Texas Hold'Em Shotgun Questions

Question

These questions are individually better than the previous set (which seem to have been deleted), but asking a long series of formulaic questions about particular strategic questions in a single game feels like spamming, or at least flooding (posting rapid-fire content that fills up a discussion board or chat room at the expense of everyone else's content). It's overwhelming the front page, and it's not likely that any of these will get good answers in a timely manner.

What's the appropriate action here? Flag these questions? Vote to close? Just vote them down? Individually, they would probably be OK, but as a group, flooding the front page, they seem quite out of place.

• https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/408/poker-texas-holdem-sit-and-go-how-to-play-a-tournament
• https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/409/poker-texas-holdem-sit-and-go-how-to-play-before-the-flop
• https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/410/poker-texas-holdem-sit-and-go-how-to-play-after-the-flop
• https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/411/poker-texas-holdem-sit-and-go-raise-sizes-in-different-blind-levels
• https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/412/poker-texas-holdem-sit-and-go-bet-sizing-how-much-do-you-bet-and-why
• https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/413/poker-texas-holdem-sit-and-go-odds-and-outs-how-should-you-play-draws
• https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/414/poker-texas-holdem-sit-and-go-advanced-strategies-for-postflop-play
• https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/415/poker-texas-holdem-sit-and-go-four-standard-charts-for-the-push-or-fold-stage
• https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/417/poker-texas-holdem-sit-and-go-how-do-you-play-speculative-hands
• https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/418/poker-texas-holdem-sit-and-go-the-perfect-introduction-to-multi-tabling
• https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/419/poker-texas-holdem-sit-and-go-nl-tournament-your-opponents-hand-ranges

I tried flagging these for moderator attention, and I actually ran out of flagging opportunities; apparently, you can only flag 10 posts in one day.

Answer 1

They're not real, honest, questions, since it's basically copy-and-paste work, so I'm voting to close them as such.

Answer 2

I personally think this feels like spamming and that they are candidates for being closed. They're very short and all have the same style of how they address people. I think my frustration, and most peoples frustration with these, is they were all posted at exactly the same time in a flood. Without knowing poker, I'm not sure which ones are closely related to which other ones.

Answer 3

Would it be possible to merge them all into an uber-strategy thread?

Answer 4

This is exactly the garbage I was afraid of when I posted my question about whether poker was on-topic or not. I really wish this hadn't happened.

Answer 5

It did feel like spam to me when they first appeared and flooded the homepage.

But then, this site is only starting and getting lots of questions in seems like a good idea, even at the price of some occasional "discomfort". Maybe poker players feel that this site is being flooded with Dominion questions. :-)

So I'd vote to keep them... For now! Let the up/down voting on each question do its natural work and we can decide near the end of the beta if this type of rapid-firing will be allowed after the beta.