@ Polle:
concerning TIE rule: you can break it if you want to. however, if you are a known TIE-deal breaker, people won't trust you. just your call.
As for offering a TIE deal: you seldom offer a TIE deal if you think both teams are equal. usually, when offering a TIE deal, you do it because you want to save enthusiasm or get a guarantee to get an easy win to save the minutes/GS. When i'm being offered, i know well that the opposing team needs to make a decision if i reject it. i just calculate if it's in my best interests to accept it or not. Just know that when you are offering a TIE deal, that you are basically telling the other manager that you want to win while playing with a weaker team.
@ Joe:
Well, since you asked to be called something, i'll call you a overcompetitve, impulsive,overzealous genius :P
@ Nico:
i'm probably in the wrong there because i started about joking around concerning the ban. However, what i was trying to point out is that the comment wasn't necessairy. I know you said it in a joking way, but i'd still rather not see something like that ;)
As to adress the content of the mail:
If other managers let themselves be influenced by what is written on the forum, then we've got a bunch of extremely naive people on the forum/BBBL. If Joe managed to influence results by using the forum, then he's used the forum to his advantage. there is no rule stating he can't do it. From my point of view, i always try to understand the managers and their decisions so that i can forsee the choices they make in the futur. I assume that most managers do what is best for there team, and then things such as the CT of bradok made doesn't make much sense. Heck, i've CTed Joe aswell once. Joe wasn't happy with it, because it was a illogical course of action.
Being illogical and unpredictable is part of the game. How you react to that, is also part of the game. Futhermore, Bradok has no obligation to explain/defend his choice of tactics. He could have simply answered that had been willing to CT the entire season, and that now it was at it's end and that he couldn't win anything anymore, that he finally used his CT. He also could have ignore Joe completely, letting others think of him what they wanted to. Bradok chose to defend his choise and thus Joe could take that info into account next time he faces bradok ( or someone else for that matter. i'm just using Bradok as an example here). I've already chosen to ignore someone who claims i'm a destroyer of active fora and communities. let the others make up their minds.
I think we all agree that the Joe we got now is less aggressive/impulise that the one we had 5 seasons ago. 5 seasons ago, Joe would have answered your post in a very provocative way. Yet he stayed pretty calm in this one. Everyone has an outburst from time to time ( even GM's do! we just avoid doing it in public) still i don't see how Joe (or anyone for that matter) could use the forum as a tool to win a BB game. still, it's your oppinion, you got the write to voice it. i just don't agree with your entire post. i reckonise that Joe has several aggressive posts towards decisions made by other managers, and as far as i know, he has appologized for all of those. You might find it annoying that it keeps happening again, yet i see improvements from Joes side concerning his wordchoice and tone in his posts.
Now, we can either go on about the antics of Joe and/or the antics of other BBBL managers or we can discuss BB as in tonightes results. Or you could all cast a vote for who you think will get the MVP award ( my vote would go to Luis Túpac Yupanqui of Boes). Good forum pots keep managers interested, which leads to active communities something which we desperately need to work on, cause we've gone from 500 active users to 370 over the past 2 seasons :S