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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?
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Posted 2012-January-19, 00:56
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Posted 2012-January-19, 02:53
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.
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Posted 2012-January-19, 08:18
Now that you mentions it, I think it was introduced to prevent people from making an account only to advertise here.
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Posted 2012-January-19, 22:19
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
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Posted 2012-January-20, 04:52
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.
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.
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Posted 2012-January-20, 11:50
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.
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.
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Posted 2012-January-20, 22:26
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.
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