sameoldsht
06-02-2005, 03:40 AM
First, here's a disclaimer: I love the 2+2 books and these forums. I have learned a lot from them and they have helped me learn the complex game of poker.
Now here's some criticism from months and months of viewing these forums.
Does the site have an editor for the monthly magazine? Do Mason, David, Ray, etc. consider that the quality of what they write here and how they post it can affect their book sales? Actually, I won't even go into the books. I know there are disclaimers in some of your books about the authors not being, well, "writers". But man...talk about needing an editor.
For example, 2+2 is a "publishing company", yet I read things like this in the June edition of the Internet Magazine:
"One of the new innovations in poker rooms are shuffling machines."
"Not only do they deal less hands, but it's my experience that..."
Both are simply grammatically incorrect.
And:
"If you're playing somewhere and they don't yet have these machines, next a moment to talk to management requesting them."
"Rather it is the fact that the moment I called I said to myself 'Five-our of spades.' "
Both have obvious typos and one has grammatical errors as well.
Ray recently wrote in a post:
"tipping is a sore subject so i thought i would revive it.
since some card rooms have shuffling machines about five more hands an hour are dealt. and dealers have less hand work to do that affects the health of their wrists and hands.
doesnt the more hands per hour equate to a raise for the dealers and less work to boot. should tips be lessend.
most would say no i think. but what if technology brought the speed of the game to 90 hands an hour. should dealers reap that new reward as well. if not are we tipping the amount for the hand or are we paying to increase the dealers hourly rate. if so what to."
Another poster commented that there are no capitalized words in the entire post. I note that there is also a misspelling and a lack of some basic punctuation. A ten year old can spot questions with no "?" at the end of the sentence.
Man, take a moment and review your work carefully. At least run it through MS Word or some software that will alert you to the obvious errors. You are professional writers, right? The subject matter does not matter. Write correctly if you're going to call yourself an author.
Look, I owe most of my poker winnings to your written advice and strategies and I realize that these forums aren't meant to be an English classroom. But I'm an anal Eats, Shoots & Leaves (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592400876/qid=1117695614/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-7741203-5453727) kind of guy and it drives me nuts to read high school level (maybe) writing coming from folks who write "2+2 Publishing Company" beneath their name.
It's kind of like a radio station broadcasting perfectly clearly, but there's a one second interruption every few seconds. You understand what's being said, but it's just annoying to listen to (or read in this case).
Proper grammar, punctuation, etc. makes what you write more easily understood and I am positive that all of you want to be understood or you wouldn't write anything to begin with.
ok rant over. flame away. i'm shore some will find errers in my post allso. please keep writting guys evan if it come in bad formm /images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Peace,
SOS
Now here's some criticism from months and months of viewing these forums.
Does the site have an editor for the monthly magazine? Do Mason, David, Ray, etc. consider that the quality of what they write here and how they post it can affect their book sales? Actually, I won't even go into the books. I know there are disclaimers in some of your books about the authors not being, well, "writers". But man...talk about needing an editor.
For example, 2+2 is a "publishing company", yet I read things like this in the June edition of the Internet Magazine:
"One of the new innovations in poker rooms are shuffling machines."
"Not only do they deal less hands, but it's my experience that..."
Both are simply grammatically incorrect.
And:
"If you're playing somewhere and they don't yet have these machines, next a moment to talk to management requesting them."
"Rather it is the fact that the moment I called I said to myself 'Five-our of spades.' "
Both have obvious typos and one has grammatical errors as well.
Ray recently wrote in a post:
"tipping is a sore subject so i thought i would revive it.
since some card rooms have shuffling machines about five more hands an hour are dealt. and dealers have less hand work to do that affects the health of their wrists and hands.
doesnt the more hands per hour equate to a raise for the dealers and less work to boot. should tips be lessend.
most would say no i think. but what if technology brought the speed of the game to 90 hands an hour. should dealers reap that new reward as well. if not are we tipping the amount for the hand or are we paying to increase the dealers hourly rate. if so what to."
Another poster commented that there are no capitalized words in the entire post. I note that there is also a misspelling and a lack of some basic punctuation. A ten year old can spot questions with no "?" at the end of the sentence.
Man, take a moment and review your work carefully. At least run it through MS Word or some software that will alert you to the obvious errors. You are professional writers, right? The subject matter does not matter. Write correctly if you're going to call yourself an author.
Look, I owe most of my poker winnings to your written advice and strategies and I realize that these forums aren't meant to be an English classroom. But I'm an anal Eats, Shoots & Leaves (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592400876/qid=1117695614/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-7741203-5453727) kind of guy and it drives me nuts to read high school level (maybe) writing coming from folks who write "2+2 Publishing Company" beneath their name.
It's kind of like a radio station broadcasting perfectly clearly, but there's a one second interruption every few seconds. You understand what's being said, but it's just annoying to listen to (or read in this case).
Proper grammar, punctuation, etc. makes what you write more easily understood and I am positive that all of you want to be understood or you wouldn't write anything to begin with.
ok rant over. flame away. i'm shore some will find errers in my post allso. please keep writting guys evan if it come in bad formm /images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Peace,
SOS