Diaries

[Jon MW]

Surely we just put this to a vote? I can see an overwhelming majority voting for Diaries just to have their own board.

I think you're more likely to find that the overwhelming majority aren't too fussed either way

[Ironside]

i am still waiting for the cowboy diary

[GreekStein]

Ohdear - no I would not welcome arbboy back. That's because as knowledgeable as he may be, he was a terrible poster.

If he dropped all that ego and bullshit, then I can't see any reason why I wouldn't welcome him as a member.

[ohdear]

None of the diarists have ever argued against having a separate diary board as far as I'm aware?

I wouldn't mind at all.

someone said it earlier on the thread that the discussion started up once before but it was very quickly swept under the rug and no explinations were given as to why it was dismissed, i think i've made it clear on what my view is about why that probably was

Again, simply incorrect. I will find the thread from a year ago. It ran for many pages and nothing was swept under the rug. Simply not our style. Everything is discussed here, far more openly than I sometimes like!

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you say it ran for several pages and nothing was swept under the rug, just read through it and i couldn't disagree more, it's 8 pages of people mostly joking and laughing around with a bit of debate inbetween, there are a few good posts and arguments as to why diaries should be moved, benefits etc and lot of the stuff that's been raised again in the thread, hardly anything against the idea.

there is one post against it, one single explination as to why they won't be moved, it''s on the very first page before anyone has had a chance to dicuss anything and it's not again in the thread expanded upon or even refrered to, it's from tikay and it says: "It has been debated many times, & for now, we decided they will stay where they are"

any clarification on who it's been "debated" by exactly and why it was decided they'll stay where they are?

[outragous76]

Really this thread?

[ohdear]

Ohdear - no I would not welcome arbboy back. That's because as knowledgeable as he may be, he was a terrible poster.

If he dropped all that ego and bullshit, then I can't see any reason why I wouldn't welcome him as a member.

why do you keep going on about arbboy, im not him, my comment about him was made in response to tightends joke about me being him, my response about him turning up being correct in the end etc was a joke also, in keeping with tightends joke made first, calm down

[Ironside]

None of the diarists have ever argued against having a separate diary board as far as I'm aware?

I wouldn't mind at all.

someone said it earlier on the thread that the discussion started up once before but it was very quickly swept under the rug and no explinations were given as to why it was dismissed, i think i've made it clear on what my view is about why that probably was

Again, simply incorrect. I will find the thread from a year ago. It ran for many pages and nothing was swept under the rug. Simply not our style. Everything is discussed here, far more openly than I sometimes like!

edit http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=51309.0 120 posts

you say it ran for several pages and nothing was swept under the rug, just read through it and i couldn't disagree more, it's 8 pages of people mostly joking and laughing around with a bit of debate inbetween, there are a few good posts and arguments as to why diaries should be moved, benefits etc and lot of the stuff that's been raised again in the thread, hardly anything against the idea.

there is one post against it, one single explination as to why they won't be moved, it''s on the very first page before anyone has had a chance to dicuss anything and it's not again in the thread expanded upon or even refrered to, it's from tikay and it says: "It has been debated many times, & for now, we decided they will stay where they are"

any clarification on who it's been "debated" by exactly and why it was decided they'll stay where they are?

the mods admins and staff and some masters debate this and other topics all the time
and we do take on views of all memebers

[pleno1]

I don't know who of the diarists you're referring to when you say they don't contribute to other threads. Red and Tikay, you've already agreed post loads elsewhere. Greekstein does, mondatoo does, I certainly do (I mean I don't post in the betting section cos it's not my thing) maybe ant doesn't, but his diary is all personal content and he doesn't discuss issues that could be in a separate thread anyway.

I think all the diarists contribute loads to blonde in general, not just from having popular diarys that attract new members, but from their posts all over the forum.
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[cambridgealex]

pleno you contribute 100x more to other threads than you do your own diary!

[gatso]

TBH I'm shocked and dismayed to find that I have obligations and responsibilities.

did your work just phone to find out where you are?

[adnmdv]

I wish oh dear would use capital letters and paragraphs like the rest of us. His posts are so tilting to try and wade through, it's just a big wall of text with the occasional decent point mixed in, it's just not worth the effort anymore.

Reminds me of arboby

ohdear, are you arbboy?

i'm glad i remind you of arbboy, he turned up, got on everyone's nerves, turned out to be completely right though  

No no no.

That idiot came on and tried to tell us something we were unravelling ourselves the proper way. He just made it a more lengthy process and was actually a stumbling block for us finding out about the Blatch scam.

Good fail of a post there though.

well said that man 100% in agreement all these people that think arbboy is some kind of hero have there heads up there own backsides blatch had been caught out before arbboy was even heard of he came on to rubber neck and came up with stuff and made public stuff that the boys in the know working on the case already knew

wait have i just agreed with greekstein must be something in the water normal service will resume soon ;-)

Side track (maybe I should make a new thread ) but this seems like a complete whitewashing. In that thread you had the whole of blonde railing on arbboy, telling him he was wrong...but what you guys are saying now is that you knew all along and it was all a charade on your part, at that time, to play dumb? And that somehow arbboy is the villain here for pointing out what should've been pointed out, not knowing that you guys had some sort of secret plan behind the scenes? What if someone not in your immediate circle wanted to invest in Blatch and was encouraged to do so by those of you who supposedly knew what was going on but didn't want to say?

Apologies for the side track, but reading that just massively tilted me.

[millidonk]

Surely we just put this to a vote? I can see an overwhelming majority voting for Diaries just to have their own board.

I think you're more likely to find that the overwhelming majority aren't too fussed either way

Could be right, only one way to find out..

[ohdear]

Surely we just put this to a vote? I can see an overwhelming majority voting for Diaries just to have their own board.

I think if you did your own vote and it came back 99% in favour of moving them they still wouldn't budge

it does make me laugh seeing that thread from a year ago, 8 pages of people again mostly wanting them to be moved now this one and not a single argument or explination against moving them has been put forward, by anyone, all that's come out is that; "they won't be moved" end of.

does no one find that in the slightest a bit odd?

i am flogging a dead horse here but the reason that a year ago and an 8 page thread and now this one has containing so many arguments for has fallen on deaf ears and not a single reason or argument against moving them has ever come out is because there is 1, and 1 only reason as to why certain people doen't want them moved, it's the ego thing, that's why it won't even be discussed because their are no reasons that, in the face of such support to move them, they should'nt be moved

[jakally]

Love someone coming from a bobybuilding forum, to tell another group that their main problems are ego, and self interest.

[Laxie]

I'd say the reason they've not been moved is because only a small handful even feel strongly about the topic in the first place while most aren't bothered.  

Just because a handful carry on complaining for x (what page are we on here now?) number of pages, doesn't mean it needs doing.