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Originally Posted by Vesuvio
That strikes me as hubris, or at least unduly complacent. The complaint forums are already much quieter than they used to be. Issues that would have once have provoked well-articulated responses from a wide range of members can now pass almost without comment. General expectations for casino behaviour are much lower now than they were only a year or two ago.
I'm not sure what can be done about any of that, but this current idea seems like throwing out the baby with the bathwater. It'll avoid some annoying posters (though they're not just first-timers!), but everyone's new once, and if this measure discourages even a few posters who would have gone on to be regulars, it'll have had a negative effect.
As mentioned, perhaps restricting new posters from starting threads but allowing them to post in existing ones would be a better half-way house.
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Some posts are passed without comment because for the most part either the issue has been dealt with in-depth before, or the casino in question is already rogued. New users of the Forums are allowed to SEARCH, even if not allowed to post/respond in the complaint section. They can easily see where the issues were discussed in the past. Do we need to re-discuss everything every time a new poster shows up? I think most veteran posters are tired of repeating the same thing over and over to newbies who didn't know about the rogue and not-recommended lists prior to their signup and/or bad experience with a particular casino.
So, not only do they not heed a request to
PAB before airing their problem publically, they also tend to not read the request to TITLE their thread carefully and SEARCH the forums for answers that may already exist. Because of this, they cost all of the long-time users of the forums a lot of energy rehashing issues.
Allowing new posters to
respond to complaint threads? That's rediculous, but it's Bryan's choice. I think a sufficient amount of players around gaming message boards have established themselves as able to manipulate rules to however it seems to serve them. So instead of new threads, we just get the same "XYZ Casino are fraudulant!" embedded in ongoing threads. That would be rather productive, I guess...
- Keith