Author: Pedro Gomes
Date: 03:48:36 12/26/04
Go up one level in this thread
On December 26, 2004 at 05:01:05, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 25, 2004 at 21:06:31, Peter Skinner wrote: Uri, I think you should understand some basic concepts and respect them in spite of your personal interests. 1. we are global chess community 2. Arena team is creating some kind of sect, having in view their future particular commercial interests So far it´s all right. The problems appear when this sect, with its own fundamentalist concepts (their future commercial interests) starts its own "religious" activity in our global community by offending people who has different ideas about religion (computer chess topics), or because they don´t admit any kind of "suspecious" critic, or even because user help is interpreted as conspiracy. I know a fellow who was banned from Arena forum for a week only because he pointed out a wrong ECO code (a famous Conkie work, perhaps a candidate for Nobel in future). Another one was treated like a criminal because of pointing out a bug Arena: he sent to the Arena forum a PGN file with a bug, but without exact names of two engines, which were mentioned as XX and YY. He was forced to answer an inquisition questionary which was submitted after that to Arena admin team to decide whether the guy was illegal owner of their commercial engines or not. These two examples shows how they were treating people who wanted to help them, and speak a lot about the current state of "things" and "spirits" in Arena team. That´s why I suggested to Martin Blum (here) to kick off some of Arena admins, and make the "Arena´s air" much more refreshing. PG
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.