Originally Posted by
theywontpayontuesday
Originally Posted by
kewlJ
Could be. Do you think I care? How much have I participated there recently. It has become a voodoo forum, with Wizard protecting a narcissist full of bullshit and bullshit claims, and restricting, privately and publicly several members, real professional players from challenging anything...probably for money, meaning as he almost always does, the great and powerful one, only believes what he believes until someone pays him to believe something else. In other words: Sell out or tratior to the AP and gambling community he fed us that bullshit that he was here to help!
When is it going to be time for you to start your own forum? KewlJUtopia.com
I have very little experience with WoV. So I'm hoping some of you can throw out some theories regarding a question that baffles me about the MDawg/Shackleford/DarkOz interaction.
Presumably, Shackleford has a comfortable nest egg, income, and situation in Las Vegas. He's the flagship person at a gambling site that emphasizes math and telling it like it mathematically is. It's his face on the site and in the podcasts.
So why, when presented with DarkOz's offer to monitor MDawg, why didn't Shackleford politely turn down the $500 and just offer to formally monitor the MDawg session or sessions for free and report back to the forum. Since MDawg has dominated the forum over there for the last year, wouldn't that be a service to all of the forum members and readers? Wouldn't Shackleford be doing what he would naturally want to do anyway? Why take $500 from DarkOz, and then NOT report details of the session because of an NDA or whatever?
What sense does it make? You take $500. It makes you look small and niggardly. You monitor a session and then disclose that you agreed beforehand to NOT disclose all of the details. That makes you look like you're just stringing people along, and collecting money for doing so.
I just don't get it. I hang out with some major heavy hitters, but I live a rather modest life. I've got to be as tight or tighter than Shackleford when it comes to money, but if I were running WoV, I would have PAID $500 to monitor an MDawg session and report on it. I wouldn't have ACCEPTED $500 and then agreed to NOT fully report on the session (s).
What is the angle here? Why accept $500 and then edit your reportage in front of the alleged hundreds or thousands of WoV readers? That's a major journalistic compromise; a failure, in fact.
The entire event and the decision-making seemed ass-backwards to me.
So can anyone explain why this is the way it went down?