Originally posted by JCSeerup
Originally posted by Lathdari
I'm amused that I come 5th mostly by commenting on my own posts. Well, I guess it might be useful to someone.
Also, I hope it's not too harsh to say, but some of those people (not me!) give better advice than others.
I'm definitely no expert myself, but there are some bad advice given (more now when people just post to gain a higher post count), and there will be on any forum, so sorting out bad advice is your own responsibility when you post a hand.
The thread is called Hand Discussions, so people discuss their and other people's hands, they are not evaluating hands. For example, I always give the opinion of how would I play the hand or what I think about how the villain played the hand and I don't try to teach anyone because if I would be able to teach, I would play much higher than I do.
There was the thread called Hand Evaluations before where the coaches were evaluating hands, so that was a different story. Here we just discuss hands.
As the leaderboard is concerned, it would be alot better and more fair if the words would be counted, not posts. There are people, like MJPerry, for example, which sometimes write an essay about the hand, but it still counts the same as mine - "I think it's well played". I believe it would be very hard to implement, though. Maybe it would also be nice to restrict the amount of money one can receive in a year to, let's say, 150$. With the current system it is theoretically possible and profitable to spam.