that you drank yesterday to turn you hair green.  Glad to see you had enough mochas this morning to wash it out.

~Mark

Always enjoy reading your comments in the forums.  Hope you have a good St. Patrick's day.

~foley1362

I love your user name! I like to get  the German mocha at Biggby's evry Monday after work. Would like to play a round or so, maybe even be a friend.

I have been drinking coffee since I was 9 or 10 years old by the way!

Greg.

It so happened I was involved in an "Olympic project" that captured the attention of national media here in Slovakia... Had no time whatsoever for online golf for much of February, let alone the forums... Haven't had the time to play a Ranked round at St. Andrews so far, but after briefly practicing there, the course does not seem to me to be as outrageously easy as is claimed by some. Still have lots of backlog to deal with work-wise, so I'm not particularly missing the forums, and can only skim through it very quickly every day, but anyway, I don't feel like contributing regularly before WGT reply to my question. I first sent it to them in early February, and re-sent it yesterday. No reaction from them so far. I understand Nivlac joined their staff in the meantime, which I guess is better than nothing, but does not remove my worries, inasmuch as most of the serial forum abusers used to meet (and perhaps still do) in the mIRC channel managed by Nivlac. I trust he can transcend his private affiliations and conduct his forum moderation job fairly.

(Still don't understand why WGT is so terrified about user moderation. I'm a hockey fan and on any hockey discussion board I know of, they have teams of 5 to 10 user moderators, overseen by an admin or two. That way, it's ensured any user query is replied to and dealt with promptly. But here WGT seem to be unwilling or unable to reply to my question for 4 weeks now.)

http://www.wgt.com/msgs/default.aspx?MessageID=6#61227

Ah, I must have dreamt that, and you probably never said anything. I have now 2 times sent an email to WGT, asking them to say clearly if they wish for me never to participate in the forums again. As usual, they ignore me, giving me no reply at all. In the new year, I announced a boycott of WGT's forums, but was willing to suspend it if they were capable of running the forums fairly and transparently in 2010, as opposed to 2009. However, the malpractices from 2009 quickly resumed in 2010: protecting serial forum abusers (many of them mIRC pals) and penalizing their victims, and with no transparent communication with forum users. The deletion of your post from today is yet another piece of evidence that nothing has changed compared to 2009.

So, I'm waiting for a reply from WGT, and I don't wish to participate in the forums until they reply to me (unless it's an emergency, like yesterday with the non-availability of the ladders site). I simply wish to receive one of the following 2 messages from the WGT staff:

• "Yes, we will do our best to run the forums transparently and fairly for all. If we penalize anyone, we'll be happy to specify the offence as well as length of penalty."
• "Please just play the game and don't contribute to our forums any longer."

Whichever of the 2 statements they choose, I'll be happy to accept and act accordingly. I'm not willing to be repeatedly gang-raped in the forums by the usual clique of serial abusers, and then be penalized by WGT's staff after I report the abusers' offences.