Re: Take a look at your number of posts
Okay guys, we've got a few things here:
1. There are a ton of small stakes posts nowadays. Many of them, particularly subtle strategic ones or ones from posters who are not well know, get lost in the shuffle very quickly.
2. Attempts to make hand posts more noticeable in the flood has led to a growth in obscure, non-sensical, attention-grabbing titles that leads to an arms race which makes the forums really tough to browse. I'll admit that I probably helped this trend quite a bit in my attempt to get responses.
3. Use of the converter to make posts often boils down to converting the hand and posting it; without context, without reads.
4. The small stakes forum is in the somewhat difficult position of handling: a wide array of games, a large number of posters, many who are new to the forums and many who are new to Hold'em or poker in general.
5. I think we can agree that we all like variety, but when the forums get overwhelmed in post traffic, the variety (quests, essays, funny hands, PT stat posts, should I move up? posts, should I raise JJ preflop? posts) feels like it gets in the way of the meat of the forum: discussion of hands and playing strategy.
Some other observations:
The forums are going to continue to grow, and with it the noise to signal ratio, unless:
A) the sub-forums are redifined with a smaller scope.
B) the admins find a way to moderate (or pick moderaters for) content, and not just to deal with spam and porn.
and/or
C) we come up with a fair way to communicate and establish some standards without changes A or B.
We can always ask for A and/or B. I don't know what the 2+2 response would be, but it couldn't hurt to ask.
As for C, I'd leave that up to other people to brainstorm, but I wouldn't be opposed to some basic principles of posting and just saying "listen, I really can't respond to strategy questions without reads and/or with results." Or, I can't respond to 8 posts a day. Or, I can't respond to 5 hands in one post.
edit: I see madtown has beaten me to some of the punch.
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