have come across as insulting.  I know, not from personal experience, but close hand, how upsetting it can be for some people to be labelled 'slow learners'.  Perhaps because of that I took the comment with rather more sensitivity than I should - if so, I apologise.

I never suggested that you didn't PM tehmac either Red, and as I said before, but will repeat it, I think you all do a sterling job  :respect:

Let me put this another way. Imagine you had a job that you did to the best of your ability. Then imagine you had 3814 people watching you do it.

They are not in possession of all of the facts, but they tell you, in public, how it should be done. (in their many individual opinions) Then they move on to do something else, leaving you to finish the job that they have, perhaps unwittingly, made so much more difficult.

I'm not grovelling anymore.  I've said my piece.

Before everyone starts blaming Ironside i'd just like to point out that it did originally say that Red-Dog had edited the post - but then because tehmac then went back and modified something after Red's edit it has taken that "last modified by" now shows tehmac instead.

Red I do not believe that anyone was TELLING you how to moderate, Although a few suggestions are always good to keep things ship shape.

I knnow the mods to a great job yourself included but when I read the comment i though you were upset about something as that sort of comment is just out of character for you in particular red, perhaps a smiley would have helped?

The guy made a booboo, he admitted it, he was just sharing something we could relate to and find funny.

I think the trouble is that online you can't see a twinkle in someone's eye or a smile on their face or hear their tone of voice. For Red I imagine it's even harder, because he's such a good writer people are going to give him less leeway for accidentally writing something (in haste or while multitabling or on tilt after a huge outdraw etc) that may possibly come across badly to some people.

Everyone knows for example that I'm a complete moron who can't write proper so I could probably write the exact same thing as Red and cause no offense whatsoever. I have read some stuff that I thought was quite cutting by some posters then met them in real life and realised that there's no way they meant it in the way I took it to mean, it was my lack of understanding what i was reading.

Anyway this proves that I'm a slow learner cos I'm sure I told myself to stay out of the more controversial threads from now on :D

Yes, I was a little annoyed! I deleted a spammy thread last night, I did it while I was busy with several other things. Never the less, I was questioned by the members and I had to take the time to answer their questions. Then, today (when I am also busy) he reads about the reasons for deletion, and promptly posts it again.

I do get tetchy sometimes, and when I do I'm not always at my most diplomatic, but I'm a nice guy really  ;)

This Dog's bark is worse than his bite.

Is that an aploogy then?

I personally think a bit of spam is less damaging to blonde than 'mods' being offensive to new members.

Gosh!

Poor Red's been backed into a corner, was probably doing 4 or 5 things at once (you know how men can't multitask!).

It was a tad curt, but knowing Red, I expect it was made in the best of hearts, and meant to be seen as a playful smack on the hand.

I believe he has tried to make amends....

Mr Newbie, shrinking player bases in line with the current situation (The Oncoming Storm - top marks to those who can spot that reference), has probably made the mods a bit protective of their lovely cardroom. They are all lovely really.

I'm not sucking up to anyone - god knows I wouldn't do that - ask the mods LOL, but lots of bods attacking is a sure fire way to get ANYONE's hackles up, specially a pedigree like Red's. Let him get out of his corner, shake his fur down and then everyone will be a bit calmer :)

Thing is with moderation, is that, like a host at a particularly nice party, you aren't supposed to notice them unless they mess up, usually swearing loudly at the third glass of red wine on their beige carpet. Who knows what has happened in the secret room (they probably still haven't found the kettle) over the last few days - you won't have noticed the crisii they have averted - because they were doing their job seamlessly as usual.

Heid
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you are most welcome:) cant you take the poker adverts off and post your link to your comic? it is worth seeing.
is this allowed mods?

No James, it's an explanation.

Rest assured though, what you personally think is very important to me.

Thank you.

Yes.

Well it's not a big enough deal to me to remove the banner just for this, especially since I might be getting a big sponsor soon and would then have a new ad up anyway, causing the removal of the link again and even more trouble for the mods!  But maybe this will work (in case the following gets edited out, I'm linking to a page that has zero ads on it) --

http://plusev.net/plusev20060811.gif (http://plusev.net/plusev20060811.gif)

That shows the first strip without any ads or anything, just the comic.  New strips run every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and that first strip was on a Friday, August 11, so you could just change the date at the end of that link to 814 for the second strip, Monday, then 816 (Wed), 818 (Fri), 821 (Mon), and so on.

Thats why you are the best mod....

Just wanted to say that there aren't any poker ads on the site anymore, so here's the link to the first comic in the archives if anyone wants to read through 'em!

http://plusev.net/d/20060811.html

awesome dude !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very funny!

Thanks Bobby.