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Moved the thread asking about whether to announce or alert a 2♠ transfer to minors to the Simple Rulings forum. It was in Interesting Bridge Hands, yet didn't even supply a hand.
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Posted 2012-April-21, 12:48
barmar, on 2012-April-21, 09:57, said:
..... It was in Interesting Bridge Hands, yet didn't even supply a hand.
Quite shocking.
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"100% certain that many excellent players would disagree. This is far more about style/judgment than right vs. wrong." Fred
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Posted 2012-May-13, 09:32
A bunch of post by dumpboss were dumped. I don't mind mentioning the name, since he joined bbo today, didn't play any bridge over there, and came here and posted 7 clearly spam post. Thanks to everyone (a lot of you) for reporting these, they were all deleted under an hour from the first one being posted.
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Posted 2012-May-13, 10:04
Good job, Ben. I can only imagine how many emails you received in a very short time period. It certainly was small compared with the number of people annoyed with the posts who didn't feel it necessary to further dump on you because we knew you would be on top of it.
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Posted 2012-May-20, 22:20
Removed a sarcastic reply to a newbie in "Find a Partner/Teacher", and someone else's followup to it.
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Posted 2012-May-21, 01:13
barmar, on 2012-May-20, 22:20, said:
Removed a sarcastic reply to a newbie in "Find a Partner/Teacher", and someone else's followup to it.
While it was mildly sarcastic, I do think the newbie would have been well served by answering the question...
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Posted 2012-May-21, 07:42
mgoetze, on 2012-May-21, 01:13, said:
While it was mildly sarcastic, I do think the newbie would have been well served by answering the question...
Assuming he even understood it.
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Posted 2012-May-22, 13:44
Thread titled "Bad behavior" was removed because it names names. I'll PM the poster and tell him to send to abuse@.
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Posted 2012-May-23, 01:50
[pointless "me too" deleted]
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Posted 2012-May-24, 19:19
Edited a post in the BBO Tournament Directors Forum to remove the name of an ACBL TD that was being complained about.
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Posted 2012-May-27, 22:48
Removed the advertisement for the iPhone scoring app, as we do not allowing advertising.
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Posted 2012-June-21, 09:35
The thread "Forcing vs. semiforcing NT" had drifted to a discussion of GCC and bracketed KOs in ACBL. I moved all those posts into a new thread in General Bridge Discussion.
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Posted 2012-July-12, 19:19
A Website that is not affiliated with bbo entitled bboskill.com has "stopped updating" its data, and has on its first page a plea for people who enjoyed it, to come to these forum to express their views. They "want" BBO to interact more with them (if I read their page correctly). In my opinion trying to get an interaction with BBO through asking for post on that subject here in the forum is not the correct way to negotiate such things, but what do I know?
Anyway the timing of there message is screwed up, all the important BBO people are in philly and will not see these pleas. In addition, the posters are not posting in forums they routinely monitor anyway (if they were here). I have tried to consolidate the messages into a single thread, but no doubt I may have missed one and more will pop up I am sure. Also a few cross post of the same material was deleted so that only one copy (Hopefully) appears in the merged threads.
i agree with several of you that some of the post are either close to spam or are spam, but many are people that for one reason or the other found this site "useful". For those who did, try this. Find the name you want to "investigate" go to http://online.bridge...hands/index.php and enter that name with a date range of a month, and look and see what the player you were wondering about averaged. Not that I think that information is useful, but that is the same data you use to get from bboskill.com albeit on one player at a time.
Anyway the timing of there message is screwed up, all the important BBO people are in philly and will not see these pleas. In addition, the posters are not posting in forums they routinely monitor anyway (if they were here). I have tried to consolidate the messages into a single thread, but no doubt I may have missed one and more will pop up I am sure. Also a few cross post of the same material was deleted so that only one copy (Hopefully) appears in the merged threads.
i agree with several of you that some of the post are either close to spam or are spam, but many are people that for one reason or the other found this site "useful". For those who did, try this. Find the name you want to "investigate" go to http://online.bridge...hands/index.php and enter that name with a date range of a month, and look and see what the player you were wondering about averaged. Not that I think that information is useful, but that is the same data you use to get from bboskill.com albeit on one player at a time.
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Posted 2012-July-12, 19:26
inquiry, on 2012-July-12, 19:19, said:
A Website that is not affiliated with bbo entitled bboskill.com has "stopped updating" its data, and has on its first page a plea for people who enjoyed it, to come to these forum to express their views. They "want" BBO to interact more with them (if I read their page correctly). In my opinion trying to get an interaction with BBO through asking for post on that subject here in the forum is not the correct way to negotiate such things, but what do I know?
Anyway the timing of there message is screwed up, all the important BBO people are in philly and will not see these pleas. In addition, the posters are not posting in forums they routinely monitor anyway (if they were here). I have tried to consolidate the messages into a single thread, but no doubt I may have missed one and more will pop up I am sure. Also a few cross post of the same material was deleted so that only one copy (Hopefully) appears in the merged threads.
i agree with several of you that some of the post are either close to spam or are spam, but many are people that for one reason or the other found this site "useful". For those who did, try this. Find the name you want to "investigate" go to http://online.bridge...hands/index.php and enter that name with a date range of a month, and look and see what the player you were wondering about averaged. Not that I think that information is useful, but that is the same data you use to get from bboskill.com albeit on one player at a time.
Anyway the timing of there message is screwed up, all the important BBO people are in philly and will not see these pleas. In addition, the posters are not posting in forums they routinely monitor anyway (if they were here). I have tried to consolidate the messages into a single thread, but no doubt I may have missed one and more will pop up I am sure. Also a few cross post of the same material was deleted so that only one copy (Hopefully) appears in the merged threads.
i agree with several of you that some of the post are either close to spam or are spam, but many are people that for one reason or the other found this site "useful". For those who did, try this. Find the name you want to "investigate" go to http://online.bridge...hands/index.php and enter that name with a date range of a month, and look and see what the player you were wondering about averaged. Not that I think that information is useful, but that is the same data you use to get from bboskill.com albeit on one player at a time.
I completely agree with you that the site did an immature/poor/etc. method of requesting that BBO take up its plea.
That said, I think the plea is worthy; I'd like to see a rating system for BBO results, no matter where it comes from. I don't get quite the results from the search quoted that I'd like.
Anyway, I've advocated (more than) enough for one day. (I did find the site useful, but will refrain from talking about it any more and let the eminent wisdom of the important BBO people take over.)
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Posted 2012-July-12, 22:45
jamegumb, on 2012-July-12, 19:26, said:
I completely agree with you that the site did an immature/poor/etc. method of requesting that BBO take up its plea.
That said, I think the plea is worthy; I'd like to see a rating system for BBO results, no matter where it comes from. I don't get quite the results from the search quoted that I'd like.
Anyway, I've advocated (more than) enough for one day. (I did find the site useful, but will refrain from talking about it any more and let the eminent wisdom of the important BBO people take over.)
That said, I think the plea is worthy; I'd like to see a rating system for BBO results, no matter where it comes from. I don't get quite the results from the search quoted that I'd like.
Anyway, I've advocated (more than) enough for one day. (I did find the site useful, but will refrain from talking about it any more and let the eminent wisdom of the important BBO people take over.)
Did you even read the post that inquiry made?
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inquiry, on 2012-July-12, 19:19, said:
Find the name you want to "investigate" go to http://online.bridge...hands/index.php and enter that name with a date range of a month, and look and see what the player you were wondering about averaged.
"And no matter what methods you play, it is essential, for anyone aspiring to learn to be a good player, to learn the importance of bidding shape properly. MikeH
"100% certain that many excellent players would disagree. This is far more about style/judgment than right vs. wrong." Fred
"Hysterical Raisins again - this time on the World stage, not just the ACBL" mycroft
"100% certain that many excellent players would disagree. This is far more about style/judgment than right vs. wrong." Fred
"Hysterical Raisins again - this time on the World stage, not just the ACBL" mycroft
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Posted 2012-July-12, 23:31
jillybean, on 2012-July-12, 22:45, said:
Did you even read the post that inquiry made?
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Yes. I use that link frequently for analyzing my own info.
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Posted 2012-August-20, 13:17
A series of post with just a large heart were deleted.
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Posted 2012-August-26, 17:36
Delete a duplicate "the finger and the moon" thread from this forum.
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Posted 2012-August-29, 13:16
Moved two threads out of General Bridge Discussion:
Robot eccentricity: moved to the GIB Robot Discussions forum.
Playing with screens: moved to Suggestions for the Software.
Robot eccentricity: moved to the GIB Robot Discussions forum.
Playing with screens: moved to Suggestions for the Software.
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Posted 2012-September-01, 10:03
Multiple post in the most recent Moscito article were deleted because of violations of TOS. Sadly, I had just lowered one of the people involved in the fracas WARNING level because he/she had been playing nice with post here for a long period of time.
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