Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:23:40 10/28/99
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On October 28, 1999 at 02:46:21, Jeff Anderson wrote: >On October 27, 1999 at 22:06:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>Sorry, but I (for one) don't buy such a cavalier toss-off. You could have >>made your point in any of a hundred different and non-insulting ways. The >>way you wrote it was definitely 'trolling' for action. I just refused to bite >>after one explanation of why your 'assumption' was flawed... > >I apologize. I did not mean to get anyone upset, and I did not intentionally >insult anyone. If I post again, I will be much more careful about the words I >use in the message and the subject. I will also make sure what I have to say is >true, if it might be at all controversial. I rather naively assumed that all >those you played fell under the strict controls of your formula. >At least some good has come from my original post, a rather interesting >discussion about Elo ratings has begun. >Jeff I didn't mind the question at all... just the phrasing: "Crafty, too arrogant to ...." the term 'arrogant' is objectionable, because it was obviously applied to me since a computer can't ever be 'arrogant'. If you understood the flaw in ICC's integer rating formula, the reason for the rating floor for challenges becomes obvious...
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