Quote from: efialtis on July 29, 2020, 12:03:06 PM

Some random side note: When browsing through the web I noticed some huge crypto site reporting on our series: https://www.btcgosu.com/blog/news/3-bitcointalk-poker-series-3-qualifiers-left/ Cool

Sick. Pretty sure I've heard of that site. Those folks sound super cool.

Quote from: figmentofmyass on July 29, 2020, 07:59:42 PM

that gives me a little hope that the policy will be fixed. to hear some of the regs tell it, the problem all revolves around "higherhighs" and the recent chat moderation has a lot to do with the dropping on-site traffic.
it's kinda strange that they have a trollbox at all, and it's pretty ridiculous that they apply this policy at tables just because people have been trolling in the trollbox.
it's not enough to make me stop playing the series of course, but it does make me shake my head at SwC.

I was playing quite a bit there as this happened and I think at first people were pissed as they couldn't figure out if higherhighs was a moderator or what. There was also little communication as to what was allowed once moderation began to kick in. The trollbox should have been treated differently from table chat and handled separately. It's legitimately just a spot people sit and goof around from what I can tell, and/or make loan requests. Some keep it open to look for the action call as well I imagine.
It was/is a poorly executed gong show. I appreciate the attempt to moderate their chat from whatever forms of "Hate Speech" existed but the way it's done is likely a greater negative for new players than the trollbox ever would have been.

Funny note on SWC though for the first time in a poker stream - Joe ingram podcast people were calling for him to go play PLO there.

I have had minimal interaction with higherhighs. I made a joke about them showing up to the table and people needing to be quit, they took it in stride and then were eliminated shortly after. So not much to go on there, but I watched them in the trollbox and I didn't notice anything crazy.