Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:46:20 02/13/06
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On February 13, 2006 at 08:00:22, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On February 13, 2006 at 07:25:34, Uri Blass wrote: > >>It is clear that vas had been treated badly. >> >>Even if his post is against the charter the right action is simply to delete it >>and not to generate a thread about it that is only to insult vasik. >> >>Note that the charter is not clear and there are people who disagree that it is >>against the charter. >> >>If the target is to explain the intention of 4 in the charter then it is >>possible to delete the thread and post something that explain it without >>mentioning rybka and only explaining type of posts that are deleted by the >>moderation. >> >>Uri > > >I see the completely opposite of what you see. You see that Vas has been treated >badly. I say Vas treated CCC badly for months now and this particular message >was the final blow. Again, the chupe with which Vas exploitated this forum for >his commercial interests is incredible. But everybody has enjoyed the new >program, no doubt. So Vas could continue. But it wasnt kosher all the time. But >the computerchess novelty as such beat all the doubts. Time has passed and in >the meantime Vas has a homepage and a forum on his own. So everything what he >has in mind connected with the marketing and selling of Rybka could be >procedured in these sites. No longer in CCC. > >I give you and all other members a simple example what would still be a valuable >topic in CCC. For all not just the users and testers of Rybka. > >As we know Vas makes new versions on a weekly basis almost. This causes many >problems for the testers. New questions wait to be handled. Which one is >stronger? How to test it? In a tournament with 10 Rybka entries/ versions and >only one entity of the other programs? And how to evaluate the results? > >If Vas had discussed these topics in extenso here in CCC that would have been >very valuable. But what he did was completely different. He smiled a bit, >knowing that such tests are very itchy to say the least. But he avoided to >criticise the tests right out. Why? - Easy. Because all this traffic was >basically holding his program in the news. Not bad for a PR for free in CCC, >where normally advertising is forbidden... Dont forget what Pete described. You >cant almost find any other topic right now in CCC. It's Rybka here Rybka >there... I do not agree. Vas is not quilty of posts of other people. It is not his responsibility to tell them what to do. > >One could also interprete it this way, that Vas did never feel that he owed >something to the host of this site. He just like sleepwalked with a certainty in >CCC as if he had all the rights to make his business in fishing always new >members (NB all here come through a registration process). And this is weird. In >the perspective of the existence of his own forum. Now it looks as if he was >interested in new customers and nothing else... That forbids ยง 4 of the charter. He got new customers thanks to results of CEGT and not thanks to his posts. The fact that rybka is in the news is not his responsibility and every time the best program is going to be in the news of CCC because people are going to post result of tournaments here. Uri
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