Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 00:12:45 07/06/00
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On July 05, 2000 at 15:20:54, Adrien Regimbald wrote: >Hi, > >>It is really not as popular here as it seems. Most of the posts you see are >>made by a small group of two or three people who enjoy creating new CM >>"personalities" by tweaking a few engine parameters. They post the results from >>matches between different personalities, but most of the results are based on a >>very small number of games, and lack real statistical significance. >> >>I haven't seen much participation in these threads outside of those people. > > >You know, I've never really understood why these messages were allowed on the >CCC. From what I can see, there are 4 or 5 interested people, and NOBODY else >ever comments on it. Personally I couldn't care less about the 20 rating points >they manage to squeeze out of the personalities (if in fact they aren't just >perfecting it for play against CM and making it actually weaker overall) and the >gobs of games they use to justify which of their "creations" is better. I'm >sure that a lot of other people feel the same way. > >Why aren't these discussions moved to another forum, or maybe e-mail? If it's >only a few people posting/reading them, I don't see why the people involved >don't just e-mail each other.. > > >Regards, >Adrien. I think those threads are boring. I also think the threads where people talk about some tournament they did in their basement, amongst various programs that they have, are boring. Of course, I can pick an on-topic topic and bore virtually anyone to death with it, too. And I like moderation threads, which make many of you puke. The reason I care at all is that the boring stuff clutters the place up, but that's a small inconvenience. I can just ignore what I don't want to read, and I think that a wide diversity of discussion topics is a sign that the board is healthy. I think that our group's topic is narrow enough that there won't be too much completely boring stuff happening at one time, and wide enough that we have a lot of people reading and writing. bruce
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