Re: Dare I say it
Snare,
The intention isn't to prevent less experienced players from posting, it's to keep posts that usually require less discussion from crowding out those that require more. My feeling is that at the moment threads that deserve a lot of attention get bumped off the radar screen too soon, both because there are a ton of simpler hands getting posted and because the players with the most to contribute to those discussions don't stop by much. I feel like a forum split would solve both of those problems without discouraging smaller stakes players from posting.
I'll concede that this will mean simpler hands get less responses from more experienced players than they do now, but I don't see that as a decisive problem for two reasons:
a) On a hand with a pretty straightforward answer, a $50 player can provide almost as much insight as a $500 player. Basically, while I feel strongly about giving back to the forum and trying to help out, I don't think that explaining why cold-calling a 5x UTG raise with KQ in a 4/180 is incorrect is the best way for MLG to give back.
b) The value of having more high-quality posts and discussion, in which anyone would be able to participate, outweighs whatever value would be lost to smaller stakes players when they get fewer responses from Bond and Cornell.
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