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I have directed a few hundred tournaments online at another site...
Directing online is much harder than directing f2f - and often the volunteers doing it have less experience than f2f directors.
Here's some of the reasons why it is difficult...
1. You don't have access to non verbal communication - and 90% of communication is non-verbal - which is why communicating on-line is so difficult.
2. You are often dealing with people whose English skills are not good - as an example there are different meanings of 'negative' doubles based on language and translation. In many places 'negative' just means 'not penalty' and includes takeout doubles.
3. You are dealing with people both whose experience of how laws are interpreted and what is standard in terms of bidding varies according to the country they come from.
4. You are often dealing with very assertive and skilled players.
5. The internet itself produces bad behaviour that people would never indulge in f2f.
6. Self-alerts produce a whole set of challenges to the laws that are inadequately dealt with by the laws as they currently stand.
7. Pauses and possible UI are affected by the technology that is being used.
8. Everyone knows that illegal communication is possible online - often producing a whole lot of difficulties and zero tolerance infractions that the director has to deal with that are not experienced in face to face bridge.
9. There are often insufficient means that directors has to punish appalling behaviour.
10. You are often dealing with technology and software that takes a lot of time to do adjustments and a deal of experience before you are familiar and proficient with using it - this means you can't pay attention to to the niceties of communication - so often you get 'if only you'd said this...' from people whose own communication is appalling, who have been rude and who are simply rationalising their own appalling behaviour.
11. Often you have 5 or 6 calls at once - yet people demand immediate attention... in f2f it is easy to see the director is busy.
There's only a couple of standards I expect when I direct online...
1. No accusations of favoritsim
2. No accusation of the director cheating.
These for me are zero tolerance infractions. but what do we see in this thread...
Excuses, excuses, excuses...like this...
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95% of 'obviously' wrong rulings are correct in my experience - certainly a lot of seemingly obvious ones are in fact correct...but even if they are wrong there is NEVER an excuse for labelling the td a cheat or accusing them of favoritism.
Around the world there is a shortage of volunteers. Behave like this towards tds and there'll be none. That doesn't mean you can't complain or appeal. It means you can't behave like kindergarten children and spolit brats.
I have read a number of threads on this message board about directors decisions. Having been involved in hundreds of decisions and seen some of them complained about I have never once seen the complainant present the full facts correctly - and often seen them present them totally incorrectly. Yet the general standard on this board is to accept what is said as the truth. The court of public opinion where the complainant gets to present their grievances in a totally biased way is not a proper court.
If I was a director on BBO and any participant used the word cheat about me then they would never play in any tournament I directed and would be expelled immediately...