Scarabin Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 I can sign in to all other forums but on Bridge Material Review I get the same messages "You cannot post a new topic" and "This topic is locked" as I do when I forget to sign in. In desperation I clicked on "mark this topic as read" in case it made a difference but without effect. Can someone help before I go completely paranoid, please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 You have to have 25 total posts to be able to post in that forum. I'm not sure why that forum has this policy, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotShot Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Now that you mentions it, I think it was introduced to prevent people from making an account only to advertise here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarabin Posted January 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Thanks, Sounds reasonable but unfortunate in that I think a lot of new members might be inclined to post on this forum. Is there a forum I could use to post a synopsis of what I have in mind and obtain feedback on whether it would be worthwhile and also what constitutes advertising and what is fair comment. For instance if I express the view that GIB has the weakest play engine of the professional programs, is that advertising? And if I summarise the efforts to produce an effective play engine: academic papers, commercial and amateur programs, etc., Is that advertising? What I am really saying is that I can produce the necessary posts but don't want to do this if my review posts will breach the forum rules? Thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotShot Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Perhaps you might like to post to the Gib Robot discussion subforum: http://www.bridgebas...bot-discussion/ This is where all critics about GIB is bundled. Several of the bidding bugs reported there have been changed. So an effort there is not necessarily a waste of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 If you're trying to promote the work you've been doing on a new bridge robot, that would be considered advertising. If you want to post in the GIB forum to report specific problems you've had with the robots, that's fine -- we can investigate and try to fix them. But general criticism is not very constructive -- we're fully aware that it has lots of problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarabin Posted January 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 Thanks again and thanks for your patience. What I would like is to discuss Bridge programs and programming in general.I have added a reply to Fred's "Good play by Gib", but I guess I will really have to wait until I qualify for the Bridge material review forum and then see if anyone is interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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