Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 01:40:32 03/18/99
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On March 18, 1999 at 02:27:07, Hristo wrote: >On March 17, 1999 at 14:49:07, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>Why? The guy is trying to kill his business as well as breaking his rules. I >>can easily understand the attitude, "Eesh, let's just get rid of this guy." >> >>bruce > >Bruce you are correct %100 .. but chess4you is making enemies ... so it is bad >*bussines* decision ... they(chess4you) must not be experienced in "internet >bussines" where one needs *thick skin* ... Goofy stuff happens everywhere. I had an admin on ICC spoof my program so that it would play him at time controls it otherwise wouldn't play. I had another admin make a clearly wrong adjudication at my opponent's request, and when I asked why, I was told that humans are given the benefit of the doubt, since the computer won't care either way. These are just a couple of examples on that server. I'm sure fics and chess.net would have done similar stuff if I had spent as much time there. I could have taken either of these instances, made a giant shrieking fuss about it, threatened to post all of this on the net if nothing was done to correct it, and then started a public campaign if I didn't get my way. I think that instead I simply complained for a while on the server and then got over it. It never occurred to me to take these cases to the general public. I'm not banned on the server, the admin that spoofed me doesn't spoof me anymore, the adjudicate business has not repeated, and if the owners of the server think I'm a complete jerk, at least they are still scheduling me for GM 30 0 matches and occasionally they extend my account expiration. Good enough for me. This current controversy seems stupid. Fine, an admin messed up. Big deal. I say go on with life, rather than making melodramatic comments about having one's hand cut off. It's not like there has been a systematic pattern of abuse demonstrated, it was just one incident involving someone who seems to tend to be involved in incidents. bruce
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