One more thought on this. I've said it elsewhere and I'll repeat it here...
When you are responding to a post one of the best things you can do is to just say enough to direct the discussion and OP's thinking process in the direction you think it should go...AND NO MORE. If OP asks for more explanation then, by all means, respond, but this game is all about making correct decisions and players only get better when their decision making process does, so help them arrive at correct decisions but don't spoonfeed them the answers.
It took me a while to realize this, but what finally brought it home to me was a response to one of my early HH posts by Fnord, where he gave me one of his Fnordish one-liners, something like, "I like where you got to but not how you got there," then he left me to stew. Bastard.
That was the day my whole approach to this game changed.




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