Should We Allow Password Sharing In The Forum? : General Poker Forum

[rimvis]

The GT forum administrators did not say a word about password sharing for private freerolls in the past and we just ignored this issue. Lately, we had some negative comments from some of the forum members.

Is password sharing ethical? Last freeroll, our GT freeroll password was shared by one of the members as well and most of GT members did not like it. This is the same situation with other forum passwords... I'm sure they don't like it as well.

But, we don't want to make the decision without asking for your opinion first. Should we allow password sharing? Please, give your comments on this issue...

If you chose the last option, be sure to provide your ideas on how to solve this issue.

[poker_james]

The GT forum administrators did not say a word about password sharing for private freerolls in the past and we just ignored this issue. Lately, we had some negative comments from some of the forum members.

Is password sharing ethical? Last freeroll, our GT freeroll password was shared by one of the members as well and most of GT members did not like it. This is the same situation with other forum passwords... I'm sure they don't like it as well.

But, we don't want to make the decision without asking for your opinion first. Should we allow password sharing? Please, give your comments on this issue...

If you chose the last option, be sure to provide your ideas on how to solve this issue.

I think that stopping password sharing would be the correct decision here.

[Ramuncik]

We should stop sharing private tournaments passwords.

[rimvis]

We should stop sharing private tournaments passwords.

Thank you for voting... Still waiting for some more votes before making a decision.

[bi0dileet]

I don't care, more people more fun, but if it's freeroll for our forum, so it should be for us

[girts]

I don't agree with you a bit. If you want to have a very strict closed group of people who will play this tournament then yes, do not share passwords. But, on the other hand this Poker Liberation needs more promotion and more people to participate in other freerolls or even attract them to pay money for playing. Of cource chances to win in tournaments will decrease as more and more players will participate, but then you can really show what you can.

[Ramuncik]

I'm not agree with you a bit. If you whant that a very strict closed group of people who will play this tournament then yes, do not share password. But in other hand this Poker Liberation needs more promotion and more people to participate in other freerolls or even atract them to pay money for playing. Of cource chances to win in tournaments will decrease as more and more players will participate, but then you can really show what you can.

Hmm.. If people will want to play in GT freerolls they will have to participate in these forums, so I think it will bring only more people in forum.

[rimvis]

Hmm.. If people will want to play in GT freerolls they will have to participate in these forums, so I think it will bring only more people in forum.

I'm not sure if everybody is on the same page right now. The passwords for GT freerolls will always be given only to our forum members since this is our forum league. Right now, I'm talking about other passwords like poker stars, full tilt, and etc... That we are not working with and some of the members get the password from somebody else and post it here... Should we allow this kind of password sharing? Poker Liberation is not considered right now.

[Ramuncik]

I'm not sure if everybody is on the same page right now. The passwords for GT freerolls will always be given only to our forum members since this is our forum league. Right now, I'm talking about other passwords like poker stars, full tilt, and etc... That we are not working with and some of the members get the password from somebody else and post it here... Should we allow this kind of password sharing? Poker Liberation is not considered right now.

I understand, but girts was talking about about GT freeroll. I'm still on my opinion that any room's private passwords shouldn't be advertised in this forum

[janark]

I understand, but girts was talking about about GT freeroll. I'm still on my opinion that any room's private passwords shouldn't be advertising in this forum

I second that. I'm a big fan of respecting privacy, being honest etc. and I think it should be clear to everyone, that if a certain tourney is advertised as private, it has a password, and the password is not publicly available, then it is not to be shared. However, many simply can't understand it.

Maybe I'm a bit too rough and straightforward, but in my opinion, the people who are sharing the passwords aren't valuable members of the community and should be instantly, or latest after one warning, banned.

[rimvis]

I second that. I'm a big fan of respecting privacy, being honest etc. and I think it should be clear to everyone, that if a certain tourney is advertised as private, it has a password, and the password is not publicly available, then it is not to be shared. However, many simply can't understand it.

Maybe I'm a bit too rough and straightforward, but in my opinion, the people who are sharing the passwords aren't valuable members of the community and should be instantly, or latest after one warning, banned.

I think you understand that this poll (and our future actions) is due to your previous comments regarding password sharing. This issue was not taken seriously in the past, but when you mentioned it, the admins started thinking about it. Thank you for bringing this up. We will make our decision soon, after the poll is over.

[BlaDeRRR333]

hmm... sometimes it is very cool when someone tells you a great tourney password. But when someone tells Gt freeroll pass it makes me angry so i understand how others are feeling and I think that we should stop that

[girts]

Ups sorry, I misunderstood myself. But I don't change my mind. I think share is good and greed is bad Besides you wont earn all worlds money!!

[janark]

Ups sorry, I misunderstood myself. But I don't change my mind. I think share is good and greed is bad Besides you wont earn all worlds money!!

Generally I want to accept other people's opinion, but in this case, I'll try to make my point a bit more clear.

Just a simple comparison: lets say you're making a house party and plan to offer your friends some free beverages. You invite 20 people and buy 60 cans of beer, expecting that each guest of your's would drink an average of 3 bottles. But when the party starts, there's suddenly 40 people instead of the 20 planned - that's because your friends (quoting yourself) "thought that share is good and greed is bad" and invited their friends over at your party, as well! (without asking your permission for this). The friends of your friends will also drink your beer and in result, every guest will only get 1.5 cans of it and be pretty unhappy in the end.

But hell, after all, you can't drink all the world's bear now can you? ......

[Skyliner]

:blink: janark - i will not give my bear to anyone ! :ph34r: . that's good point about bear. We should stop bear ( and pass by the way ) sharing in this forum.
Janark gave 100% correct example why we must stop doing that .