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[Brock Landers]

Give JJGOLD back his PM's...whats that all about?!?!

[SBR_John]

There needs to be a middle ground between Player's Talk and Private Zone. It should be an Off-Topic/General discussion thread. Player's Talk should be, at the very least, related to sports. Threads like these don't belong there, but aren't inappropriate enough to be banished to the Private Zone:

http://forum.sbrforum.com/players-talk/626455-my-air-conditiioner-broke.html

http://forum.sbrforum.com/players-talk/627051-invasion-giant-rats.html

http://forum.sbrforum.com/players-talk/626897-bieber-fever-hits-air-canada-centre.html

http://forum.sbrforum.com/players-talk/624661-man-arrested-putting-semen-female-co-workers-water-bottle.html

I mean, threads like these are for users who do not come here to make money. They are not players, they are clowns. Seems ridiculous they are among threads with actual insight on sports.

Hard to argue with KB here.

Although some OT stuff is fine I think.

[flyingillini]

Under SBR picks is the lottery function ever going to be working again? Or is that pretty much done?

[RichardMoss]

Under SBR picks is the lottery function ever going to be working again?

On high season it will

[bobbyfk]

1: Bring back the nomination post button.

2: offer reload bonus using points, not just new book sign up's

3: revamp SBR odds to update the scores faster, they are always behind other scoreboards

other than the above this site is GREAT and thanks for all the hard work you guys do!

[nosniboR11]

sbr john, you need to have the people like bateman, stop the thread making to do nothing but attack another poster, lets just concentrate on all the positive things

[bobbyfk]

There needs to be a middle ground between Player's Talk and Private Zone. It should be an Off-Topic/General discussion thread. Player's Talk should be, at the very least, related to sports. Threads like these don't belong there, but aren't inappropriate enough to be banished to the Private Zone:

http://forum.sbrforum.com/players-talk/626455-my-air-conditiioner-broke.html

http://forum.sbrforum.com/players-talk/627051-invasion-giant-rats.html

http://forum.sbrforum.com/players-talk/626897-bieber-fever-hits-air-canada-centre.html

http://forum.sbrforum.com/players-talk/624661-man-arrested-putting-semen-female-co-workers-water-bottle.html

I mean, threads like these are for users who do not come here to make money. They are not players, they are clowns. Seems ridiculous they are among threads with actual insight on sports.

I disagree with this, if you want to talk about a certain sport then go to that sports sub forum. players talk is good the way it is with those kind of posts above, it makes it interesting, not just ALL SPORTS.

[DrStale]

stop the thread making to do nothing but attack another poster, lets just concentrate on all the positive things

Agreed, too much negativity and poster bashing around here.

Ok JJ, you dumb idiot east coast ****, you think you can make it down here, we will drag you ass behind one of the monster cowboy trucks down here, low class thats far from the truth, and trust me you keep talking fucker

please starve yourself , you anti american idiot, will be a good day when you leave this place

who cares and your days behind fish, now would of been a good story if said a fishhead drowned

shut up little kid

[nosniboR11]

dr stale learn to read, I said starting threads, all my comments are about another comment, but glad you understand idiot

[B1GER1C828]

sbr john, you need to have the people like bateman, stop the thread making to do nothing but attack another poster, lets just concentrate on all the positive things

lol even though such thread you mentioned was about me, i found it funny. It is in fact useless and totally random as me nd him have never had problems. do i give a shit at all about it? no. should it b allowed? prob not but its out of my hands.

[DrStale]

Ahh, my mistake, so we should continue to wish death on others then? Sounds super positive to me.

[jjgold]

Nothing

I like it the way it is

Stop trying to complicate it and have mods making decisions

[clownpuncher]

Nothing

I like it the way it is

Stop trying to complicate it and have mods making decisions

Can't agree more the site has grown by leaps and bounds over the last year and a half

don't touch anything, if you start messing with a good thing the only thing you do is fuk it up!!!!!!

[thechaoz]

My ONE complaint with SBR, which is relatively minor but annoying, is that you have to keep logging into different sections of the website. So I have to log into the forum, then the book etc. I'm not a person (nor should anyone for security) that saves passwords in my browser etc.

If once you logged in you could access all parts fluidly it would make the site interaction much more enjoyable. That is all, thanks SBR for the great site!

PS. Can't wait to start crushing at this poker room

[hankcream]

I think it is great, but not a big fan of posters that continue adding to existing posts that they started earlier. I've seen some posts that might be 5-20 pages long and all it is one guys picks for the last 2 months and you have to go to the last page to get current updates. Couldn't they just link to a spread sheet or previous post so you don't have to wade through all the riff-raff to see what you wanted to see. Otherwise great site.

[hankcream]

My ONE complaint with SBR, which is relatively minor but annoying, is that you have to keep logging into different sections of the website. So I have to log into the forum, then the book etc. I'm not a person (nor should anyone for security) that saves passwords in my browser etc.

If once you logged in you could access all parts fluidly it would make the site interaction much more enjoyable. That is all, thanks SBR for the great site!

PS. Can't wait to start crushing at this poker room

Agree with this

[70kgman]

I 99.9% like it the way it is now but for the sake of being nitpicky (and since you asked )

1. Something needs to be done with points loans. Too many threads are being derailed by posters hunting down other ones to payback loans as it is right now during the slow period. If I remember correctly, there was talk of setting up some sort of neutral body to monitor this. Maybe that could happen?

It would be pretty neat if SBR created some kind of automated point loan add-on. A special loan section where the loaner fills in loanee name, amount to send, amount due back, and date due. The loanee has to hit an approve button for it to finalize. And if the points are not paid back by the listed due date, the owed amount of points automatically get transferred over to the loanee as soon as the stiff gets them. No more Stiffs! and SBR can take some kind of rake off each loan. Everyone wins.

Probably not plausible, but sounds good in concept.

[doublej95]

It would be pretty neat if SBR created some kind of automated point loan add-on. A special loan section where the loaner fills in loanee name, amount to send, amount due back, and date due. The loanee has to hit an approve button for it to finalize. And if the points are not paid back by the listed due date, the owed amount of points automatically get transferred over to the loanee as soon as the stiff gets them. No more Stiffs! and SBR can take some kind of rake off each loan. Everyone wins.

Probably not plausible, but sounds good in concept.

Not a bad idea, how about this idea of SBR offering point loans, daily points would be automaticly deducted from the person each day till the loan was paid off.

[pavyracer]

It would be pretty neat if SBR created some kind of automated point loan add-on. A special loan section where the loaner fills in loanee name, amount to send, amount due back, and date due. The loanee has to hit an approve button for it to finalize. And if the points are not paid back by the listed due date, the owed amount of points automatically get transferred over to the loanee as soon as the stiff gets them. No more Stiffs! and SBR can take some kind of rake off each loan. Everyone wins.

Probably not plausible, but sounds good in concept.

But this doesn't make sense for SBR. SBR is the casino (house). People who give loans and take loans are the players. Casino wins when players lose their chips. Usually good players give loans and bad players take loans. As long as the chips are lost the casino doesn't care how. In fact they will not mind if the chips are lost from stiffing because it reduces the good players chips who are the ones hurting the casino and not the stiffs.

[JerseyShop101]

Imagine if the SBRcasino issued casino credit- Posters would be in debt to the casino on their future points. (30 days worth of points could be good?)

[sportsfun]

till now seems fine. And if it was fine last year, should be fine now I think.

[Bill Dozer]

My ONE complaint with SBR, which is relatively minor but annoying, is that you have to keep logging into different sections of the website. So I have to log into the forum, then the book etc. I'm not a person (nor should anyone for security) that saves passwords in my browser etc.

If once you logged in you could access all parts fluidly it would make the site interaction much more enjoyable. That is all, thanks SBR for the great site!

PS. Can't wait to start crushing at this poker room

chaoz,
Important one. That' on out list too.
Right now if you go to the forum to SBRcontests or SBRodds you should be logged in. The sportsbook software we added runs on sessions so it creates an issue with everything else cookie-ing you in to your acct. We'll think of something soon. For now, your user name will show up in your sportsbook ID box... Half as much to type in.

[Bill Dozer]

This can be rectified easily. Have two PT's.

Have a Sports Players Talk: All generally speaking sports related topics are discussed there. Any non-sports related moves out.

Have a Water Cooler Players Talk: Any topic goes there except those deemed for Private Zone. You can't get it up and want advice? Start a thread there. You saw a nice phone and want some advice? Post there. Your boss is a jack ass? Post there to discuss. You get the idea.

Have a general chat is a good idea. How about it replacing Private Zone?

[B1GER1C828]

Have a general chat is a good idea. How about it replacing Private Zone?

sort of a anything goes section then?

[pico]

brings pags back

[Bill Dozer]

Have a general chat is a good idea. How about it replacing Private Zone?

sort of a anything goes section then?

No, toilet stuff would get flushed.

[70kgman]

This isn't directly related to the forum, but toward the SBR contest page. It would be great if you could choose to send certain contests to a recycle bin out of view on the "my leagues" section. For example, the mlb bracket betting contest is one that runs for a couple months, I got knocked out the first week but I still have it listed in my active contests where it will remain until the entire contest is completed. Others are weekly or monthly contests I have given up on because I no chance of winning and just want them out of the way. Lots of overcrowding. With all the fall/winter sports going on all at once, sometimes I will have 10+ SBR contests going on all at once. It would be nice to be able to remove all the active contests that are no longer relevant to me from view to make it easier to sort through the ones that are relevant to me.

[ryanspeer2001]

More focus on which books should NOT be deposited at. This is a prime time of year for creeper no-pay books to come in and take newbie money. We all know the good books and you guys get sponsered by them but its the dangerous ones that need to be brought to the surface.

[pavyracer]

Have a general chat is a good idea. How about it replacing Private Zone?

You still need the Private Zone. Someone asking a question about how to fix his air conditioner should not be bundled with someone asking a question on how to make his pecker bigger.

But a general chat forum is a must. Threads can be diverted there from PT until people learn how to use it.

[SBR_John]

My ONE complaint with SBR, which is relatively minor but annoying, is that you have to keep logging into different sections of the website. So I have to log into the forum, then the book etc. I'm not a person (nor should anyone for security) that saves passwords in my browser etc.

If once you logged in you could access all parts fluidly it would make the site interaction much more enjoyable. That is all, thanks SBR for the great site!

PS. Can't wait to start crushing at this poker room

We are working on this...its complicated with security issues and different servers but it will be done.

Thanks for all the ideas. As JJ and others have said, things are pretty good...maybe just a few tweaks.

[floridagolfer]

My biggest turn-off is when everyone deems it necessary to start their own thread when one already has been started on the subject. There's no major league baseball game that needs half a dozen threads about it: one says the home team is the lock of the decade, one starts a thread saying the price on the underdog is too good to pass up, one starts a thread about the total, one on the run line, one about the pitching matchups, etc., etc.

I don't have the solution for this, but it would be a lot simpler if all the discussion on a single game could be done in one thread. Talk about whatever aspect of the game you wish, but there's no need for six different threads on one game.

[chachi]

Points / Loans problem could be easily solved ...

1) Make MexicanStallion the moderator of the Points Forum, he alone probably knows best about who is a stiff, who owes what, and who is blowing smoke causing problems which are not legit.

2) Grant him the power, post-investigation, to put a lien on future points earnings on those convicted of "stiffery" back to the lender.

3) Grant him the power, upon multiple infractions, to issue a points ban once said liens are fulfilled.

But, since you guys undoubtedly like the fact that those lending and being stiffed are losing out on their point balance and effectively getting zilch in return, while said points are pissed away in the casino or sportsbook, and thus lowering the overall amount in circulation, I can see how this may be in the forum members best interests but not SBR Forums' best interests.

[B1GER1C828]

Points / Loans problem could be easily solved ... 1) Make MexicanStallion the moderator of the Points Forum, he alone probably knows best about who is a stiff, who owes what, and who is blowing smoke causing problems which are not legit. 2) Grant him the power, post-investigation, to put a lien on future points earnings on those convicted of "stiffery" back to the lender. 3) Grant him the power, upon multiple infractions, to issue a points ban once said liens are fulfilled. But, since you guys undoubtedly like the fact that those lending and being stiffed are losing out on their point balance and effectively getting zilch in return, while said points are pissed away in the casino or sportsbook, and thus lowering the overall amount in circulation, I can see how this may be in the forum members best interests but not SBR Forums' best interests.

they already stated they wont inforce loan debts, so this is sort of pointless.

[chachi]

I know but it is a two-faced position ...

[Brock Landers]

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