some suggestions for party

maybe I got the domain name wrong. The spam led me to beleive that if I typed in that – that i’d end up at the site.

I’ll go play a tourney and see if I don’t get spammed. they’re pretty good about covering territory. It shouldn’t take me too long to confirm the name.

In response to shutting off chat; well to me that is not the option I’d want to choose, as I very much like chatting with SOME of the players; others of course, I wish I could never hear.

And speaking from what I have observed; it appears that there are quite a few people who know each other; that actually stop in to where the game is going on; to just say hello to each other; or to brag about their latest big win.

These people I’m sure don’t want to give up what they’ve got now; and I’d bet that PP doesn’t want things to come to that either. People join poker rooms for more reasons than just because they have a lot of players. As time goes by, PP will see a leveling out of their current big crowd. or perhaps better said, they will see their competitor’s numbers catching up.

That I think should be expected when you take into consideration what a boom PP has enjoyed recent years. In fact, I think its unavoidable.

But if things are allowed to degenerate to the point where players have to shut off all outside chat in order to be able to escape the spam, that IMHO will be a good way to lose the kind of players that again IMHO; an owner would want the most.

*sidenote: I tried making this point to Prima Poker via CR: as Prima is excellent in alienating these types of players. It remains to be seen if they make any changes, but judging from my income from Prima, I’d say they’ve done nothing to improve the status quo.

well here’s what I’ve been told is going on with these places spamming party’s players stats.

that these places uses bots to watch every game, thus accumulating stats on all those that play for real money. That because the bots can keep signing up using different info; that PP can’t keep them out; so rather than fight the impossible, they’ve chosen to agree to some kind of working relationship with these places, of which I’m told there are about 30, and basically turn lemons into lemonade.

now that may be completely wrong. Just what I was told by some players in PP.

the only real bitch I have if any of the above is true; aside from the fact that personally, I don’t think its anybody else’s business what my past play has been, and I don’t like it one bit this info is being allowed out; but I guess as long as I can have access to your past, its a trade-off; but what really bothers me is why can’t PP just come out and say they know what’s going on, and its okay. So I didn’t waste my valuable time reporting the spammers, doing what i thought was damn favor. I feel the very least they could have done in return was to tell me that I need not bother.

Don’t you think?

well I would have to; except for the fact that it seems funny that so much of this spam is allowed to go on.

Surely it hurts PP.

And then there’s the what they said that makes sense; these places are in some way, accumulating these stats.

Why is this allowed to happen? Does PP have control over their own stats info; or not?

then after thinking it over; it does make sense that perhaps they cannot stop the bots from entering and keeping track of the games.

its either that, or they are in cahoots with these sites.

I mean, can you think of any other reason why the players history can so easily be obtained by an outside source?