What really grinds my gears about Lottery Post and other online forums...

Comment #6

four4me — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:52:34 GMT

Some people must envision Lottery Post as this place where everybody comes and goes and all will have a great day. Lottery post is a mix of young, middle age and old people who come from every walk of life with every personality trait maybe a few with traits yet to be defined. You have to take many posts with a grain of salt. Not let anything get under your skin and move along after the tiff is over. People can and will say things on lottery post they wouldn't say to your face. <br... [ More ]

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jim695 — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:28:05 GMT

Now that I've gotten that off my chest, on to the topic at hand (with apologies to the blogger for the above rant). I have to say that I agree wholeheartedly with Tnplayer805, and some of the things he complains about emcompass the very reasons I stopped posting to the forum. The petty differences, the politics of he said, she said, and the general negativity of the comments being posted eventually proved too much for me. I enjoy a good argument as much as the next guy... [ More ]

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PERDUE — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:12:31 GMT

I agree with you 100% Tnplayer805. Nothing more frustrating than reading a lot of random stuff. Bad enough having to shovel through the negative crap. Sometimes logging on is like watching crabs in a bucket. I enjoy reading a lot of the ideas presented here and testing them on paper in my state. I also like tracking the pick 3 predictions and seeing how they perform in my state. My hat is off to the sys-op of this forum. You are most definately overworked-underpaid-and unappreciated. You have a thankless job. I would like to say thank you for having such a easy to browse forum and opening it up to any and all. THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!... [ More ]

Comment #3

konane — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:25:28 GMT

Hey look on the bright side you may win something which will enable you to do a few things you want to. Be optimistic and create a virtual reality of what you want ..... be open to it becoming concrete reality. :-)

Comment #2

Tnplayer805 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:55:46 GMT

I would like to become a "Paid" Member; however, I'm a broke college student barely getting by as it is. That on top of a terrible economy is taking it's toll. We'll see in about a year after I graduate and get a job as an atmospheric scientist. (Finally!)

Comment #1

konane — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:23:04 GMT

Platinum of course offers more. My favorite feature is Search Past Results if you're trying to figure out how a particular number hit in the past that tool is invaluable. Good luck

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Tnplayer805 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:09:09 GMT

I've been a member here at LP since April of 05... I take part in a lot of online forums and everywhere I go I run into the same problem... People posting useless replies or comments. When I first got here in 05 there was a member by the name Cash Only... If you've been here a while you'll know exactly who I'm talking about... All of his posts were about how people should pick cash option... Blah Blah Blah... Time after time after time.... Every now and then is fine so you can express your feelings but NOT every post should contain the same thing. If you want to take part in an online discussion at least have something meaningful to say. I don't have tens of thousands of posts mainly because it doesn't matter how many posts you have. What matters is insight. This makes reading certain topics enjoyable for the rest. I've even left online forums because I simply got tired of reading the same old thing. Time after time after time after time... I've not seen a lot of that on LP... However, it's NOT a perfect world so we have to put up with it from time to time. Or do we? Since LP has a large number of posters I don't plan on leaving because of it. Instead, I simply block or ignore the user.

Another thing... A certain user wasn't happy with my calling him or her out for doing this... Their response? Since they are a paid member they are running to Todd. Todd, I apologize not for saying what I said but rather the babysitting you have to do. One of my closest friends is an administrator for a popular forum online (with over 25,000 members) and he is always trying to move threads to the proper forum and he deals with complaints about cry baby type stuff such as this on a regular basis. For that I do apologize.

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