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Originally Posted by huskerdan25
Hey James, I don't know why you felt the need to diss John's league. It is a good league (I'm one of the owners) and while I've seen much better websites for leagues, John is on top of things and is consistent with the sims so far. I run leagues too and we all run them the way we feel is right so let John set up his league and run it the way he feels it should be and if the owners don't like it, then they will leave it. But, I think it was unnecessary for your to do this.
Good luck to both of you and your leagues.
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Well Dan, since we're on a first name basis...
If you had actually paid just a little more attention to my comments, you'll note I indicated that it was going to his site (since I go to many for observation, see who's in it, etc) that prompted the message.
And, again as noted, I was speaking in general. So take it as you will, but my point is intended to speak to leagues that feel compelled to be so private. There's absolutely nothing about his league that would attract my interests. I have nothing to base it on.
In fact, I went back to his site after he wrote to find the Owners List that's in the forums (which I still can't find). I can understand preventing spammers...but you know there are ways around that without being private.
Here's my real point: I'm not a huge fan of forums. In fact, with running my league for 7 years, it's the fact my mailing list sometimes takes a whole day for a message to be distributed that's making me get one for my league.
To have me "sign up" for yet another forum anytime I might want to join a league, just to be "considered". That's more effort than I'm willing to do. I don't force anyone I bring on to sign up for anything. We have a good, honest, mature discussion, and I decide to give them a shot or not. Then I subject them to the getting setup process.
Simpler, less time consuming, and much much less clutter. Not to mention, by doing it this way, I have complete control over unwanted material.
So, Dan...since you felt you had to defend John, let me remind you that you should really make sure you read a message completely before you go firing off for absolutely no reason except to increase your post count. I appreciate the intent of what you're saying, but since you didn't get my point originally, your point is totally irrelevant.
Alas, I'm here to wish John well running his league. Being a Red Sox fan might've propelled me to check his out, but I like knowing who I'm playing with. Playing in leagues for over 13 years has given me that experience to do so.