[citanul]

1) many of the social posts are made by the higher stakes players
2) how many high stakes posts do you actually think would be made?
3) how many high stakes players do you actually think are not posting because they think there is clutter?
4) why did the special "all content mostly high stakes forum" die, on the other site?
5) it's really not very hard to scroll through say, 500 posts in less than a minute. they all have their buyin information in the title now majority.
6) this means that if you actually think that the only interesting discussion can come out of the high stakes hands, you could just browse for those *incredibly* easilly.
7) many of the high stakes players have very little interest in this
8) none of the low stakes posters would restrain themselves from posting comments on the high stakes hands, you'd still have to wade through them in the high stakes forum
9) none of hte low stakes players want this to happen, as at the moment high stakes players comment on their hands and they would prefer them to be given less disincentivization from doing so in the future, they want to get better too, and that process will be slowed dramatically if they have fewer high stakes players commenting on their hands.
10) i don't think the desires of the 15 posters who really qualify as high stakes players can possibly outweigh the pile of hundreds of low stakes players who wouldn't want it.
11) i think you'd be shocked at how incredibly quickly the high stakes forum would shrivel up and die, as basically no high stakes player ever cares enough to post about anything. this isn't because they don't like the forum, it's because after a few thousand sngs, really there aren't that many things that are intersting that come up. continuing, a forum with 5 posts a day just wouldn't be that good.
12) didn't we just have this discussion last week? i'm sorry that since the last time this idea came up, a new generation of people have "retired," and a new bunch of the low stakes players have become the grumpy old high stakes players, but come on, s.m.d.

in summary, i think the idea is lousy.

c

editing to add: i didn't read any of the rest of this thread. i'm sure other people have thought or posted about other things. i particularly want to point out number 8. if you think having a high stakes forum would just mean that high stakes players would post there only, you are a moron. anyway, i'm not going to read the rest of this thread either, i'll read responses to my post, and children of that node, but none other.