Absolutely the most RUDE poker forum on the Internet

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While I am not a frequent poster for various reasons here, I am, however, a frequent reader. This brings me to the point. I read posts on this site everyday for strategy, books, and software and it never fails that when I read the posts from new users of the forum they are berated and treated like idiots for asking what the so called "experts" here perceive as dumb questions. The most recent was a post by a new user named "Brizza" who asked a question about odds calculating software and what would we recommend. For his innocent and lucid question, he was rewarded with a smart ass answer about using fifth grade math from a user I will not name. Go to the post and see and read for yourselves. While a few answers were helpful for him, I do not feel that he needed to read that particular post and that it served him no good. Everyone here knows that you can calculate odds in your head, however, this is not the point. The point is that these kind of replies happen here all the time and it discourages people from asking basic questions involved with poker. While I have the greatest respect for the authors at 2+2, this forum needs help. One would think that with the reputation of the authors here having written the seminal works in poker, this would be the only place to come for advice on the game. Instead, good questions are answered with arrogant juvenile comments implying that the asker is an idiot. Knowledge is gained by the sharing of information, not the ridicule of new players wanting to learn the game.

Respectfully,
Shane

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shane, well said!!!.... this forum is huge on "smart ass"/bitter trolls... i mean, alot of the stuff i see flamed is useful to me and i've read tons and tons online about poker and played tons. wrong to flame anyhow, but alot of the stuff is pretty good anyhow.

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The search function is not that hard to use despite contrary opinion on 2+2.

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You're kidding, right?

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i agree 100%.... use advanced google search on site "twoplustwo.com", works much better than the search engine here which is completely unwieldy.

the only thing i'd somewhat agree on vis-a-vis the repetitive posts is something that has been discussed 100's of times on here. not something that's been discussed 5 times.

one last thing, if people ask about pokertracker or something, they are asking about its utility and relevence today, not 4-5 months ago when it might have been cheaper, different version, different rules at major sites etc... keep that in mind!!

And Uh... YOU'RE WELCOME.

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Shouldnt this be in News Views and Gossip?

[daveymck]

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Here's what I've noticed. If you actually do a little research before you ask a question, 99% of the time the people here are helpful and polite. The burden falls on the person asking the question to do their best to find an answer first, not on the responders to answer the same question for the 50th time.

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This is a very good answer people constantly post stuff where they in effect want their backside wiped for them, make some effort and people here respond in kind.

[Easy E]

Maybe you need to loosen up