I've just come from subjecting myself to bingo players who are the most rude, insensitive, rabid people that I've ever encountered on Pogo. I need 244 more bingos to be done with the final badge and I'm determined to brave the wrath and abuse of the Bingo rooms. But, honest-to-God, you just can't win in there. If you share the non-sharers yell at you, if you don't share the sharers yell at you. I did learn a lesson today, though. I'll never go back to an uncensored Bingo room. I saw people called every name/adjective in the book in there. What is wrong with Bingo players?
It's Dottie. She brain washes them...do what I do...play in the 1-card fast rooms with chat closed! Hope that helps
lmao
just ignore them
Quote from: pogohatesme on November 08, 2005, 05:12:16 PM
It's Dottie. She brain washes them...do what I do...play in the 1-card fast rooms with chat closed! Hope that helps
yup, just turn your chat box off
I agree ... Ive only played Bingo for the weekly challenges because they are brutal!!! First time I went in there I had no clue about sharing vs not sharing .. got my poor lil feelings hurt when they started cussing me out .. and since I'm not as thick skinned as Dottie - I avoid Bingo at all costs!
What is sharing and non-sharing mean???
I just ignore them, I thought that is what you are supposed to do . . . I mean isn't the point of the game is to call bingo.
To share a bingo you want until everyone has bingo to call it.
i was just playing bingo ran the auto & boom get yelled at saying we sharing how sad
Really what I do, is ask "What does that mean?", then nobody will say ;D
Not all bingo players are rude act that way. You welcome to pm and come to the room I hang in everyday with other people.
fluffy
LOL Fluffy I wonder if we play in the same room. The people I play with share but if not they don't get huffy puffy about it LOL
The following is copied from one of the share leagues website:
Not sure how to share? Below you willl find out how we do it. New to sharing? Just let us or anyone you see posting a "b" in chat know & we will gladly help.
To share just put a b in chat when you have bingo.
After putting b keep your cursor over the gong ready to ring.
As soon as someone rings the gong, you quickly ring in also.
If there are 2 b's in chat already, just ring the gong instead of putting b and the other 2 winners will ring their gongs too.
That's all you have to do. Good Luck & Happy Sharing!
Many of us wait for 3 players to win but you don't have to. You can always ring in with just 2 winners.
And then we have our closet sharers, they wait for someone else to get bingo and then ring their gongs.
This is fine also.
Since you get the same winnings whether you bingo alone or not, we're just happy if more than 1 player wins.
easy way to avoid abuse,do what i do,turn chat off,then just play away O0
sharers used to drive me crazy, i mean if u went to a bingo hall do you wait for others to call bingo?of course you dont,it shouldnt be like it is in bingo
my opinion is the sooner pogo lowers winners to just 1,then nobody would get the kind of abuse u get in some rooms ever again
I've played Bingo a couple of times, but never met the fit-throwers yet. Guess I've just been lucky.
Thanks for posting about what sharing is. I've been wondering.
Roseybud333
I bet we do play in the same room... they don't have a problem with it at all. I do go into other rooms also where my friends goes.
I loath bingo so I had my husband do a challenge for me...he received a pm asking to share..poor man had no idea what the girl meant ,he then asked me if sharing was one of the cyber thingies!!! he high-tailed it out of there so quickly before I could explain
Well i have met some of the bingo jerks and it was in Spirited Soiree room.I was called a terrorist by almost all the people in that room.I did not know that they were sharing bingos at that time (when everyone could call them) and get credit for it.I now go into that room and alot of those same people are still in there so I will call bingo like crazy just to piss them off now lol... >:D
LOL Kaz........I hate playing bingo with shares too So I have learned to turn chat OFF
I always turn off chat when I play fortune bingo, I got over 150 bingos during the challenge taking advantage of all the extra rooms but always with chat off, I paid my money to play on Pogo and for some players to get bent out of shape because I hit the bingo button is plain stupid imo >:( I'm nowhere near the end of the game though, still need around 300 just for 1000 wins :o
WELL WHEN I GO IN BINGO I PLAY BINGO AND IM NOT GONNA WAIT FOR SUMONE ELSE TO GET BINGO THATS JUST CRAZY BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IF I WAIT ON SUMONE ELSE AND I HIT THE GONG TO SLOWLY AND 3 OTHER PEOPLE GET IN FRONT OF ME THEN THAT MEANS IM GONNA BE S*** OUT OF LUCK
I can see both sides of this. Sometimes I don't mind sharing. Sometimes I just want to play the game. But I will say if I go in a room and people are NICE about it, saying something along the lines of "Any chance you will share with us?", I will usually go off to another room and let them have their way. If I go into a room and am "INFORMED" that it is a sharing room, I will hang around and claim every bingo that I can! One thing I hate, and why I usually play alone is another person thinking they are going to "tell" me how to play my game. I usually just sit there and laugh at them in chat going off on "the selfish player"......
I share, but I don't care if other people do or not. I was always embarassed by the rude players from both sides of the issue. I think it is a personal choice myself and you shouldn't be ridiculed for sharing OR not sharing.
i agree, i see sharing as a bonus. if you are lucky enough to find a polite room with sharers then great. if they aren't sharing oh well that's how it goes.
i don't really understand when people get MAD at sharers though. if you care that much about bingo you should realize by now that it's one of the most annoying and boring club pogo games and you should be glad to help fellow players get those wretched badges!
that said, i am usually a secret sharer unless i see other people typing "b"
Quote from: sxybamabit on November 09, 2005, 12:39:24 AM
WELL WHEN I GO IN BINGO I PLAY BINGO AND IM NOT GONNA WAIT FOR SUMONE ELSE TO GET BINGO THATS JUST CRAZY BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IF I WAIT ON SUMONE ELSE AND I HIT THE GONG TO SLOWLY AND 3 OTHER PEOPLE GET IN FRONT OF ME THEN THAT MEANS IM GONNA BE S*** OUT OF LUCK
That happend to me during the challenge week. I didn't know what sharing was and I HAD a bingo, but when I hit the gong it said something like too many people have called bingo. I've learned my lesson.
This is probably the most talked about / controversial (?) element to any game.
Bingo stinks. That's the bottom line. The premise is that it's designed a a compitition but you can play for an hour and make 0 rank progress which is frustrating. The sharing concept is great to help BUT "you can't please all of the people all of the time."
Personally I pop in a room and ask "Sharing?" If nobody answers I play alone but if I get a yes or 2 count me in. I need 110 more and so I've played an hour a day for a year (at night). Honestly I've only seen these arguement about 5-6 times.
My advice that I've said before. As soon as the game starts, fill your card, read a book and when you hear "BINGO" click the gong and go back to your book. I can't imagine playing a five minute game waiting for a ball every 6 seconds
I share...when i see others sharing, otherwise i just wait until I bingo, and keep my pointer over the gong, so someone else can bingo first. There's no sense for me being selfish. It's a very lengthy game for rank progress, and i do what I can to help others too (that is unless there's a lot of jumpers...you know who you are), then I bong the gong all day long and be selfish. To each his own, I always say ::).
Didn't know Madonna had time to play bingo.
Quote from: caroline196 on November 08, 2005, 08:31:05 PM
easy way to avoid abuse,do what i do,turn chat off,then just play away O0
sharers used to drive me crazy, i mean if u went to a bingo hall do you wait for others to call bingo?of course you dont,it shouldnt be like it is in bingo
my opinion is the sooner pogo lowers winners to just 1,then nobody would get the kind of abuse u get in some rooms ever again
There's a difference though, in real bingo halls the more people you share your bingo with - the less money you win. The more people you share with, the less you win.
At Pogo, whether you bingo alone or with 2 other winners - you still get the same amount of tokens, or "money". It doesn't matter how many you share your win with, you still win the same amount.
So really, there's no point to NOT sharing.
lol like I said in a diff. post on this same topic, I just I'm just a selfish bad bingo player because I refuse to share. I've been screwed outta a bingo plenty of times by waiting for 2 others to say "b" and then a couple more that haven't said it and clicked also and there's your 3. lol That's why I just shut my chat off and have to worry about any of them.
You guys are all too funny. I'll bet that 95% of you have the same philosophy that I do. If the people are nice about sharing I don't mind sharing too, when I'm actually playing the game, but I hate the game so much that it's usually my auto playing for me and it doesn't know how to share! ;D >:D >:D O0
i will try to wait also. Which means there a chance i will miss out >:(
I actually don't find very many people sharing. If someone comes in and wants to share, I just tell them I will be glad to. If they don't get a big response, they usually leave the room. If someone gets really nasty about others not sharing, I just tell them that they are probably on mute or don't know how to share. That generally calms them down.
Quote from: PogoSlave on November 10, 2005, 04:51:37 AM
You guys are all too funny. I'll bet that 95% of you have the same philosophy that I do. If the people are nice about sharing I don't mind sharing too, when I'm actually playing the game, but I hate the game so much that it's usually my auto playing for me and it doesn't know how to share! ;D >:D >:D O0
Nope, I'm too busy jumping from room to room finding the filled cards, I never know who is sharing or not.
Quote from: nchillbilly on November 08, 2005, 11:46:48 PM
Well i have met some of the bingo jerks and it was in Spirited Soiree room.I was called a terrorist by almost all the people in that room.I did not know that they were sharing bingos at that time (when everyone could call them) and get credit for it.I now go into that room and alot of those same people are still in there so I will call bingo like crazy just to piss them off now lol... >:D
LMAO!
I do the same thing!
and i actually don't mind sharing. but if the sharers start jumping all over someone that is not sharing or start making rude comments then i revert to b.i.t.c.h mode and call bingos as soon as i get them - they get so p.o.'ed - ah well, better luck next game!
I have officially turned into cyber-"b". I am not waiting any more on room hoppers and bingo snatchers (at the sharers expense). I'll share...but only with sharers. If they don't like it, then they can f off.
I share if everyone is sharing. Depends on my mood. If they are complaining then I don't share. :P
I guess I've been lucky.....I haven't encountered any rude folks in Bingo. I generally pick a Temporary room at random, and have noticed very little chat. :)
Quote from: pogoisevil on November 11, 2005, 02:49:55 PM
I guess I've been lucky.....I haven't encountered any rude folks in Bingo. I generally pick a Temporary room at random, and have noticed very little chat. :)
Me either. Of course having my chat turned off seem to tone down much of the noise :)
Are you back from vacation already or did you take both Billie and the computer with you?
Are you back, Mr Bill? That was too quick. You deserve more vacation! ;)
Bingo Stinks!!!! I was in there playing all by my lonesome no auto no other players. Well in comes 3 other players all at once ( i needed one for bingo) 4-5 numbers are called i get bingo i hit the gong, now mind you noone has talked in chat. Well let me tall ya they did once i hit the gong!!! I think im just going to wait for another bingo challenge to come around before i play anymore
I usually will hold on calling Bingo until someone else calls it as well..no sensein hogging it all for myself lol.There have been a few times where i haven't been as quick to the gong as others after it is calledbut its only a game.If it were for real then i wouldnt even think of waiting.
Heres An Easy Way To Bingo
If you wait until late at night\early morning, you can find a room with only a very few people in it, Be patient and theyll leave eventually, or at least give you a much better chance of Bingo-ing
plus in the wee hours of the morning with very very few ppl in the rooms, they more willing to share