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Thanks Wil. I know yours is a tough job. I didnt know about todays bannings. I was away all day. Checked in tonight to see how BB did and saw the childness. I'm glad to see you are working on it. Hopefully this will be a reminder for the posters to alert the mods to this kind of behavior so it doesnt go on all day.
Keep up the good work.
tn
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TN, thanks for the kind words, Cheapseats same to you. Keeping a popular capper totally free from questions about his record, or why he likes this or that team sometime makes for a fine line between honest curious players trying to learn and malicious or jealous spoilers who do not like to see someone do well. Over the years here there have been thousands of cappers and quite a few good ones here at The Rx and they all felt the sting of a bash from another poster for no apparent reason. Thus prooving that unfortunately no matter what you do there is bound to be a few bad apples in every barrel that try to ruin threads of sucessful cappers for no real reason.
Personally, I think in Big Bookie's case some posters were just confused about his methods. From what I can gather he was simply telling followers the side he needed in his bookmaking business based on the concept that the public will be wrong enough times more than it's right that if you bet on the teams he needs (the opposite of the teams his clientele bet) you would in the long run come out a winner.
In principle that method depends a lot on the ineptness of Big Bookie's clientele when it comes to picking winners. In otherwords he simply said fade my players and you will win. Natrually this was sure to eventually create controversy as it obviously did today
The trouble was maily contained to his NBA thread.
The Utah Jazz selection of Jazz minus 1.5. was the only selection. Even so in that thread alone I deleted more than 50 posts that were unflattering to use a more or less neutral word.
Here is a post that drew the ire of many followers.
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<HR style="COLOR: #fdde82" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->gl man... whats your record as of now?
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That caused this rather sarcastic post to follow shortly after, creating much more unrest among the Big Bookie followers that would manifest itself later:
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<HR style="COLOR: #fdde82" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->Quote:
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Jckund31
gl man... whats your record as of now?
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thats blasphemy asking for his record. he doesnt have one. can't you see that the emperor wears no clothes.
you werent suppose to ask that
people bet his bets cause he's a nice bookie that wants you to win his money. right big bookie, youre on our side right?
wait that doesnt make sense and like judge judy says, "if it doesnt make sense, its a lie."
whats your record? the nerve of some posters. leave our illusion alone.
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Followed shortly by:
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<HR style="COLOR: #fdde82" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->I dont know what my posted record for NBA is on here
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And now the argument insued. So a simple question followed by a pretty sacastic remark and then an answer that while probably truthful caused some to get on their soap boxes and ruin the thread because of the sentiment shared by many of how dare someone not have a YTD record to post with every release?
A bit later and it comes to stuff like this:
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In the end the play won (in overtime) and all was well except Big Bookie had decided he had enough and made his announcement.
His final post of the day:
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Those are the cliffnotes of what actually happened to cause all this uproar.
The thread ended with this.
05-11-2008, 10:06 PM #55
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Two posters have been banned today for bashing Big Bookie and two warned. Over 100 negative posts deleted. Please check out the top of this forum and read the sticky post that has been there for months. The moderators need your help or the bashers will drive away more posters. There are over 400 active threads everyday with 5 mods, we cannot cover them all. Please help.
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PLEASE show each other at least a small amount of curtesy, all of this bickering and ridicule is getting tiresome and worse than that very counter-productive. All of you are here to try to beat your bookies not each other so again please either post productively or use The Rubber Room if you want to be abusive or unfairly critical. Help each other or if you can't do that than leave well enough alone posters who you may disagree with.
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Thanks, wil.