A comment on posting

[jason_t]

I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] this forum. It's possibly the best strategy forum on the Internet. However, there is one thing that frustrates me that we'd be better off without. It's posts with little substance to them in places where substance is needed. Some of the posts in my KQo thread are a good example. When a thread reaches a certain size, coming in and saying "raise preflop" adds nothing to the conversation.

Here are some examples I saw today.

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i spent a lot of thinking about this and i think you should bet the river

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That was the entire post. No elaboration was ever given at any point in the thread. It should have been given in that post.

Here's another example.

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Not raising the flop is awful

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That's from B Dids' thread. That thread had around thirty posts when that post was made. It's obvious there is debate going on and in particular the debate is exactly about what to do on the flop.

Some spots are obvious and little elaboration is needed. But most of the time people are posting spots that gave them trouble or are interesting. They want to understand. It's for the benefit of everyone in the forum that we elaborate our thoughts. It's for the benefit of the respondee because he had a spot he didn't understand and wants to. It's for the benefit of the responder because by elaborating his thoughts he has to go over the subject in his mind. It's for the benefit of the forum so that intelligent dialogue can take place.

I've mentioned this a few times, but it's reached the point where I feel if I can do anything to curb it we will all be better off.

Please elaborate.