AvatarLee: One solution to it all.... [...] MAKE MULTIPLAYER WORTH NOTHING. PERIOD.
Not a good solution, I'm afraid. There are quite a few players here who play almost nothing but multi-player rounds, some of them amazing (both players and rounds). I played a round yesterday with a Master who shot a -3 on the front 9 of Bethpage Black; it was fascinating both to watch him play & read his comments on strategy, course management, etc. It simply wouldn't be fair for such rounds not to count towards a player's average score. (This happened to be a Master with a 70+ average score, clearly one of those who honestly record all of their rounds, good or bad; I was happy to see that the round he played with us mediocre players propelled him back into the 60s average score range.)
GSpinks1962: anyone that types the word quitter in a post gets banned from the forums for a week.
The classic shoot the messenger strategy. (Instead of eliminating a problem, eliminate those who complain about it. Coming from a formerly totalitarian country, I know exactly just what you're proposing there.)
claremoreblue: 15 pages of quitter forums, and they just keep rolling in!
You meant anti-quitter forums, right? To reply, I can only quote myself from an earlier post:
Faterson: Users shouldn't be blamed for the absence of moderators in these forums. Moderators would have merged [all these
anti-quitter] threads into 1 and put it in the proper forum section. I volunteer to merge all redundant threads (instead of playing a few rounds of golf!), should I ever be named a (temporary) moderator of this forum (I earn my living with such tasks, too). Every second week or so, yet another thread gets started with the same question,
Can we play other courses besides BB in multi-player?; every five days or so, yet another thread gets started devoted to complaints about club distances, etc. If there are no moderators to merge/lock such threads / pin recurrent topics to serve as alternative FAQ, these irritations won't go away, but users shouldn't be primarily blamed for the resultant redundancies.
iconian: Let me answer this question once and for all.
If that was your intention, you failed miserably.
iconian: stop posting 20 times in 1 thread for something that is NOT a problem.
... for you. It's clearly a problem for lots of WGT players, otherwise there wouldn't be so many posts by so many different players on this same issue. Forgive me, iconian, but it strikes me a tad arrogant to proclaim that something is "not a problem" just because it's not a problem for you, an elite player.
Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "posting 20 times in 1 thread" and whom you're addressing with that comment. Yeah, RastusP went overboard on page 1 of this thread (although in a righteous cause), replying to his own comments, and I told him so myself. As to me, I only post replies to a thread in reaction to comments and suggestions made by other posters, and I trust that's fully legitimate. It would be the death of most discussion forums if each poster were only allowed to post a single time in any thread.
iconian: your biggest problem is simple: you haven't met friends here with who to play who respect you, thus not quit on you. who are you to dictate to someone who they should play? [...] grow up, man up, and get some friends...
Not sure to whom these ad hominem, emotional comments are addressed. It's definitely a recommended practice to read the posts in a thread to which one is about to contribute, instead of posting a predictable, emotional, knee-jerk reaction that contributes nothing to the rational, reasoned discussion of solutions proposed in that thread. As to why quitters disturb me personally, I've already explained that in earlier posts twice, and that explanation, as you can see for yourself, has nothing to do with your hypotheses promulgated above.