Random Knife Piercings in some random part in the middle of the country

[Longy]

I understand that the decline in traffic, in some cases does have to do with the fact that some members of the forum don't like the current tone of the forum. In my opinion there are other contributing factors to it.

1. Blonde banned a number of well established members in the last 6-12 months who contributed a lot of posts on a daily basis, i am not saying the bannings were wrong. Yet those people posting and then people replying to them has quite an effect on traffic.

2. The live updates which brought new people to blonde more than any other avenue, are now more infrequent and all domestic based. There is also a certain saturation point we only have so many people play poker on the uk circuit and want to post on here.

3. We haven't had a bash for nearly a year, something that tends to help community spirit greatly.

4. The diaries, I know this is an issue that has been discussed ad nauseam. I am still of the opinion that any newbie is rarely going to want to trawl through 100+ pages of a diary to get a feeling for the forum. When a lot of the interesting stuff discussed within them used to be in individual threads easily accessible and readable within 10 minutes.

[TightEnd]

I understand that the decline in traffic, in some cases does have to do with the fact that some members of the forum don't like the current tone of the forum. In my opinion there are other contributing factors to it.

1. Blonde banned a number of well established members in the last 6-12 months who contributed a lot of posts on a daily basis, i am not saying the bannings were wrong. Yet those people posting and then people replying to them has quite an effect on traffic.

2. The live updates which brought new people to blonde more than any other avenue, are now more infrequent and all domestic based. There is also a certain saturation point we only have so many people play poker on the uk circuit and want to post on here.

3. We haven't had a bash for nearly a year, something that tends to help community spirit greatly.

4. The diaries, I know this is an issue that has been discussed ad nauseam. I am still of the opinion that any newbie is rarely going to want to trawl through 100+ pages of a diary to get a feeling for the forum. When a lot of the interesting stuff discussed within them used to be in individual threads easily accessible and readable within 10 minutes.

You make some great points. 4 I can take or leave but 1,2,3 are almost certainly correct

[titaniumbean]

I find it difficult to accept criticism of fellow members that their tone and consequently the tone of the forum is declining when Flushy one of the sites owners has the worst tone of all. Pls load up any PHA thread and see who is responsible for discouraging contribution. The tone has declined since he bought in? and business is falling since he bought in? Surprise that.

cue the Flushy fanboy's.....

As someone very new to blonde especially the posting side, I see completely where Mantis is coming from. I use alot of forums, poker and otherwise and as a newbie on this forum I have seen nothing other than unhelpful one liners from Flushy (and dont get me wrong others with high post counts too) which I thought was against the ideology of the site especially the PHA section.  (Again I read this thread pre edits and I agree with the reasons behind editing and also love the fact that there are mods online willing to do the edits so quickly), so for that everyone should be grateful, but I also laughed quite hard at some of the shorter responses in this thread and would hate for good hearted banter and flaming of those you know well enough to flame to disappear.

I didn't bother reposting in the thread in PHA that interested me or responding with what I thought there because the cliquey-ness of everyones post made my head spin.

I see a forum with the biggest spread in ages I think I have ever come across, and I see a huge online and live player divide. Yet it seems neither is willing to learn from the other or to accept their difference. Similarly if you aren't in the specific blondite crew of acceptance then the value of your opinion lessens vastly if not completely.

It is a shame, I have taken great enjoyment in reading Tom and TKs diary (and im sickened not to have been in on the larry the lobster fest that's just the best most +EV staking deal ever!) I started to read alot more of the pha and other threads but I really cant be bothered to validate myself everytime I want to post, to the point of acceptance by the 'clique'. From the fact that I am meeting more and more people live and the fact that there seem to be alot of good posters it seems a shame that some of the more prominent people dont seem to be on the same wavelength.

I find it difficult to accept criticism of fellow members that their tone and consequently the tone of the forum is declining when Flushy one of the sites owners has the worst tone of all. Pls load up any PHA thread and see who is responsible for discouraging contribution. The tone has declined since he bought in? and business is falling since he bought in? Surprise that.

cue the Flushy fanboy's.....

its not that i'm bunking in like you say but i dont see the correlation between the sites -%$ and flushy buying in, or for that matter him contributing to the apparant decline on the forum, he was banned 3-4 times before he bought in and if anything has really toned it down since then, i'm not bunking in for him, i just dont see where you're coming from?

Understand dude that this isn't a personal attack. I don't know this fella and from what i've seen of him he's seems like a stand up guy. However, you simply cannot chastise random members of Blonde for discouraging contribution by manner of their tone if you don't want to begin that chatisement process a little closer to home. You can't see the connection with Flushy flaming and members not wanting to post. C'mon??

Bolded to highlight what is true for me.


My 2 pence.

[StuartHopkin]

Ok there has obviously been some misunderstanding here on my part, I deliberately bumped the old thread as i had spotted a name from the past logged in, I suppose a PM would have been a better idea.

What on earth are you almost apologising for? Pretty sure you should be free to bump what ever you like.  

[bolt pp]

I find it difficult to accept criticism of fellow members that their tone and consequently the tone of the forum is declining when Flushy one of the sites owners has the worst tone of all. Pls load up any PHA thread and see who is responsible for discouraging contribution. The tone has declined since he bought in? and business is falling since he bought in? Surprise that.

cue the Flushy fanboy's.....

its not that i'm bunking in like you say but i dont see the correlation between the sites -%$ and flushy buying in, or for that matter him contributing to the apparant decline on the forum, he was banned 3-4 times before he bought in and if anything has really toned it down since then, i'm not bunking in for him, i just dont see where you're coming from?

Understand dude that this isn't a personal attack. I don't know this fella and from what i've seen of him he's seems like a stand up guy. However, you simply cannot chastise random members of Blonde for discouraging contribution by manner of their tone if you don't want to begin that chatisement process a little closer to home. You can't see the connection with Flushy flaming and members not wanting to post. C'mon??

i can see the connection between anyone flaming consistently and members not wanting to post, what i dont get is how all this has supposedly happend since flushy bought in? i can say hand on heart i havnt noticed any single change in him since he bought in unless you've seen something i havnt, are you saying he flames more now he's bought in, i'll be honest i'd say it's been a lot less

[Blatch]

this thread is certainly a cut above

[MANTIS01]

I find it difficult to accept criticism of fellow members that their tone and consequently the tone of the forum is declining when Flushy one of the sites owners has the worst tone of all. Pls load up any PHA thread and see who is responsible for discouraging contribution. The tone has declined since he bought in? and business is falling since he bought in? Surprise that.

cue the Flushy fanboy's.....

its not that i'm bunking in like you say but i dont see the correlation between the sites -%$ and flushy buying in, or for that matter him contributing to the apparant decline on the forum, he was banned 3-4 times before he bought in and if anything has really toned it down since then, i'm not bunking in for him, i just dont see where you're coming from?

Understand dude that this isn't a personal attack. I don't know this fella and from what i've seen of him he's seems like a stand up guy. However, you simply cannot chastise random members of Blonde for discouraging contribution by manner of their tone if you don't want to begin that chatisement process a little closer to home. You can't see the connection with Flushy flaming and members not wanting to post. C'mon??

i can see the connection between anyone flaming consistently and members not wanting to post, what i dont get is how all this has supposedly happend since flushy bought in? i can say hand on heart i havnt noticed any single change in him since he bought in unless you've seen something i havnt, are you saying he flames more now he's bought in, i'll be honest i'd say it's been a lot less

I agree the dude flames less. But I'm reading a thread that is making me lol and suddenly the good people who manage Blonde are saying you shouldn't take such and such a tone because it prevents people who want to post from posting. Now read what Titanium wrote and realise I am simply throwing the same point about tone back to the good people who manage Blonde.

[StuartHopkin]

this thread is certainly a cut above

u have a lot to answer for 

[bolt pp]

I find it difficult to accept criticism of fellow members that their tone and consequently the tone of the forum is declining when Flushy one of the sites owners has the worst tone of all. Pls load up any PHA thread and see who is responsible for discouraging contribution. The tone has declined since he bought in? and business is falling since he bought in? Surprise that.

cue the Flushy fanboy's.....

its not that i'm bunking in like you say but i dont see the correlation between the sites -%$ and flushy buying in, or for that matter him contributing to the apparant decline on the forum, he was banned 3-4 times before he bought in and if anything has really toned it down since then, i'm not bunking in for him, i just dont see where you're coming from?

Understand dude that this isn't a personal attack. I don't know this fella and from what i've seen of him he's seems like a stand up guy. However, you simply cannot chastise random members of Blonde for discouraging contribution by manner of their tone if you don't want to begin that chatisement process a little closer to home. You can't see the connection with Flushy flaming and members not wanting to post. C'mon??

i can see the connection between anyone flaming consistently and members not wanting to post, what i dont get is how all this has supposedly happend since flushy bought in? i can say hand on heart i havnt noticed any single change in him since he bought in unless you've seen something i havnt, are you saying he flames more now he's bought in, i'll be honest i'd say it's been a lot less

I agree the dude flames less. But I'm reading a thread that is making me lol and suddenly the good people who manage Blonde are saying you shouldn't take such and such a tone because it prevents people who want to post from posting. Now read what Titanium wrote and realise I am simply throwing the same point about tone back to the good people who manage Blonde.

blonde isnt disenfranchising, dont listen to him,he's barely got 100 posts and hasnt even got an avatar

[cia260895]

I find it difficult to accept criticism of fellow members that their tone and consequently the tone of the forum is declining when Flushy one of the sites owners has the worst tone of all. Pls load up any PHA thread and see who is responsible for discouraging contribution. The tone has declined since he bought in? and business is falling since he bought in? Surprise that.

cue the Flushy fanboy's.....

its not that i'm bunking in like you say but i dont see the correlation between the sites -%$ and flushy buying in, or for that matter him contributing to the apparant decline on the forum, he was banned 3-4 times before he bought in and if anything has really toned it down since then, i'm not bunking in for him, i just dont see where you're coming from?

Understand dude that this isn't a personal attack. I don't know this fella and from what i've seen of him he's seems like a stand up guy. However, you simply cannot chastise random members of Blonde for discouraging contribution by manner of their tone if you don't want to begin that chatisement process a little closer to home. You can't see the connection with Flushy flaming and members not wanting to post. C'mon??

but he is multai

[titaniumbean]

i can see the connection between anyone flaming consistantly and members not wanting to post, what i dont get is how all this has supposedly happend since flushy baught in? i can say hand on heart i havnt noticed any single change in him since he bought in unless you've seen something i havnt, are you saying he flames more now he's baught in, i'll be honest i'd say it's been a lot less

Fwiw my post relates nothing to a time line of actions as I didn't until a few moments ago know who owned any of blonde! But since I started reading blonde again in the last month I dont think i've seen many worthwhile strat posts esp not from the more prominent post count people.

[cia260895]

anyways going back to the op they have no worries just look what happens in sarrrrrrf london

 if carlsberg done incidents at nightclubs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210210/Man-shot-dead-outside-Ministry-Sound-nightclub.html

[bolt pp]

anyways going back to the op they have no worries just look what happens in sarrrrrrf london

 if carlsberg done incidents at nightclubs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210210/Man-shot-dead-outside-Ministry-Sound-nightclub.html

"reveller is 'decapitated' by car"

"A post-mortem examination on the 25-year-old found he died from head injuries caused by the car"............................erm yeah

[cia260895]

anyways going back to the op they have no worries just look what happens in sarrrrrrf london

 if carlsberg done incidents at nightclubs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210210/Man-shot-dead-outside-Ministry-Sound-nightclub.html

"reveller is 'decapitated' by car"

"A post-mortem examination on the 25-year-old found he died from head injuries caused by the car"............................erm yeah

I know I lol'd @ that as well

only the best for us southerners eh?

[Laxie]

Ahh right, in that case if tighty says it was a female member that leaves claw, suzanne, laxie or kinboshi....

Wasn't me, can promise you that.  I'm one of those odd sorts who's stuck in the middle of the oldies and the young uns.  I often see both points of view but stay out of it for fear of firing it up further.

Every forum on the planet has a certain 'family' feel to it.  Families are made up of people of all ages and in every family there are gains and losses.  It can be difficult for a newbie to settle in, regardless of the 'feel' of a place.  IMO, it's as much up to the new member to make an effort as it is the regulars to try and help newbies feel welcome.  There's a fine balance and sometimes we fall off the beam, but doesn't make blonde a bad place to hang out.  

PS  I do love the banter!