[matmat]

Most of the time BBO news threads touch on somewhat informative topics or "human interest" stuff which never really piques my interest, but I see how some people might want to read that sort of thing.

Today I saw this:
http://webutil.bridg...etch.php?id=722

This made me LOL. Who picks the bridge related content for this stuff? How on Earth was this one chosen? There must be a few dozen more interesting threads on the forums within the last week that could have been linked to rather than this (imo) misguided and result-driven pet-treatment suggestion.

The median level of play and bidding on BBO is not that high. If we are going to have convention write-ups in the BBO news, why not actually try to focus on some stuff that comes up reasonably often and is frequently abused or misunderstood...

This post has been edited by matmat: 2011-July-20, 14:03

[diana_eva]

matmat, on 2011-July-20, 10:20, said:

Most of the time BBO news threads touch on somewhat informative topics or "human interest" stuff which never really piques my interest, but I see how some people might want to read that sort of thing.

Today I saw this:
http://webutil.bridg...etch.php?id=722

This made me LOL. Who picks the bridge related content for this stuff? How on Earth was this one chosen? There must be a few dozen more interesting threads on the forums within the last week that could have been linked to rather than this (imo) misguided and result-driven pet-treatment suggestion.

The median level of play and bidding on BBO is not that high. If we are going to have convention write-ups in the BBO news, why not actually focus on trying to focus on some stuff that comes up reasonably often and is frequently abused or misunderstood...

It's a hand sent by a BBOer to Support. We encourage people to send us hands and their opinions, then we leave the discussion open by allowing everyone to comment at the end of the article. Anyone can submit hands BTW, there's no pet treatment.

[matmat]

diana_eva, on 2011-July-20, 11:32, said:

It's a hand sent by a BBOer to Support. We encourage people to send us hands and their opinions, then we leave the discussion open by allowing everyone to comment at the end of the article. Anyone can submit hands BTW, there's no pet treatment.

i mean that the convention is obviously someone's pet method.

seems odd to be encouraging people to send things like this to support@ instead of nudging them in the direction of BBF.

[diana_eva]

matmat, on 2011-July-20, 13:38, said:

i mean that the convention is obviously someone's pet method.

seems odd to be encouraging people to send things like this to support@ instead of nudging them in the direction of BBF.

True, we were tempted to send them to the BBF actually. But the guy did submit it via "send us your hand" so we gave it a try. He can see from the commentaries that there's no need to invent new conventions, I think. Also, the hand itself was not bad for a discussion.

[babalu1997]

i agree that the submission should be sent this way, and the bbo news left for celebrities and known experts
the rest of us can have the social stories
the rule of 20 is some lol method , god forbid the rank and file gets even more encouragement from it.

[pooltuna]

into each life some rain must fall

[nige1]

babalu1997, on 2011-July-20, 14:33, said:

... the rule of 20 is some lol method , god forbid the rank and file gets even more encouragement from it

We think it's a useful rule of thumb that encourages us to to allow for shape as well as high cards.