OK Barney Stone, I don’t normally respond to your posts but I’m going to make an exception here. This thread has evolved to a criticism of you so I’m not going to get into a discussion of any of the questions you raised on this thread although you did "put words in my mouth". I made the mistake of commenting on the “weeklies” when I really have no interest in discussing that matter. That being said, let me start off this post on the positive side.
You are obviously an educated, intelligent, and motivated person. From your posts, you don’t let anyone push you around and defend yourself vigorously. You speak well and write well. You have a commendable knowledge of math combined with a good analytical mind. But there is something that seems to irritate most everyone on this site.
You complain, complain, and complain some more. When we think you are done complaining, you pop up at another thread complaining some more. When you are done complaining for a while you are telling jokes. Now don’t get wrong, everyone complains. It’s part of human nature. As does everyone tell jokes. Again, it’s part of being human. What I’m trying to say is you carry it to extremes.
Most every active member here makes contributions to blackjack tournament discussions. Some are more on the technical side, some related to casino conditions, some related to the humane side of tournaments, etc., etc., etc. Interwoven with those discussions are jokes, sarcasm, political ideas, questions of freedom and of course complaints in general. But they are all here primarily to discuss blackjack tournaments. How best to play tournaments, where are the best tournaments, creating better tournaments, etc. You, on the other hand don’t do that. You complain without contributing. Let me illustrate how I think members are feeling about you with a story.
Several years ago I had a good friend who felt he was “robbed” out of his inheritance by his step father. He would complain about this every time I talked to him without exception. Got to the point where he only wanted to complain about this 24/7. So I slowly went to see him less and less. When his problem first started, we saw each other about once a week. That changed into once every 2 weeks. Then once a month. Then a couple of times a year. Then finally nothing. I lost a good friend and miss the way he was to this day. I had to leave him because all he was doing was complain, complain, and complain some more. I simply couldn’t take it any more. His constant complains were making me depressed.
My point in telling this story is to emphasize that people don’t want to listen to constant complaints. They log onto this site to see and learn about blackjack tournaments. But you are useless to them. You don’t contribute. You just complain and tell jokes. Well, that gets old, and I mean real old real fast.
In your last post to this thread you answered my question about why you are here. You said “Im here to keep track of events and industry trends!" A good honest response and that conforms to your profile which you wrote about yourself. But I found something lacking in your response. You expressed no interest in learning about blackjack tournaments. Curious, isn’t it?
So, what happens now? You need to resolve the problem you are having with the members. As I see it you have 2 choices:
1) Keep the level of criticism and jokes down to a reasonable level. At the same time, try to make genuine contributions on the FORUM and CALENDER. They don’t have to be brilliant contributions - we only have a few Einsteins here – just good contributions that lead to good discussions.
OR
2) Stop posting. You can learn just as much by being a lurker if you don’t contribute anyway. This way you stay out of everyone’s sight and you still get the information you desire.
I’m done. I’ve done all I can. It’s up to you to make the right decision. Now it’s you call.
You are obviously an educated, intelligent, and motivated person. From your posts, you don’t let anyone push you around and defend yourself vigorously. You speak well and write well. You have a commendable knowledge of math combined with a good analytical mind. But there is something that seems to irritate most everyone on this site.
You complain, complain, and complain some more. When we think you are done complaining, you pop up at another thread complaining some more. When you are done complaining for a while you are telling jokes. Now don’t get wrong, everyone complains. It’s part of human nature. As does everyone tell jokes. Again, it’s part of being human. What I’m trying to say is you carry it to extremes.
Most every active member here makes contributions to blackjack tournament discussions. Some are more on the technical side, some related to casino conditions, some related to the humane side of tournaments, etc., etc., etc. Interwoven with those discussions are jokes, sarcasm, political ideas, questions of freedom and of course complaints in general. But they are all here primarily to discuss blackjack tournaments. How best to play tournaments, where are the best tournaments, creating better tournaments, etc. You, on the other hand don’t do that. You complain without contributing. Let me illustrate how I think members are feeling about you with a story.
Several years ago I had a good friend who felt he was “robbed” out of his inheritance by his step father. He would complain about this every time I talked to him without exception. Got to the point where he only wanted to complain about this 24/7. So I slowly went to see him less and less. When his problem first started, we saw each other about once a week. That changed into once every 2 weeks. Then once a month. Then a couple of times a year. Then finally nothing. I lost a good friend and miss the way he was to this day. I had to leave him because all he was doing was complain, complain, and complain some more. I simply couldn’t take it any more. His constant complains were making me depressed.
My point in telling this story is to emphasize that people don’t want to listen to constant complaints. They log onto this site to see and learn about blackjack tournaments. But you are useless to them. You don’t contribute. You just complain and tell jokes. Well, that gets old, and I mean real old real fast.
In your last post to this thread you answered my question about why you are here. You said “Im here to keep track of events and industry trends!" A good honest response and that conforms to your profile which you wrote about yourself. But I found something lacking in your response. You expressed no interest in learning about blackjack tournaments. Curious, isn’t it?
So, what happens now? You need to resolve the problem you are having with the members. As I see it you have 2 choices:
1) Keep the level of criticism and jokes down to a reasonable level. At the same time, try to make genuine contributions on the FORUM and CALENDER. They don’t have to be brilliant contributions - we only have a few Einsteins here – just good contributions that lead to good discussions.
OR
2) Stop posting. You can learn just as much by being a lurker if you don’t contribute anyway. This way you stay out of everyone’s sight and you still get the information you desire.
I’m done. I’ve done all I can. It’s up to you to make the right decision. Now it’s you call.
