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Old 07-31-2007, 09:28 AM
Benjamin Benjamin is offline
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Idiots using your line of logic is why there are no names in the hand histories.

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At the time, the 2+2 Zoo community was evenly split between the HUD and non-HUD camp, with quite a lot of people voting. WPEX decided to try something different.

I think if we redid the poll now, we'd get a different response, heavily favoring HUDs, primarily as a means to draw traffic to the site, but for other good reasons as well.

Before, I was fairly apathetic, with a slight lean toward trying no-HUD. Now, I vote to allow HUDs, as a way to boost traffic and remove ambiguities about policy at the site.

The current situation where HUDs are discouraged, but not prohibited means that if I honor the request not to use HUDs, then I am at a disadvantage to those who do not honor it. And, there is no penalty or attempt to prevent their use, so it is not a good situation.

If WPEX wants to ban HUDs they should do so explicitly and take measures to prevent their use, otherwise WPEX should simply allow them. Keep the limit of 4 tables, don't allow datamining on observed tables, and switch to contributed rakeback: these are plenty of measure to prevent sharks from turning into ocean trawlers.