Re: Help a new budding GM

From: David desJardins <desj@math.berkeley.edu>

Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

mmmark@my-deja.com writes:
> The advice was to learn about PBM first. If the person in question does
> not do that then statistically speaking (forgetting Gregory's fine
> sample of one - i.e you) he is going to do more harm than good to the
> industry.

I don't believe you have any statistics that support this claim.  Did
you form a random sample of potential PBM GMs?  Did you perform an
experiment where you taught some of these people about PBM and didn't
teach others, to see how well they do?  And even if you did all of that,
how did you come up with a quantitative measure of whether the net
result was "more harm than good"?

If you really think that you need to defend your hobby against people
with ideas of their own, and that insulting them and driving them away
is better than allowing them to try their own ideas, then that would
explain the relentlessly negative and obnoxious tone of this newsgroup,
which doesn't seem to have had anything to offer PBM players for several
years, except for rare game announcements usually from people who
normally don't post here.

David desJardins

References

Re: Help a new budding GM
"Roy Pollard" <plod@proweb.co.uk>
Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Help a new budding GM
skrenta@pbm.com (Rich Skrenta)
Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Help a new budding GM
mmmark@my-deja.com
Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Help a new budding GM
"Roy Pollard" <plod@proweb.co.uk>
Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Help a new budding GM
skrenta@pbm.com (Rich Skrenta)
Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Help a new budding GM
mmmark@my-deja.com
Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000