chaostracize's loc: - out of my jurisdiction

[MrWookie]

Mat,

That's not what I got at all. I think that "Coaching" and "Coaching see profile" should be treated the same, just like Cit and Jared. I think coaching references should be removed, personally. Unlike blogging which is sometimes non-commercial, coaching is a blatantly commercial endeavor, and if someone wants to use 2+2 to advertise for their coaching business, then they can take out a classified. Especially with the talk of specifically coaching classifieds, I say we nix it now in advance of that. In response to Leader's argument about doing allowing it out of the niceness of our hearts to valuable posters, well, we didn't let Sublime spam his affiliate business in his loc, did we? He's a valuable poster, too. Coaching might not be as lucrative as rakeback, but I still don't think it should get free advertising in the loc field if we're not allowing rakeback there.

If I was to draft some rules, I'd have them look like this:

1. No urls.
2. No mentions of rakeback.
3. No "PM me" or "See profile"
4. No mentions of coaching.
5. Allow "Blogging." Many blogs are free, and as long as 2+2 doesn't have blogging capabilities, I don't want to have to enforce all of these.

[El Diablo]

Mat,

You should either allow coaching references or not. Coaching and Coaching - See Profile are the same. It makes no sense at all to allow the first but not the second.

[Ryan Beal]

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If I was to draft some rules, I'd have them look like this:

1. No urls.
2. No mentions of rakeback.
3. No "PM me" or "See profile"
4. No mentions of coaching.
5. Allow "Blogging." Many blogs are free, and as long as 2+2 doesn't have blogging capabilities, I don't want to have to enforce all of these.

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This works for me. I remember saying the "PM me" stuff should go during one of the older discussions about this. It just seemed easier. And getting rid of any coaching location is an easy to understand rule for everyone too, regardless of how much some will dislike it.

Getting rid of locations completely would probably irritate many posters who like using it for silly stuff. I bet there are a lot more people who would miss the location field than the currently disabled signatures. The site's image would start to become something like this:

The 2+2 Forums
"Have fun somewhere else"

or for an alternate attempt at humor...

If we disable locations, people will start writing letters to this guy:

[ahnuld]

john stossel is awesome for starters. And 2, in MSNL there is a link in the sticky to coaching lists, so its really not a big loss to say that posters cannot put in in their loc. Maybe HSNL can make a sticky linking a list of available 2+2 coaches too?

[citanul]

can we get whatever the decision actually winds up being like put in the sticky for this forum or something? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Mike Haven]

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Coaching and Coaching - See Profile are the same.

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Agreed.

[*TT*]

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Coaching and Coaching - See Profile are the same.

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Agreed.

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Is this a grey area?

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Leader
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Reged: 01/03/05
Posts: 6303
Loc: Learning and teaching the game

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[Mat Sklansky]

That phrase could be applied to any active reader/poster.

[Mat Sklansky]

I stickied Wookie's rules.

[El Diablo]

Mat,

If you're not going to allow mentions of coaching, allowing "teaching the game" seems quite silly.

I mean, right now you're saying that:

"teaching the game" is OK in the loc field, but "coaching the game" isn't. That's confusing to mods and users and a bad policy.