I got banned
I got banned from http://www.gobase.org. They're really protective of the content they have there, despite the fact that most of it is public domain - game records and biographies, opening books, 500 year old chinese problem sets, etc. There are also a bunch of articles by contributors.
Everything's hidden behind a free login - to get one you need to prove that you are a member of the american go association or some other association, or else your kgs or igs id. The process isn't automated and it takes a couple days.
Anyway so i was printing out some articles and opened about 20 of them at once, and now I'm banned.
What is it about strategy games that makes the administrators into such total assholes? The admin of IGS are a bunch of jerks - the opening message used to be "there is no expectation of privacy", which meant they'd grep your private messages for mentions of any other go server or any criticism of IGS and ban you without explanation if they found anything. Recently there was some kind of power grab in the AGA with late night meetings, etc. The chess world is the same - there are competing professional organizations who can't agree on how to have a world championship, corruption, tons of infighting.
I got banned from http://www.gobase.org. They're really protective of the content they have there, despite the fact that most of it is public domain - game records and biographies, opening books, 500 year old chinese problem sets, etc. There are also a bunch of articles by contributors.
Everything's hidden behind a free login - to get one you need to prove that you are a member of the american go association or some other association, or else your kgs or igs id. The process isn't automated and it takes a couple days.
Anyway so i was printing out some articles and opened about 20 of them at once, and now I'm banned.
What is it about strategy games that makes the administrators into such total assholes? The admin of IGS are a bunch of jerks - the opening message used to be "there is no expectation of privacy", which meant they'd grep your private messages for mentions of any other go server or any criticism of IGS and ban you without explanation if they found anything. Recently there was some kind of power grab in the AGA with late night meetings, etc. The chess world is the same - there are competing professional organizations who can't agree on how to have a world championship, corruption, tons of infighting.
posted by ernie at
6/12/2005 11:18:00 PM
