Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Anyway, let's be real here.
I'm 48 years old and have a family. Poker has been slowly dying each year. Poker forums are rapidly dying each year.
This is all antiquated 2000s shit which we are holding onto because it's familiar. That's also why most of us are old.
I'm not going to fight an endless war over this. If people want to leave and go to the other site, they can. If people want to post on both sites, they can. If people want to stay here and not go to the other site, they can. That's not my choice to make.
If this place becomes a ghost town, so be it. It has lasted over 8 years with consistent activity -- longer than any of the other sites in this community, even if you combine NWP and DD. The radio show has a mostly separate audience, most of whom don't even look at the forum. That will continue regardless. If this Flying Stupidity subforum contracts in activity because some people quit, so be it. I hope that doesn't happen, but if it does, that's just the way it goes.
I hope at the very least everyone can appreciate that I've run this forum mostly to continue the NWP community. I haven't cluttered it with ads, even though I could have. I have been mostly hands-off, and banned/restricted very few. I've allowed people to troll and bash me, provided it didn't get ridiculously obsessive or extreme. Clearly this wasn't a vanity project in any way. I just wanted to see everything continue in the spirit of the previous sites.
I have a few regrets about how some things went down here -- the cmoney thing being a big one -- but nobody's perfect. I have always run this place with good intentions and with the community in mind. I hope you at least believe that.
The choice is yours as to what you wish to do from this point. Less than two years ago, I was in a miserable state with almost zero quality of life, wondering if I would be stuck that way forever. I promised myself that if I somehow got out of it, I wouldn't let the little unimportant things bother me. I did get out of it, and I have reminded myself to keep that promise. Whatever ultimately happens here, I'm going to be at peace with it.
