1)HBD is open to anyone who can and is willing to pay
2)Everybody is different, and expectations vary wildly. As in life most people fall into the middle although there will always be the extremes. There are many inept owners and GMs in professional sports why wouldn't there be an even higher percentage with HBD? There's no inherent accountability here. I play my way but I don't owe anyone here anything.
3)There's no screening process set up, anyone with a credit card or a paypal account is welcome. I get idiots in my cafe all the time. i don't kick them out if i don't like the way they eat. It's business, customers are good. I'd love to hang a sign saying "No Brains, No Service" but alas...
4)I don't feel any less of a man because someone is paying to suck. My city won't throw a parade for me if i win a WS in either a public world or if I was in one of those self proclaimed "elite" (what a joke) leagues. It's online fantasy baseball, chill out people, nobody cares. And unless you foolishly use your actual name, no one knows who you are or where you live, as evidenced by all the bravado and machismo and aggresion in these and every other internet thread in existence.
5)I haven't come across very many of these "tankers" that get people so riled up. I know they exist but not to the degree that the Chicken Littles cluck about.
6)I suspect many people here who want lots of regulations, tend from the conservative side of the political spectrum and therefore fail to see the irony. Hell you got one guy here saying he doesn't care if real life MLBers take steroids and hit 70+ HRs, but golly-gee imaginary baseball players shouldn't, because that's retarded.
7) I often read people tsk-tsking some world or owner, that they aren't even in with. Often these same people love to proclaim how their world is so much better. Then you read things from the same people (person) saying if it's not in your world why care. Again, irony missed.
8) If you like your team stick with it even if some jack-*** is piling up losses. If you know what you are doing then it doesn't matter in the end. If some guy has gone the cheese-ball route to building a team, and it really bothers you get out. I've never seen a team that has won more than two WS in a row, it's actually very hard to build a hands down guaranteed perennial WS champ.
9) Most of these stacked teams are built on trades. You can acquire many more prospects that way in a single season than by the draft and IFAs. Many of those trades are lop-sided and I would suspect many involve aliases, which I would suggest is HBDs biggest issue. Unfortunately admin is reticent in this regard.