DT is manipulated so easily these days, something needs to be done about it. Just the other day one of the Russian trolls wormed his way in, peloso.
We have a situation where the local boards are a problem. All the guys from one nation stick together. The main problems are the Turkish, Russian & Philippines boards. They all circle jerk each other into DT, regardless of whether they trust each other or not. It’s just, ‘oh he’s a fellow countryman, I’ll add him to my trust list’.
They need educating because it’s fucking dangerous. I wouldn’t be surprised to see large scams facilitated by the way the above mentioned boards slip unworthy people into DT.
The old system was better. I always said no matter what you do people will complain but completely overhauling it because of a few whiners just leads to more crying and confusion and changing it to stop one abuse just leads to another and it's obvious now that it's easier to collude to abuse the system. We probably don't know the full extent the abuse goes on in some of the locals, especially ones like the Turkish board. |
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I remember when both Uber or Airbnb each came out. You could save money using them. Now you can't. Isn't there any good Uber or Airbnb type products that run on bitcoin? I was thinking about long distance phone calls. A long time ago you had to pay for that. Then it gradually became free. I'm surprised that we haven't seen that happen with Ride Sharing or even BnB's. Because think about it, both of those are pretty much commodities in society. By now they should be extremely cheap. They should be just a fraction of what is charged by Uber or Airbnb. Especially with a ride share product. The driver could just pull over. Pick someone up, and then earn some bitcoin for driving them, to or at least close to their drop off point. But mainly compete heavily on price to disrupt the whole Uber or Airbnb sectors. Like one day in the same way we say "remember when you had to pay for long distance".... instead people will be saying "remember when you had to pay for a Cab, wasn't that crazy?" I want this to happen somehow soon.  What do you think? Why would bitcoin be able to save you money here? It's just another payment medium, but there's really not enough demand right now to use a specific bitcoin-based service, but if you think there's a gap in the market why don't you create one as you could be the next Uber or Air B & B making billions. Things like travel/transportation and property are not cheap though and cost a lot to both purchase and then keep running hence high prices, but Uber and Air B and B are often cheaper than taxis/hotels. Phone calls are a different matter though because once you have the network up and running the calls are practically free. Unless bitcoin becomes very mainstream - as much as cash or cards - then I don't think we'll see these services and I definitely don't see how doing so would make them cheaper than the rest. The best you could hope for is for more and more businesses to start accepting bitcoin but they probably don't see the demand for it right now as bitcoin is still a very niche thing payment-wise. |
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Going unbeaten in the league would be a huge achievement though and I hope he doesn't throw that away.
But the FA or UEFA doesn't give you any extra awards/silverware for going unbeaten in the league :/ A golden trophy will be presented to them if eventually they stay unbeaten in premier league, it was given to Arsenal back then in 2003-04 Premier league season, it's a unique achievement if you ask me, it's worth playing his first team, regardless of the club he's playing in the Epl, Well, there you go, tomahawk9. Who doesn't want a golden trophy?  Even if you are given a golden trophy this will be forgotten in two years.
No it won't. People still talk about Arsenal's "Invincibles" team. You don't even need to say their name and people know what you mean by The Invincibles. Liverpool are also on track to to beat the Premier League points record and people still talk about City doing that and being the first team to get 100 points which was a huge achievement and will be again if Liverpool do it and maybe even surpass that. If Liverpool win the league and break records I can guarantee you people will still be talking about this for years to come. |
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Going unbeaten in the league would be a huge achievement though and I hope he doesn't throw that away.
But the FA or UEFA doesn't give you any extra awards/silverware for going unbeaten in the league :/ The EPL title is already a massive achievement for Liverpool, but their next target should be winning the CL (back-to-back), not becoming the new "The Invincibles". Going all-in on the unbeaten run (as in being afraid of dropping points so they field the best starting XI vs Norwich or any other team three days before a CL match) would look to me like Klopp & Co are being tryhards. True, but it's still something everybody will talk about and it's a title not many achieve regardless of whether it comes with any silverware or not. There's also no guarantees that Liverpool will win the Champion's League either, and if not, going unbeaten in the PL is something to add on to their domestic title. There's no reason why they can't go for both either. |
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I have read this article: Youth gambling problems: a public health perspective I consider it important for gamblers, Gambling addiction greatly contributes to drug and alcohol abuse and theft. Joining a casino makes you lose a lot of money and smoke a lot of cigarettes and wine, This, of course, will pose a major threat to your health!!! A casino doesn't make you smoke a lot of cigarettes and wine. That's your decision whether to partake or how much you indulge in and if you can't stop yourself from smoking or drinking when you're at a casino then that's a problem you're going to have to deal with along with the gambling if that's become a problem. People really need to start taking responsibility for their own actions and behaviour and only that individual is responsible for gauging when something might be becoming a problem and to stop it. Can crypto really give solutions to gambling addicts?
-Eliminate drug and alcohol addiction.
-Get rid of bad habits like theft.
-Reducing the risk ratio.....
😉Did joining gambling make you addicted to drugs and drink?!!
Good lord, have people really run out of things to talk about regarding cryptocurrencies or gambling now? No. Crypto cannot do anything for gambling addicts. You might as well be asking can bitcoin do anything to stop the corona virus or give peace in the middle east. It's another form or money and people are going to use and therefore abuse it in any numerous ways just like anything else but people are responsible for their own actions. Most people can drink, gamble, eat pizza or any other fast food without developing problems but some others can't, but bitcoin is irrelevant to any problems that may arise from those behaviours. |
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Oh boy I'd definitely like this option. Sometimes, after a night of heavy drinking, I decide to read a few threads on Bitcointalk for a few minutes before I go to bed. It has already happened like around 3 times already that instead of giving 1 merit to certain posts, for some reason my drunk brain instead makes me click on the report button and type the "1" there instead.  Yep. Someone should invent a breathalyser that pugs into the USB that you have to pass before you boot up your browser... or maybe put your credit card details into a site. Might stop a lot of drunken impulse purchases or embarrassing emails to your exes at 2AM . There have been quite a few occasions where I have reported a post or new topic for being low value, spam, off topic, wrong board, etc., and then became suspicious of the content and the user posting it. After a short investigation, I've then ended up reporting those posts a second time for plagiarism. Similarly, I've reported a post for plagiarism, and then gone back and reported it a second time after finding stronger evidence of plagiarism.
Disabling the "Report to moderator" function would prevent me (and others) from doing this, so I would prefer a "recall" function instead.
Maybe the button can be 'semi-disabled', ie it gives you a prompt like you have already reported this, are you sure you want to report it again?. If there's no cool down time, then this is also a good solution for those posts which are unhandled for more than a year. No need to bother the mods and often those posts are outdated so taking them off the queue would be good for the forum.
Maybe also an good thing would be that once or every half year unhandled reports would be canceld as nobody knows to deal with it,
and the most of them are not relevant anymore .
If so you can report it again in a better way when you report it .
Reports are pruned after a short while anyway. I don't know how long unhandled reports stay in the queue but I don't think it's more than a couple of months. |
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I kind of understand why people like premier league as much as they do and that is really good. However looking at the last winners of champions league for example, in the last 20 years, there has been 4 winners of champions league from premier league for example, whereas real Madrid alone won it 4 times in the last 6 years alone.
I am not saying premier league is not good or La Liga is better or anything like that, but maybe we are looking at premier league with a bit of recency bias and think they have always been this good. Unfortunately for many British people, British football wasn't always this good, it has times when it is great and it has times when it is not really that great. However if we look into Serie A that is even worse, they had 3 but last one was 09-10 Inter.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make or even why you're trying to make it, but this is a Premier League discussion thread, not a thread arguing that it's the best league in the world with the best teams and has always been that way. How many times have Real Madrid won their domestic league in the same time frame? Once I think. If you're looking at the past twenty years in the CL, three different English teams have won it compared to just the two from La Liga and as with the league it's usually always going to be between them two. I'm not going to argue which is a better league because it's completely subjective and I don't really have an answer anyway, but I think there's more competition in the PL than La Liga and with not as much of a gap between the top teams. Liverpool also got into the CL final in the previous tournament as well and maybe they'll start to dominate the domestic and Champion's League like Real did, but I don't think people should put too much emphasis on what nationality the clubs that are winning the Champions League are from and as if that's a barometer of the whole of the league. There's always going to be outliers, and of course some teams get the luck of the draw. Liverpool is unbeatable all this time. I think that in this game they are going to lose points.
Champions League games are coming and I think that Klopp will start being more focused on those games, doing some rotation in the next Premier League games.
I seriously doubt Klopp will risk losing any points in the EPL this year. There are three days between the match at Norwich and the match in Madrid, plenty of time for travel and rest. This will be an easy victory for LFC, and they are hungry for the points and setting records. If you're trying to convince yourself that taking the odds on Norwich is a smart move, nothing I say will stop you, but don't bet the rent money. Depends. They can afford to lose points and the League is essentially already won, so he might sacrifice some games for a stronger team in the CL, but I don't think he should though. I think Liverpool only need to win five more games to clinch the league so maybe he can relax a bit after that. Going unbeaten in the league would be a huge achievement though and I hope he doesn't throw that away. |
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1684035.0Yes, there should be some minimum standards required and that's what we tried to achieve with the signature campaign guidelines linked above but when they're not enforced it is going to lead to abuse. Without ramifications for those that don't meet some sort of minimum standards there's going to be little reason for them to start strictly enforcing their campaigns as it's a hell of a lot of work so they just won't do it and then the forum obviously suffers. You can already see the stark difference between campaigns that run them well and the others not so much. When they do nothing we get yobit and wall to wall spam. When there's high standards you get chipmixer where there's close to zero shitposts. [1] All managers ask (or should ask) for "constructive posts". What are "constructive posts"? How can we define constructive posts? Should they be defined as "replies on the subject, no matter their length" (including one liners)? Or should they be considered constructive only if they meet a minimum character length? I saw that some managers accept small posts as being valid for their campaigns, while others don't. No matter if the posts are on subject and usefull; they just deny them. We need a consensus here.
Asking what is constructive is like asking what is good art or music. Completely subjective, but it's usually pretty easy to spot constructive posters from spammers or lazy shitposters. Sometimes a one word answer is all that is required and other times sentences or paragraphs of garbled drivel from people who don't know what they're talking about is far worse and that's why you take things on a case by case basis and weigh up the context of the post.
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In my opinion we can say that their season is not really great so far, but to say he's flopped? I think that's childish and brutally oversimplified. Yeah, calling it a flop is too harsh. I think it's just the weight of expectation on City right now. Take Liverpool out of the table and would people say it's still a flop? Second in the league, still in the CL and probably going to win at least one if not both of the domestic cups. If they blow everything at the end then maybe you can say they flopped, but not right now and given the strength of Liverpool.
No, Pep did build the best Barcelona team ever from the ground up. He changed everything there and no, he does not get enough credit for it because it was Barcelona. I can understand what you are saying, I just do not think that you cannot be deemed great if your first job is at a huge company (club).
I think we'll just have to agree to disagree here. Barca have never really been an average side and whether they have Pep, their current manager, or anyone else they'll likely always finish first or second maybe with the odd exception. I think Pep just joined them at the right time but their success wasn't just down to him and you certainly can't win things without world class players. Also, I don't think you can't be considered great if your first team is one of the huge ones, but you can certainly prove it by getting results with much lesser teams but I can't see Pep going on to mange Stoke or something so he'll likely never have the chance to prove me right or wrong. I think it's an unfair advantage though getting such a big job and never really having to prove yourself by winning things with lesser teams, so it certainly should be taking into consideration if the only teams you've ever managed are the best in the world, at least in my opinion. I do not think he is the greatest ever. I think he is great though. I also think that Leicester winning the Premier league is probably the most unexpected thing in the history of football and I still think Ranieri is a mediocre manager despite that. I wouldn't say Ranieri is better or worse than Pep, just that he had the bigger achievement, but if he went to Barca I doubt he'd fail to win things. I would reiterate again, that I do think people put too much emphasis on managers both positively and negatively. Leicester didn't win the league because of Ranieri; it was because they had a great team and played great football. To say that was down to Ranieri would be unfair, just like it would be to give Pep all or a lot of credit for doing what he did at Barca. It simply does not work like that. Great managers create styles of play. Look how differently Klopp's teams play from Guardiola's. Mourinho's style with 3 centre mids destroyed the Premiership when he arrived. Wenger's 422 that he came with to England did the same. Klopp's striker behind wingers system is ripping the world apart currently. Simeone's fighting style brought huge success to a team that should not have been able to challenge Barcelona or Real on paper. Guardiola's Barcelona had over 1000 passes per game, but the most impressive part of that team was reclaiming the ball that he led to perfection. Murinho's Real was the best counterattacking team in Europe at one point, same as his Inter team with which he won the CL. They all have their styles and they are incomparable to each other.
Again, I think this is mostly down to the players. Swap out all the quality and replace them with average players and I don't think you would see blatantly their influence or they suddenly start playing world class football. If Pep and Klopp switched positions I don't think you would look at the teams and think they were playing completely different football and whether Klopp managed Liverpool or City (or vice versa) I think they would achieve roughly the same but obviously that's just fantasy speculation and something nobody will ever know. |
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I have been reading this forum sporadically for 9 years. Recently I wish to prevent what I view as a move to discredit this forum. Personal vendettas accrued over years of petty squabbling is ruining this forum.
I wouldn't go as far to say it's ruining the forum and their are bigger issues here than beefs, but isn't it then better that people are trying to put their petty squabbling behind them? I only hope more people will put their disagreements aside and move on. People should have never been using the feedback system to wage these battles in the first place though but I still think people should be able to use the feedback system to comment on trustworthiness but neutrals are often much better unless there is strong suspicion or evidence of bad behaviour. His posts are relatively to the point, there aren't any randomly capitalized words, and he has gone more than 2 posts without throwing out any childish insults. He's obviously an alt, but I don't think it's CH/TOAA on this occasion.
I think there's a fair few similarities but obviously too early to tell right now and could just be coincidences. I think if CH/TOAA was going to re-appear on a new account though he'd likely try hide the fact as best as he could. Removing long standing red tags in trade (I remove, you remove) does seem like a bit of an admission that the tags were probably just personal bullshit the entire time..
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It's pretty obvious that's what they were fueled by. It's hard to look objectively at this when the people involved really disliked each other and were just looking for things to try drag the other party down and that's what this was but I'm glad they've called a truce. Threads like this though just seem to be trying to stoke up more drama for something that should just be buried. |
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Poch would not have gotten anywhere with them. Mourinhio likely won't either or any other manager in the world. If Pep went to Spurs would he win the PL or would their style of play radically change? Would Kane start moving like Messi or turn into Aguero? I doubt it. Spurs will likely always just be a top 5 team as the competition is just so strong right now. I mean, they might win something eventually and they came close a few seasons ago but they would have had a good of a chance as any with Poch and now they'll probably just do what every team does and go through new managers every season or two when they don't win anything. Ranieri better than Guardiola? Ok, where does that lead us? Otto Rehhagel better than Alex Ferguson? Because Ferguson would not have won Euro 2004 with Greece. If we take arguments like these, Miroslav Klose is the best striker in the universe and Otto Rehhagel is the best coach in the world.
Ranieri WAS at the squads of a great level throughout most of his carreer. He never won anything else than a crazy title with Leicester - he should be really held high because of that but on Guardiola's level? Let alone on a higher one? I didn't say he was better, I just said it's a bigger achievement which I think it is. Do you honestly think winning the PL with one of the best teams in the world is a bigger achievement than winning it with the team who were odds on favourite to be relegated? If a person goes straight out of business school to the CEO of McDonalds would you say he's the greatest businessman and one of the best because he's in charge of an insanely successful billion dollar company? Neither has built anything from the ground up, Pep just took over a team that was built by the best money can buy and then done the inevitable. And Fergie built Man United into what they became, that's the difference. If Fergie took over United at their height of success and had money to throw at the best players then I'd be saying the same thing about him. It also took Fergie several seasons before he started to win things. Managers don't even get the chance to do that these days. Oh, they are allowed their opinions, sure. I really don't care if I'm right or not and that was not the point. The point is that if Aguero doesn't score in the next 10 games people who watched 7 games of football in their whole life will start calling him crap, there will be more and more of them, people who work in marketing will say 'fuck it, Aguero is starting to become bad marketing for the club, let's sell him and bring in Kane'. Then Kane will score 5 in the next 5 and he will be great. Until he doesn't score again. Social media is full of idiots loudly expressing opinions, without any arguments - just blindly following the horde. Well of course there's always going to be people talking about things they know nothing about but there's also just going to be difference of opinion. You can think Pep is the greatest football manager in the world and I can think he's the most overrated just like I can think Leicester winning the PL is better than City doing it and you can think the opposite, but neither of us is right or wrong. Nope, I'm saying it rarely happens that a manager wins something without a world-class team. Pep took his style and massively improved both Barcelona and City, Bayern not so much. He is getting most out of his players, but if you want to take the maximum from Rory Delap and Danny Higginbotham, then you take Sam Allardyce or Alan Pardew, because their style of football is suited to these players. Guardiola cannot teach Victor Wanyama how to play football and he does not want to play football in which Victor Wanyama needs to play. Pardew needs Victor Wanyama because Rodri and Gundogan do not tackle, jump and run enough for his type of football. And that's why I think people put too much emphasis on managers. Winning things with world class teams is almost inevitable. You'd have to be completely incompetent or have the worse luck ever to not do so. I don't think managers have that much of an influence over the style of play either. Messi plays like Messi not because of who's managing him and no manager is going to make him move any different or run any faster. Assemble the best teams in the world and nine times out of ten they'll win stuff regardless of who's at the helm. He knew Kompany was leaving & really should have looked into replacing him really. As the captain he was more than just a player, he was their leader & really helped carry them over the line.
He wanted to, they cannot spend much because of Financial fair play restrictions - they are already under strict surveillance. He wanted Maguire but was forced out of the deal. Yeah, easier said than done, but it just shows you what effect the financial fair play rules have on teams now when they can't just go out and buy anyone they want. If these had of been implemented ten years ago City would likely still be an average team and definitely wouldn't be where they are now. Seems like the Man City v West Ham match is rescheduled for Wednesday 19th Feb, NOT the 12th , which is what Superbru are displaying .
I was gonna say that seemed too soon and the storms are still raging here so it'd likely get called off again. Agree with toke, surely Pep has to win the CL for this season to be a success for them. He’s got the most expensive squad ever assembled in football. The FA Cup & League Cup are second rate trophies these days. If you’re at a top club & paid big money you get judged on your league position & CL performance. This has to be one of the most pathetic title defences I’ve seen. I know Liverpool are flying but City have just fallen to pieces.
Well it would certainly help, but winning the CL is incredibly difficult with any team so I don't think it's all or nothing. City winning nothing at all this year would be pretty bad though. I think they'll likely win the two domestic cups though unless he puts out shit teams and concentrates on the CL. |
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It just doesn't work like that. Pochettino made a huge, huge job with Tottenham, they laugh at him and call him a man that 'almost won something'. If Guardiola (or Klopp) takes over at Spurs and doesn't win a trophy in the first 2 seasons, everybody will say 'they lost it'. Pochettino should have never been sacked. I find it pretty disgusting that it's become the standard to just dump managers as soon as they lose a handful of games or they don't magically win the league that season. Spurs have incredibly tough competition and Poch did very well with Spurs in the grand scheme of things and he should have been allowed to carry on and who knows where he mighty have got them. Claudio Ranieri was another one that never should have been sacked. Even if he miraculously got them relegated to the Championship - which almost certainly wouldn't have happened - then then they should have stuck with him and tried to get them back to the PL. I'd also say what he achieved is a far bigger accomplishment that anything Pep has done and if Ranieri went into the squads Pep did he'd likely have done just as good. People put too much emphasis on managers these days or give them the credit when they win stuff but it's the squads they've got to work with that win or lose things. We live in a crazy, Twitter-driven world where everybody is entitled to an opinion and 99.9% of these opinions are wrong. It's the same as that joke 'could Messi do it on a rainy night in Stoke'? Yup, he could for Barcelona. And no, he could not for Stoke against Barcelona. That's why top managers go to top teams to be paired with top players. I think people are allowed opinions and they're not wrong just because you disagree with them, but how does one become a top-class manager in the first place? It's usually not because they built themselves up to be so and made miraculous wins. Pep was shoehorned into one of the best teams in the world as his first job. Then went to Bayern who pretty much win everything. Then City which at the time were arguably the best team in the world. The chances of him failing at those sort of clubs is very slim. You could probably not even do anything and just let your captain choose the team and take over training and they'd win things. I don't understand why should a top coach go to Bologna to prove a point? He cannot prove a point at Bologna because Bologna's players cannot play the style that Guardiola demands. He doesn't have to and they likely never would, but if a manager was truly great he should be able to get the best out of his players at any team. To me what you're essentially saying is pep can't win anything unless he has a world class team full of some of the best players in the world, which doesn't make him a good manager in my opinion. Who couldn't win something with City, Barca or Bayern? Why can't he take his style to any side and massively improve them or get them to play his way? I'd just really like to see a manager build a squad from little to nothing or win something with an underdog before I'm going to call them great but winning stuff with the big boys isn't an achievement to me. It's almost an expectation or a foregone conclusion so much so that it's a shock or a scandal when they don't win something. Regarding Guardiola - his contract runs out in summer of 2021 and I expect him to stay at City. Contracts mean very little these days. Clubs can usually sack you whenever they want and if the City board members decide second place just isn't good enough and/or Juve are begging for him he might just decide to leave. I hope he stays on for another season though. The gap is so big now that only a fresh start can give City the boost they need to remain competitive to challenge for the title. |
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I hope this isn't Cryptohunter/The-One-Above-All back from his fantasy vacation. The recent red trust bartering between PN7/quickseller and Laura and friends, is only another demonstration of the mess red trust creates. A very short time before both sides were claiming the other was dangerous, escrow scammers, extortionist and they would not trust them as far as they could throw them.
We now witness the "forgiveness" mutually as suddenly red trust is no longer required by either side. This is now how trust works. You don't go from claiming how dangerous and scammy you believe each other are to trading red marks for mutual alerations and editing of threads presenting evidence you were sure about days before. Jay-z and Nas used to say the same things and now they're best pals. Beefs get squashed. I think this is just more proof that you can't really win with what you do here. People leave negative to attack others and complain about that. Then people decide to remove it and call a truce and people also complain about that. I think what they did is better than just letting the quarrelling escalate and the tit for tat battling go on forever. If theymos removed the trust system - or just negative - I can guarantee you people will also cry about that, especially all those that then go on to get scammed because there were no warnings in place. |
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Someone call the founder.
I called satoshi but he didn't pick up. I hope he's ok. ^^^ The answer is just right above your post. Just read a little, it won't hurt you  LOL. I think OP is at least a semi-troll, much as Kwuckduck was and their usernames are even similar. I don't think he is. He does seem to be to trying some sort of get rich quick scheme with a half-assed ICO though and has been desperately creating threads mostly to try get people to work for him for free  . Either way I think he's wasting his time with it. First thought was well another one is gone, now its semi back to normal. We could maybe keep this as a unconventional repair hotline for the future.
Well I wouldn't panic at the site does go down from time to time but usually not for long, but Meta is kind of the 'unconventional repair hotline' for anything bitcointalk related. |
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Pep flop of the season? What?? Are you all for real?
He is 2nd in the league, still in CL, still in FA cup, in League cup final. He will move his priorities away from the league and that is completely normal so even if the gap will be 30 points by the end of the season that still does not mean that he flopped.
We have so many candidates for the flop of the season and you choose the one team that has outscored Liverpool this season?
Yeah, you can't call a team coming second in the PL a flop, and who know's what other cups they'll win. I agree with trofo about Watford though. They've actually got a pretty good team and have had some great results, just not enough of them. They definitely don't deserve to be fighting relegation. Not really sure what's gone on there to be honest. Come on, Guardiola is changing the perception of football. He is a truly dominant coach, one of the greats, you can also say that Klopp ran away from Dortmund if you twist things like that.
He had 2 first-choice centre backs on long-term injuries throughout the first batch of games, he could not navigate through it and it cost him the title. Now he has to reorganize priorities but his team still outscored Liverpool's.
In my opinion no way is this season a flop, it might be called disappointing or something similar but a flop? Nope, I just don't see it.
I think he's overrated or hasn't really done anything to warrant all the praise. If Guardiola leaves just because they haven't won the PL this year then I'll lose a lot of respect for him. He should stay and fight for the title next season. At least next season it might be a bit more competitive and beating Liverpool to the title will be at least an achievement now because they're so strong and are looking unbeatable so far. I mean, where's he going to go if he leaves City? He'll only go to another huge team like Juve who are almost going to win the league and who can't win the league with them? Same goes for Barca and City, but to run off the first time they don't win something is questionable. I wish these so called great managers would go to a shitty team and get them promoted and then win something major then they'd be considered great in my opinion but they just go from one of the biggest teams in the world to another and that's not really an achievement. You've got to be practically incompetent or have the worse line-ups ever not to win anything with the likes of Barca, Bayern, City, PSG, etc etc. |
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Well guys, looks like games are off today. The City one's definitely called off, can't see if the one for Sheffield is still going on. Storm is well and truly there I guess. Where I am, all games called off even from yesterday and some public transport disruption.
Internet also very unreliable now, but also bitcointalk forum servers pinging me out so much today. Anyone else having the same problems?
@hilarious yeah, you're right and thanks for the share... I have my comfort viewing too, generally from Monty Python but IT crowd and even a bit of League of Gentlemen every now and then. Storm today good excuse to read and rest. See you all later gentlemen!
Yeah, I had some problems with the internet. The storm was crazy yesterday. Some or the heaviest winds and rainfall I've seen. I'm closer to Sheffield than Manchester so I'm surprised that wasn't called off. There'll be a lot of waterlogged pitches today I reckon. Loads of flooding down here. Well guys, looks like games are off today. The City one's definitely called off, can't see if the one for Sheffield is still going on. Storm is well and truly there I guess. Where I am, all games called off even from yesterday and some public transport disruption.
I am watching Sheffield right now and weather looks perfect. No wind, sun is shining... Don't know much about England geography but aren't Sheffield and Manchester quite near each other. About 50 miles or something like that. Correct me if I am wrong. Some weird storm this Ciara, picking which games to cancel  Yeah, they're pretty close. Pretty much the next to each other as far as major cities go. Maybe the storm circled around Sheffield because it wasn't sunny where I was yesterday. I’m 7th now, damn it. I was 1st for ages at one point, definitely throwing the towel in now as far as my designs to win the pool this season go. Oh well, I’ll just have to cheer myself up by watching LFC win the treble What? You have everything to play for in seventh. I'm right below you by half a point and I'm still hoping for a top five spot. I'm not putting money on it as the top 5 are doing really well but I'm only 5 points behind fifth place. The City game has been rescheduled for Wednesday but I'm not sure if the storm will have even passed by then. Snowstorms are meant to be coming as well. Time to get the orange balls out . |
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Glad to see people moving on. Didn't think it would ever happen here. Peace in the middle east next? Bit cringy reading, not gonna lie..
Confusing, forgiving QS while attacking TS.. Hmmm...
Strange times..
Good luck QS..
Do you plan on removing all your reds on Lauda too?
Cringy or not I think people should use this as some sort of seachange or amnesty for all the other petty beefs they're involved with, especially with users who aren't scammers and have just rubbed each other up the wrong way otherwise they'll just continue with tit for tat exchanges for ever and I think there are bigger things to worry about here. |
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Yeah, something is obviously slowing it down, but has anyone noticed it seems to open better in different browsers? For instance, firefox is barely loading and giving me cloudflare errors frequently, whilst Chrome is loading, albeit slowly and I'm seemingly not getting the cloudflare page. I remember this happening previous times when the forum has been running slow as well.
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Well I got that score bang on but so did five others. I'm really tempted to go for the draw on the Sheff United / Bournemouth game but I think Sheff should just pip this game with the home advantage. Man City should have no problem turning over West Ham unless they put out a weakened team but I can't see why they would. City don't really have much to play for at this point though and there's the Champion's League coming up in about ten days time so maybe they'll start to concentrate on that. I was close in Everton match. Had a double mind to pick 3 - 1 but for some fucked up reason ended up with 2 - 1 LOL
Anyway, 1.5 points so far and toke seems making more distance. In this Watford match he has very good chance to manage more 1.5 points however it can end up with a 2 -1 for Brighton too. Watford is not a team to finish a match with early lead. They always mess up.
They're so inconsistent. They often play really well and can be backed at home, but I can't trust them to win away. A point is a good result for them though as they don't deserve to be second from the bottom. I'm hoping they can claw there way out of the zone but they've got some really difficult fixtures coming up. Both Man United and Liverpool up next back to back and I'd be surprised if they can grab more than a point or two in their next five matches so it's not looking good for them. BTW, is anyone from the pool located in Germany? I'm looking to get a German Dazn account if anyone can help me with that or wants to split/share it. |
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And the vast majority of people who use locking legitimately do so in order to prevent 3rd parties from derailing or distracting from the point of the OP. Forcing this cool down window will completely disable ones ability to have a locked thread and result in even more conflict as people play games to abuse that window. Nothing is stopping people from making their own threads to criticize any wrongdoing.
Well, as I said, I'm not sure if the pros would outweigh the cons and I doubt theymos would implement it anyway, but I think your situation would be in the minority here. In those cases I would suggest just self-modding, but as suchmoon mentioned, in this alleged instance it obviously wouldn't work in Meta. I think self-modding is important, but I also think it's important we don't have it in Meta, but I guess you've found a work around that (and not that I blame you for it), but I still think in the vast majority of cases the locking is abused by the nefarious, but again, not sure whether it would be worth changing. Bad idea with a cooldown time , because of this 1 case here , theymos doing the same with hist Trust DTLog thread and its meant that nobody should post in it ! I highly doubt that. I'm pretty sure theymos can just post without unlocking the thread. Admins/Globals can post in locked threads. In fact, maybe any mod can in a thread in their jurisdiction but I'm not sure. I'm guilty of unlocking and locking one specific thread when I need to update it. The thread is in the archival board, so I wasn't able to make it self-moderated, and I don't expect anyone to post in it anyway. Nonetheless, restricting the ability to do so would be a drag.
Otherwise, I think you're right. Most of the time it's used by scammers to bump their threads in the currency exchange, digital goods, and account and invites boards. I can't see Theymos implementing the suggested restrictions, but if I'm wrong I wouldn't mind if those boards are the only ones affected.
But how often do you update it? I wouldn't be for it forever being locked but just possibly restricted to curb abuse. |
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