Sky Poker & blonde.

[tikay]

ffs i was not trying to i was supporting mantis and could not understand the hostility towards him

Yes, I know, & I was explaining why the illogical, unacceptable, & inappropriate hostility.

Let's move on, please.

[leethefish]

ffs i was not trying to i was supporting mantis and could not understand the hostility towards him

Yes, I know, & I was explaining why the illogical, unacceptable, & inappropriate hostility.

Let's move on, please.

ok so how much for me to advertise in the lounge

[TightEnd]

ffs i was not trying to i was supporting mantis and could not understand the hostility towards him

Yes, I know, & I was explaining why the illogical, unacceptable, & inappropriate hostility.

Let's move on, please.

ok so how much for me to advertise in the lounge

Let me get back to you when the Monte Carlo finishes please Lee, thanks. I will PM you

[leethefish]

ffs i was not trying to i was supporting mantis and could not understand the hostility towards him

Yes, I know, & I was explaining why the illogical, unacceptable, & inappropriate hostility.

Let's move on, please.

ok so how much for me to advertise in the lounge

Let me get back to you when the Monte Carlo finishes please Lee, thanks. I will PM you

ok thks

[Raman]

I don't know about any previous history Mantis has with any other posters on this forum, but I can see why there is hostility to him from the number of threads I have read that he has posted in. 

His posts are very matter of fact. 

IMO, his posts on this thread are pretty bad.  The gaming industry works very differently to any other industry and you can't imo just transfer over logic and ideas from other sectors and say "there you go". 

I think the best suggestion, I think it was a suggestion anyway was by Mullhuzz when he indicated that in his opinion - again I think its what he meant from reading the post; is to set up a super affilliate link with a newish company.  That way they get all the expertise of blonde in terms of proper target audience, gamblers, poker players, feedback and blonde get a revenue share by pimping them.

Once again, a problem that I see with the sky deal is that as a bookmaker sky are ridiculed because they won't take bets.  Its all one Tikay coming on here and defending that logic but as punters it irks many of us on here when we see them offering a ridic price on a market only not to accept any worth while amount on it.

So ideally you want a company that's not going to shy away from taking a decent bet and either has a decent poker skin on a network or has a stand alone site. 

You then need all those people who harp on about how good this site is and what it means to them to start spending via your sponsors/affilliate partners.

I remember reading on here well before I was an active member that blonde had its own cardroom.  That was no doubt innovative for a forum in its day, but that fell badly by the wayside for the same reasons as I can only assume that the affilliate deals eventually fall through?

[TightEnd]

The card-room closed after we were unable to withstand the (at the time) new network rules and began incurring significant fines. It wasn't down to lack of play (although play was below what is once was).

Now the plan is indeed to secure a partnership with a room in the market with whom most of our members will not have accounts already.

There is also a possibility or two developing of a sponsorship with an organisation in the industry not involving a card-room, more a promotional arrangement

Early days, I'm all ears and reading all feedback.

[tikay]

The card-room closed after we were unable to withstand the (at the time) new network rules and began incurring significant fines. It wasn't down to lack of play (although play was below what is once was).

Now the plan is indeed to secure a partnership with a room in the market with whom most of our members will not have accounts already.

There is also a possibility or two developing of a sponsorship with an organisation in the industry not involving a card-room, more a promotional arrangement

Early days, I'm all ears and reading all feedback.

....and because the Network refused to pay one of our players who had won a hefty 5 figure sum, until we paid the requisite fine, also a 5 figure sum. The fine was, at best, a "third party dispute", & they had absolutely no right to withhold that players money. It was from that incident that the parting of the way emenated.

[TightEnd]

The card-room closed after we were unable to withstand the (at the time) new network rules and began incurring significant fines. It wasn't down to lack of play (although play was below what is once was).

Now the plan is indeed to secure a partnership with a room in the market with whom most of our members will not have accounts already.

There is also a possibility or two developing of a sponsorship with an organisation in the industry not involving a card-room, more a promotional arrangement

Early days, I'm all ears and reading all feedback.

....and because the Network refused to pay one of our players who had won a hefty 5 figure sum, until we paid the requisite fine, also a 5 figure sum. The fine was, at best, a "third party dispute", & they had absolutely no right to withhold that players money. It was from that incident that the parting of the way emenated.

thank you, yes

Unpleasant times.

[outragous76]

arg!

I know we were asked to stop but i believe this mantis input is worthwhile

As I have said before, I have met Mantis (Mark) in the real world and he comes across as a really nice certainly intelligent guy.

Mantis knows exactly what he is doing when he posts on blonde in "his style". I decided long ago to stop commenting to his posts, as it becomes never ending. His posting style is that of a politician, not prepared to lose an argument and changing tack when he needs to. He obviously enjoys the controversy, and the discussion he generates (and I believe he usually posts where he probably believes that there is a point to be made - I am firmly of the opinion it never starts as trolling).

I broke my exception of commenting this week after he es sentally gave rubz to Dan Morgan and then went on to criticise a poster for being critical of him.

I think if you want an argument or even a stern reasoned debate, then feel free to  disagree with Mantis on something and you have 10 pages of lively debate/flaming/name calling (whatever your poison) guaranteed!

I personally cant stand it and to be honest when they kick off, rarely even observe them either nowadays.

This isn't an attack on Mantis (although I accept bits are negative towards him). Just understand what he takes from posting on here.

[TightEnd]

ffs i was not trying to i was supporting mantis and could not understand the hostility towards him

Yes, I know, & I was explaining why the illogical, unacceptable, & inappropriate hostility.

Let's move on, please.

ok so how much for me to advertise in the lounge

PM with you

[TightEnd]

Tightly
I know blonde have an online shopping link for other sites but could you not make it easier to find, like a link at the top of the forum page, ala the news box.
plenty of people shop online, myself included, but at present I just use these sites when I could be using your links.

Yes good point

We have Amazon and Late Rooms links, will put them in the news box

Amazon and late room links are now in the news box top right of forum

[gatso]

Tightly
I know blonde have an online shopping link for other sites but could you not make it easier to find, like a link at the top of the forum page, ala the news box.
plenty of people shop online, myself included, but at present I just use these sites when I could be using your links.

Yes good point

We have Amazon and Late Rooms links, will put them in the news box

Amazon and late room links are now in the news box top right of forum

what news box? I don't have one

[EvilPie]

Tightly
I know blonde have an online shopping link for other sites but could you not make it easier to find, like a link at the top of the forum page, ala the news box.
plenty of people shop online, myself included, but at present I just use these sites when I could be using your links.

Yes good point

We have Amazon and Late Rooms links, will put them in the news box

Amazon and late room links are now in the news box top right of forum

It's too fecking small man!!

Nobody ever notices the news box because to be quite frank it's crap.

They're revenue generators ffs!!

They should be in your face bright colours so that we can't miss 'em.

[TightEnd]

lol, I don't like the News Box at all, too small, a bit pointless

However I can't change the design of the forum software

[david3103]

How about a 'sticky thread' with the links in it at the top of every board?