Diaries

[nirvana]

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?

As I love the arbboy I think it's OK to lol at the idea of him being keen on a BB forum

[nirvana]

point i am trying to make is that the grimm had started to be uncovered on the htread and stuff was comming out before arbboy even joined the forum
people were trying to contact blatch others were saying on the thread to wait and see and arbboy came and rubber necked didnt state much other than you boys have
been grimmed which a few people were already becoming aware of and others counldn't believe dont think arrboy cam up with any facts and figures that wasnt already
in public domain or other betfair regs from this board were finding out
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What he did very well was expose quite how nonsensical the thing was as he was clearly quite knowledgable. His direct calling out of Blatch missing some big betting coups did result in an accelerated confession/end to the sorry saga.

Can't see why anyone would find his contribution anything other than helpful, opened my eyes quickly as I was quite blinkered by wanting Blatch to turn out good in that situation and be the guy I'd met and liked

[bobby1]

i think it was gatso who made the point about one of the most frustrating aspects of the diarys for him is that if someone had something, fun, entertaining etc that they wanted to share then instead of posting a thread about it in the lounge or rail it was just natural for them to automatically go to their favorite diary where 10 or so of there friends post and say: "wow look at this, what do we all think"?, it's become second nature

example of this from yesterday. I don't remember who it was but someone posted a video on tikay's diary about how people aren't very good at walking straight. as far as I can see there's no logical reason for posting it there. it probably got 2 or 3 comments as not everyone reads that thread and stuff on there gets lost in amongst the other stuff. if it had been posted on a new thread something like that would probs run to 2 or 3 pages of comments

The Nando's thread is the nut example of this. It ran to 16 or more pages I think and was basically a question about chicken, rice and side orders.

On the diaries it would have got far fewer replies and been forgotten about when the next subject was brought up.

[bobby1]

Each diary has it's own set of followers and not everyone reads every diary.  Like minds tend to flock together to a certain extent.  Pretty sure people will still go to the diary of their choice to post a topic, even if they're all placed in a new sub section.  Thing is, each diary has it's own special 'feel' and people who read them know what works in them.  They know what's of interest to the 'owner' and like to interact.  Posting those topics in the diary aids the interaction.  

Sure the owners of the diaries like to see people reading, but the readers like to read them too.  It's a two way street.  And fact is, while they may not be one person's cup of tea - there's a whole lot of viewer stats to suggest they appeal to many others.  I don't care if they're moved or not, but I don't believe for a minute they make any part of the forum look messy.  That's just silly.  Doesn't matter if it's a diary or some other thread.  Something's going to turn up there.

In a way that's the prob tho Laxie. I really love reading some of Tom's threads but I don't really read his diary as it is so big and I have missed months of it so need to fill in some gaps. I would read every new topic Tom made cos he is a funny guy. It must be a given that Tom's new thread count has gone down if he mainly posts his stuff on his diary.

I had never given this subject any thought at all until ohdear mentioned it but I do think he has a point.

[bobby1]

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.

That abs isn't true tho, after he posted I read thru the Blatch thread and spotted several things that made no sense, I hadn't read it before then.I agreed with what Arboy was saying and I got grief too. In the end he was spot on, sometimes it pays to listen to what someone is saying but ignore the way they are saying it.

[bobby1]

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.

+1, I got PM's telling me I was wrong to say things about the guy because he was a valued member of the forum and a good mate. Basically had to explain that you could not do what he claimed he was doing without paying the PC or gambling with the kitty on other events and generating commission. Arboy was bang on, he was a pain in the arse in the way he conveyed it but he was right.

[MPOWER]

how much can you bench oh dear?

do you train?

nah i just bought a bmw

 

BMW

Regards

M

[mondatoo]

I'm upto page 9 itt, I haven't read any of ohdear's posts cos they're too long and I'm pissed so cba. But, earlier itt it was suggested people that have diaries are doing it for there own beneficial interests, what are they ? I love blonde but I've no idea what benefits I get from having a diary ?

[cambridgealex]

Really ray? I do the diary mostly for my own benefit - I enjoy it and find it helpful.

[gatso]

I'm upto page 9 itt, I haven't read any of ohdear's posts cos they're too long and I'm pissed so cba. But, earlier itt it was suggested people that have diaries are doing it for there own beneficial interests, what are they ? I love blonde but I've no idea what benefits I get from having a diary ?

pretty pointless reading the thread if you're not going to read ohdear's posts tbh, they're the main point of discussion

admit the lack of paragraphs is rather tilting though

[cambridgealex]

Or just the odd captial letter ffs

[ohdear]

tbf we don't do capital letters or paragraphs on the bb'ing forum i come from, if people understand the words that you've used in a particular order to make a sentence and what the meaning of that sentence is therefore fulfilling the basic principal of communication that usually suffices    

in my defence since you last said it my last 4 or 5 posts have been better structured no?

[gatso]

Or just the odd captial letter ffs

screw that, abs no need for capitalisation on t'internet. paragraphs however make things readable

[cambridgealex]

Its like you're a caveman

[nirvana]

tbf we don't do capital letters or paragraphs on the bb'ing forum i come from, if people understand the words that you've used in a particular order to make a sentence and what the meaning of that sentence is therefore fulfilling the basic principal of communication that usually suffices    

in my defence since you last said it my last 4 or 5 posts have been better structured no?

Since you have taken the first step to improving your written communication I feel able to offer some advice

In addition to paragraphs, I suggest you introduce more sentences. This is easier than improving grammar.

A significant reduction in word count would help too