aguahombre Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 Even though I did not happen to be one of the many, and thus was not technically asked for an opinion, that hasn't stopped me in the past; so, here goes :D Recommend not putting one of them back in. If only one had been posted, then perhaps an admonishment to the OP that such ads should be submitted for approval in the future would be in order. The multi-posting would have changed my opinion about whether the spammer would be receptive to that if I were a Mod. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 Three identical post about the missing queen were deleted. This was an advertisement, and I am not totally opposed to one copy of this being left. Any of the many people who flagged this for me have a strong opinion one way or the other about allowing one copy in. I was one of the many. I don't feel very very strongly, but I think it's better they all go, because (i) posting 3 times in different threads was very irritating so (IMO) should be punished and (ii) it was only an advertisement. If it had some useful bridge content (e.g. an extract from the book) together with the ad I would fell less inclined to delete them all, but it didn't. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 I was also one of the many, and agree with Frances. Advertisements being posted more than once becomes spam. Moreover, it was posted in general BBO discussion, the wrong forum for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 Moved the thread "Bingo Reward Tourneys" from GIB Robot Discussion to Suggestions for the Software. The former is for discussion of GIB bidding and play, tournament formats are more appropriate in the suggestions forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 Moved a thread looking for an expert BBO partner (did he mean real expert or "BBO expert"? :) ) to Find a Partner/Teacher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 moved Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLOGIC Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Wait, barmar is a mod? Epic! Great choice if you were gonna make someone else a mod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 It seemed a natural action when I became a BBO employee. I don't expect to replace Ben regarding abuse issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLOGIC Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Great, I did not know you worked for BBO now! None of my business but if you care to share what you're doing for them, I'm sure we're all curious. Are you working on GIB or something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Yeah, we never made an announcement about it (now that I think of it, I'm not even sure if we mentioned it in the "Meet the Yellow" I did), although it got out in the GIB forum. I've been doing some programming, both on the site and behind the scenes (the first thing I did was some small changes to the BB$/MB$ purchase pages), and I've been doing some GIB-related work that I can't go into detail about. I'm a software jack-of-all-trades, so I expect over time I'll have my hands all over the place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Moved thread about BBO robots using Audrey Grant system from General Bridge Discussion to Suggestions for the Software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Moved the thread about BBO monitoring for abuse from General Bridge Discussion to General BBO Discussion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 Moved the thread "'Chat' tab missing" to BBO Support Forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 merged two topics related to a new bridge blog into a single post (didn't delete the duplicated post about the new blog that this created). Duplicate post in different forums is prohibited... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 3, 2012 Report Share Posted February 3, 2012 Moved the thread about BBO script errors to the BBO Support forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 Moved the thread about Playing BBO on iPad 2 from General Bridge to General BBO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 I moved the bbo league schedule and score thread from general bridge discussion to general bbo discussion, and pinned it. When the contest is over, I will unpin it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Moved the thread suggesting multiple profiles to the Suggestions for the Software forum, it didn't belong in General Bridge Discussion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 I've created a new "bbo forum events" forum for putting things related to events played online involving forum members. Like forum specific tournaments, yellow tournaments, jec - forum member matches, bbo league info and hands, etc. In the process of creating this new forum, I have moved as many of the threads in other forum that are appropriate to the new forum, and will move more as I see them. I will probably combine the bidding contest forum with this one, as the forum bidding contest would be similar topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 Moved the thread about ethics from General Bridge Discussion to General BBO Discussion, since it seemed to be specifically about BBO tourneys. MInor oops: I forgot to check the box to leave a pointer in the old forum. Moved the thread about uploading hands to a teaching table from Support for Bridgebase Products to BBO Support Forum, since it's about BBO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 Topic on cheating reported by rhm was removed. There was a lot of post in that thread about this thread will be removed, and then when it wasn't, post asking why it wasn't removed. Here is why it was removed, and why it took so long, and here is my view on the subject. 1. We do not allow public accusations of cheating either here in this forum or on line while playing on bbo. This is long standing BBO policy, predating my appointment as either a yellow online or an administrator here in these forums. 2. In the forum posting a hand that "you played" and not mentioning the name of the opponents you played against is essentially a public accusation of cheating, the reason being that anyone can find the hand in question in a matter of seconds to minutes using myhands. An exception would exist if you waited until the hands rolled off the myhands list, or you had someone else who didn't play the hand post it (so there was no relationship between the poster and the hand played in the myhand record). So, for instance, if you posted a hand you kibitzed, that would be ok as long as you didn't provide the name of any of the players (but don't say, something like in a 2pm tourney yesterday, for instance).3. I know for a fact that cheating occurs in online bridge games (regardless of where hosted). So does Fred, uday, all the yellows, and no doubt every member of this forum. 4. BBO has an active ethic department that investigate cheating claims. When necessary, cheaters are dealt with privately. There is a pecking order for cheating obviously. In events that cost money (the various bbo rating point events) the investigating of cheating is proactive. That is, people not even reported to abuse are investigated, and every person reported as being a "cheater" is investigated, usually within a day or two. 5. The private tournaments run by volunteers and that do not award BBO rating points (like the one described by rhm), the tourney host police/investigate their own events. You can report those players to the tourney host and to abuse. Should they play in bbo rating point events, they will certainly jump to the top of the list to be investigated for possible cheating. If they stick to free tournaments and main room games, they will not get a high priority to be investigated. 6. I have been away since last Tuesday, without internet access, getting back late last night (local time), so I just ran across this post this morning. This is why I didn't remove it, and probably has a lot to do with why it stayed as long as it did. I can speak to why no one of the other administrators didn't remove it, I will assume they didn't read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 Moved the thread asking about reputations from Water Cooler to BBO Support Forum. WC is specifically for non-BBO topics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted March 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2012 edit a post on cheating to remove easily to find examples. deleted a duplicate post of the same one (posted while hiding the first copy during editing and replying). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aguahombre Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 Re: a recent thread, which is now well known.....I believe the mods should rethink using their power to lock a thread which they themselves started and did not go as they wanted it to go. Or, let me cancel a thread I have started when the usual suspects ----instead of answering a bidding question within the given conditions----merely give their own conditions. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 +1, and it would be nice to know which rule has been broken. 'OP feels repliers have misunderstood him/her'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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