Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 02:25:43 08/27/04
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On August 27, 2004 at 03:54:45, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >On August 26, 2004 at 23:19:49, Thomas Mayer wrote: > >>something I may add: maybe you make a page somewhere about WHO has donated, but >>please do not add WHAT he has paid... 5 bucks from someone might be definitely >>not the same thing then 5 bucks from another one... > >I fully support this. A list of supporters of this forum could encourage other >to support, but adding the amount is too difficult because some comes from a low >income country, are retired etc. A dollar isn't the same for everybody. > >Odd Gunnar All true, but perhaps the information could also show if there's a correlation between quality of messages and donation quantity. BTW I still think that with 25$ bank costs for each invoice it would be better if the real top guys who are still in juice (say like Fernando) should solve the problem and not 20 people with each 5 $$. Thats kind of ridiculous. I dont understand Steve at all. I would also have wanted to read something about the store business. In the end the few users of CCC have to support people who are simply working in a diminishing area. Who's buying books or chess pieces anymore? I must also mention (seems to me that people dont know this) that the tech of this site is awfully unspectacular compares even to usenet, where you can really "work" with the threads, here the few features look a bit outdated. Is that only my view? However the final point now is crucial. Without mentioning the details let me describe what is now possibly going on. In computerchess (like all fields which have a principal overlap through the internet) we have two paradigms at least. The commercial offer and the so-called "free" variation. Of course the latter is the gravedigger of the first. Now if I want to criticise bad excuses for fraud, let's name it for what it is, I have to argue against Bob with his social school bent, because even such "evil" occupation with Crafty is basically occupation with Crafty and computerchess. That is incredible for the business branch which lives only if there is a minimum of a working copyright. But if I criticise someone who's joking with such a mess and basically supported the fraud with his neglegent control (because he was the boss of the webpage) I am told here by some moderator that I can tell all that to the guy in HIS forum but not here. But the guy himself can write here in CCC what he wants, if it's really odd he simply changes into German. No, for such a practice I don't want to pay, only to let me be moderated by biased mods, like here from the "free" part of CC. Something is hiding unter the blankets somehow. Why Steve didn't address such topics is beyond my intellectual standard.
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