Re: agree
I have only been playing for 3 years and I don't think I notice much difference in the meanness. It has always caught me off-guard.
Perhaps it was changing gradually enough that I just haven't noticed it.
but the cussing and what-not on Party when I first started there around Sept, 2003 was pretty bad.
First site I ever played poker on (before I had even played live) was PokerStars in Feb, 2003.
Some guy told me what an idiot I was when I called an all-in with A9o on the first hand of an SNG. Mentioned something about a 'crap-hand like that' and he basically made me aware that what I did was a really bad play.
I was so new that I didn't even know there WAS such a thing as a crap-hand (so I googled for poker strategy articles and made my way to 2+2 eventually).
I remember possibly the first ever hand I posted in small-stakes strategy around July, 2003. A B&M 3/6 hand where I gave the relevant details and told another player what I had folded and that he had looked at me like I was a retard for folding as I did.
More than one 2+2'er flat-out told me, "He was correct. you are a retard."
i came on legitimately asking about a hand I was afraid I had mis-played and also admitting that I was still fairly new and still learning. I don't believe I was so cocky as to insist that I knew everything about the game.
But the 'retard' comments that I received were quite intimidating and I remember other posters commenting how intimidating it can be to post in the strategy forums for fear of getting called a moron.
It is true that eventually a couple nice posters answered some of my very basic Q's and follow-up Q's and helped me on my way. I think Nottom might have been one who helped me out (perhaps Homer as well).
I understand getting disillusioned with some of the rudeness on these forums (and elsewhere) but I'm not convinced that we just remember the "good-old days" more fondly for some reason.
I'm not saying that everybody else is incorrect if they think it's gotten worse. I'm really not sure.
but I do know that it wasn't all super-peachy 3 years ago either.
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