FEEDBACK TIME AGAIN...THE SHRINK SUX AND ????

RPM · May 19, 2003

once again you go back and change your post. im not running interference for ANYONE.

I LIKE THE RX, ALWAYS HAVE. my problem here was with joe, not this site.

i dont like it when people like you run around making accusations you cant back up. you do it relentlessly anymore, and i would like to get to the bottom of it.

RPM · May 19, 2003

patrick, plenty of people are looking at this thread. this is the thread for this topic. no need to have another one.

besides, we already have half this discussion in here.

UncleButternutts · May 19, 2003

Awwww,,, now see, "fire in the hole" had to get all nasty on us...lol

Wow, shocking stuff... This should be fun.

PatrickMcIrish · May 19, 2003

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by dogball:
Irish-
One of the most prolific comments I have ever read on the boards-

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Because of that you won't have many people respect this place for long if it doesn't change. If you don't stand for anything you will fall for everything "<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

How'd I miss a compliment in this thread of mean spirited talk about me.

Thanks Dogball though I can't say I made that up. Been hearing that saying for years. I really appreciate the good words from you sir. It never felt so good to say I was wrong about you Dog. You make people respect you yet you tell it like it is. A very admirable quality which no matter who you are is tough not to respect.

Fire - please feel free to join in tomorrow. I will try and keep it top shelf stuff and speak on what I see, good and bad. At the very least hope we can get some answers and maybe some explanations on why things are the way they are. BTW where in the hell is the $80-160 game at? Full table? See you all tomorrow if the creek don't rise.....

RPM - we'll finish tomorrow.

RPM · May 19, 2003

good night.

gbooth · May 20, 2003

It would be cool if you had an ignore feature so posters could ignore the long winded blowhards that like to hear themselves talk.

C.M.

hamneggs · May 20, 2003

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Wendy the Retard:
Patrick-Would it be possible to join you in this little melee tommorow afternoon? What you have been saying is what needs to be said. Although I have said _the same thing_ about a million times before. The difference in styles is why your posts are allowed to stand and mine are sent to the graveyard. I highly doubt that RPSCUM or any of the other lackeys that "work" here will be able to respond to you in an intelligent manner. Maybe Butterporn will just post a picture of a naked little boy to counter your line of questioning. Seems that is his preferred method of response. And RPSCUM will just post about his contests in the event he may somehow receive a kickback from the book. Anyway, I hope you get a chance to read this before it is gone. You are a true poster with the gamblers best interest at heart.

BTW-I hear you play poker? Going to play a little $80-160 right now. Care to join?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Fred, go play cards alone at the library and stop trying to get a date here.

VG789 · May 20, 2003

LMFAO

,thanks hamneggs ,
I just can't stop laughing

Tekari · May 20, 2003

I have 2 suggestions:

1. Especially for football season, maybe you can look into getting software to help track people's records where they can enter the picks into the software. That way TRK won't have to do so much work and everyone that posts can be tracked and no arguing. Not sure if this is feasible but would be very cool.

2. See what is up with bigbetpoker... their download link doesn't work on their site for their software... they havne't made a rx table for us to hold a poker night etc.. they are never around on the board to answer our question for people wnating to sign up... very disturbing.

Just 2 ideas but for the most part everything is great. Keep up the good work.

RPM · May 20, 2003

tekari,

BOTH VERY GOOD SUGGESTIONS!!!

i will try to contact bigbet and see if we can get those problems resolved.

will also shoot the techies an email to see if the record tracking idea is feasable.

thanks!~

lakerfan · May 20, 2003

I am all for second chances for posters who bitch, whine, and fight with others. But allowing an admitted scammer back is DANGEROUS to the people who post here.

That Oh Lucky Me was allowed back is quite scary.

LINK

VG789 · May 20, 2003

why is quite scary?

I guess you can just ignore him,he didnt say anything about your mother did he?

Phaedrus · May 21, 2003

I think that the best thing you could do for the Prescription, is to stop asking what the members want you to do:

They wanted a place to talk about general subjects, so you gave them Offshore.

They didn't like the way it was going, so you gave them Bookie Talk.

They didn't like the way people wouldn't go to Offshore or Bookie Talk to play, so you gave them the Rubber Room.

Politics became a charged issue, so you gave them the Politics and World Events forum.

Now they want a place to store "bad" posts, which would suggest to me that they have never looked in Offshore, Bookie Talk, Politics and World Events, or the Rubber Room. If they had, they'd know that there's plenty of storage space already allocated to stupid shit no one cares about.

I love the Rx. The few people I have told about the Rx, as far as I know, also love it. I think that segregating the rooms was a fairly good idea, but that to continue to do so would be a fairly bad idea. So, here's what you can do to cause a quantum leap in the forum's quality:

Charge for membership.

Charging for membership, even a modicum of a fee, would accomplish a number of things:

1) The Rx could either eliminate advertising entirely, or charge substantially more for advertising and limit it to 'exclusive' arrangements with, for example, one payment company, one sportsbook, one news site, etc.

2) 99% of the worst things about the Rx would vanish overnight, as they would never pay for a membership to anything non-porn-related in a million zillion years.

3) The problem with ghost posting, while a small one, seems to really aggravate users. How much ghosting will a given person do when he has to pay for each individual imaginary friend he uses, and a given imaginary friend becomes useless when it's found out and then he has to go pay for a new one?

4) The value of a given member's contribution to the Rx, or lack thereof, would no longer need be tied to the number of hits his threads get.

5) Without taking votes from the posters, let's be honest: you know who is and is not an asset to the Rx. It is a simple thing to just offer them courtesy memberships, and perfectly within your rights to do so -- after all, you own it, not us.

My $ 0.02

Phaedrus

Dante · May 21, 2003

thank you guys for all your comments and suggetions...please keep them coming.

dogball · May 21, 2003

Shrink started this thread a while ago and the only time he has come back into it was to mock someone before he even posts in here.
Dante- Please advise why we should keep it coming ?
Is it possible anything will come from this is or is it an exercise in futility? Thanks my friend

these new creatures are fun

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THE SHRINK · May 21, 2003

dogball,

Just because I don't respond doesn't mean I am not reading each post carefully...

I think Phaedrus's post says a lot too sir...

When people offer constructive comments, I listen.

When people like Patrick whine all the time and have an obvious agenda, I ignore it...

THE SHRINK

dogball · May 21, 2003

Ken-
Please do not refer to me as sir. As you know, I tried privately e mailing you about some of my suggestions but was unsuccessful in getting a response from you. Not sure if my thoughts are considered valuable or not on this subject but I wanted to express them to you all the same.

Glad to know you visit this thread and consider the input we all offer, I stand gladly corrected on that matter but I am not alone in thinking that your absence from threads like this, after you start them, suggest a lack of concern. To me, this falls under manage relationships better, one of my suggestions.

Phaedrus makes some sharp suggestions, I would be happy to pay a reasonable yearly fee as I am sure you know and would support that if it would make the RX stronger.

As for Pat, I am not sure what is going on between everyone, but I am sure even his detractors would acknowledge he can make some very valuable suggestions and advice. Now that I know you read the thread, I feel differently, but If you started a serious thread about improving the Rx, which I feel Pat can contribute to, and only appear in it again to mock him, I felt that was in bad taste, even if you are on bad terms. Despite everything, I have to feel we all know Pat has The Rx's best interest in mind when he offers criticism.

Thanks and good luck
Hot new avatar

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Prescription · May 21, 2003

THE SHRINK · May 21, 2003

dogball,

did not mean to upset you with the "sir." It is a term I use loosely answering people with respect...

Good post and thank you for caring about this site...

As for me, I have put my heart and soul in it since 1995, when it was just me working on it by myself...

TheRx.com is a direct reflection on me in more ways than you can iamgine and barring my family, it is the most important thing in my life...

Ken