Posted by greeny9 on 1/14/2012 9:35:00 AM (view original):
He certainly did ask me about it, and said after about 3 or 4 days of pondering it he would let me in, but with a short leash.  He didnt want anything like that to happen in his world.  I guess I convinced him that theres no way it would.

Bringing any and everybody into the world with seemingly no rejections does seem slightly worrisome I do have to admit. 

To quote Groucho Marx `I wouldn't want to join a club that would have me as a member.'  

:)

But in all seriousness.  As was mentioned before if WIS has any intention on sticking to the letter of their law that being the 5 season thing I really cant see this world lasting the full 5 seasons.  There is always turnover in even the best worlds, at least 1 or 2 each season. 

I think that if I were starting a new league I would have done a lot of things differently. 

    First I think you should have had any current owner you recruited sitemail you that they do not plan on dropping a current team to get in the world. Totaly unenforcable but hey you at least made an effort.

  Second I think your first round of recruiting should have been restricted to owners who have at least 8 seasons in one of their current worlds. You should have gotten 10 owners like this before allowing anyone else in. 

  After getting at least 10 owners like that you should have tried to get another 10 that have at least 5 seasons in one of their current worlds. That would give you a pretty good chance of keeping 20 owners through the 5 seasons. Add 6 newbies and leave the other 6 for guys who you screen and have proven to be solid owners.

  Greeny I do not have the animosity towards you that other owners do I do however understand why they dislike you. I have done a lot of things in my life that were a lot worse than anything you did on here after all it is just a game. However I would not have let you in untill I was down to the last 6 guys and even then I would not have let you in without shobob telling me that he would send me GC's for any seasons less than 5 that you stayed. I hope you use this opportunity to help this world as much as you can and perhaps redeem yourself somewhat.

I actually do believe your intentions were not malicious, that in your own twisted way you were trying to make a point.

But seeing that you did what you did, I would not feel 100% comfortable that given another perfect storm of circumstances, that you wouldn't do it (or something similarly as damaging) again.  To try to prove another point.  As a commish, that's just not a chance I would want to take.  And I'm not sure why any other commish, knowing the facts, would want to take that chance either.  Especially in a new world that's going to be under scrutiny.

Posted by crickett13 on 1/14/2012 2:14:00 PM (view original):
Oh and before anyone jumps to any conclusions no I am not an ex con.