Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:59:35 02/14/06
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Here's the main thing we need. Technical support is fine. Discussions about games is fine. But when the discussions boil over into marketing, or marketing decisions, or advertising decisions, or financial decisions, those belong somewhere _else_. This is the wrong place to poll people with "would you prefer to buy a subscription and get several versions spread over time or would you prefer to buy one 'final product' and then wait for the next release and buy it all over again?" and the like... That's absolutely blatantly commercial, and belongs elsewhere. Discussions about games, or about program details (I can't think of a commercial programmer that gives any "program details" but that's another topic) and such do belong here. But there has to be a line drawn, and when crossing the line from technical discussion to commercial exhortation, something has to happen. That's my take on this entire fiasco. If you want to discuss why Rybka (or any program) plays move XXX in this position, go ahead. If you want to discuss why Rybka has this evaluation for this position while program YYY has a different evaluation, go ahead there too. If you want to ask how to set the 50 move rule counter in Rybka, again, that's ok. But not how to market the thing, or continuous threads by the beta testers comparing version X to version X+1. Take those offline to a specific Rybka site as I have done with Crafty information, and as others have done with their engines.
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