Originally <a href='http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=24931705'>posted</a> on 12/06/2015:

Quote Originally Posted by The Kraken View Post
Opies half way joking brother

So that only makes you half-inferior

#SilverLinings
Opie is the Donald Trump of SBR

Has no business running a forum yet employs several of Donalds techniques including persuasion and making posters see beyond the post (ie making you believe those chucky cheese tokens were worth hunreds of dollars when in fact they were worth far less than that).

The sale he wants to make here is that Opie is a successful game of skill tester managing a vast empire of tokens through his own making. The exact amount of the chucky cheese tokens is irrelevant.

The hundreds of dollars estimate Opie used to value his chucky cheese tokens net worth is an 'anchor' in your mind. Its a classic persuasion/negotiation method.

We remember the 'hundreds of dollars' estimate because it is big, round and sounds outrageous for a chucky cheese game of skill machine. And at the time he kept repeating it too, knowing that repetition is also persuasion...

Posters might be concerned that exaggerating one's value of Chucky cheese tokens is lying and the forum world will not like a liar. But keep in mind that Opie's value proposition is that he will make the forum great.

In other words he wants to bring the same sort of persuasion to the question of SBR's reputation in forum land and no doubt that concept sounds appealing to some posters. The forum needs good brand management whether you think Opie is the right person or not. Obviously he knows the forum needs good execution as well, not just brand illusion as a strong brand gives you better leverage for getting what you want.

And what did you think of opies now infamous video humiliating JJgold? The video was intended to forever paint Opie as SBR's resident bully BUT Opie quickly and cleverly set the anchor as JJGold, a name he could be sure was not popular with his core redneck crowd of posters.

He then went on to casually admit without hesitation that he meant to bury JJ Gold and has said and done other bad things to other posters as well.

Now do you see how the 'anchor' works? If the idea that Opie beats on small overweight bald males had been allowed to pair in your mind with guys you know and think are cool then you would hate Opie. That jerk is against horseshoes, obesity and some of my friends. But Opie never let that happen. At the first moment (and you have to admit he thinks fast) Opie inserted the JJ gold anchor and owned the conversation from that point on.

Now he's not the jerk that insults sbr's favourite posters, he's the straight talker who won't hesitate to insult posters who have it coming (in his view).

Opie, your see through like my ladies silk negligae (minus the attractiveness) but i get it...