The most interesting part about this thread is the handful of posters actually trying to talk sports betting.
Madman Producer and Sonny Seattle both banned ONE DAY. I don’t ever care who started it. Break the rules, and face the consequences. Each of you disrespected the other. THE NEXT TIME either of you post in the other’s thread for any reason – or reference the other in another thread = ONE MONTH BAN. The next time after that = LIFETIME BAN.
There are hundreds of posters to interact with – if you don’t like some of them, simply stay away from them. If you need to agree with each and every poster, then no online community will ever work for you.
Toofdoc . . . somehow you’ve gotten the impression that being disrespectful is a type of straight talk. Straight talk doesn’t require disrespect. ONE WEEK BAN.
For any poster who thinks he is bigger than the community, do me a favor and go back in the forums and pick a random day in 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007 . . . and read through a few dozen posts on the random day each of those years. You will see two things . . . many of the same forum leaders of today AND you will see many usernames that seem important at the time, but then disappear the next year. The ones who get the Pregame mission (helping each other learn to win) stand the test of time, and are among the most important leaders today. For others, the forum is more about their personal needs – and those people don’t last. They are either banned, or leave to complain to their 80 twitter followers, or 5 or so of them ban together to start a forum or a youtube channel – which is eventually abandoned due to lack of traffic BECAUSE communities are not built around personal needs. All the while, Pregame, the community built around learning to win together, gets bigger and stronger and better each year. If you really care, don’t make the same mistake as so many others you’ve never heard of did in the past. And if your efforts at Pregame are really only about your personal needs, then enjoy your time in the spotlight, cause it won’t last.