ErikH2000 wrote:
Please everyone stop with the personal attacks and name calling. If you want to argue, stick to the issues.
Point taken. I apologize for calling michthro a jackass; I was somewhat enraged to see Syntax threatening to leave because one person was acting irresponsibly, and--though not as angry as Syntax was--I overreacted a little as well.
But while my tone wasn't justified, I stand by the basic content of what I said. michthro seems to be so concerned with keeping his #1 scores that (a) he'd like to keep a serious competitor for them, namely Syntax, from having an advantage in taking them; (b) he has, by his own admission, used tactics that he finds morally reprehensible (his words: "
plagiarism"
; "
rudimentary ethics"
; "
wrong"
) in order to keep them.
[Aside to Blondbeard: soccer analogy understood; and yet, there's michthro using his hands even while saying "
No one should ever use their hands in soccer."
It seems to me that, if one feels so passionately about soccer, one should (a) accept that the rules here are different than the rules elsewhere, and recognize that in this tournament there's nothing wrong with using one's hands, even if it's not quite "
soccer"
; (b) continue to not use one's hands, even though it means losing the match, because at least you know you played honestly; or (c) find another tournament to play in. If it's no fun to snipe,
don't do it. And it's not like michthro's losing the entire match; it's a few #1s here and there.
Put another way: suppose someone said, "
Using 'undo' while optimizing a room is cheating"
. Should we all stop using 'undo'? Should we stop allowing demos in which someone has used 'undo'? Or should we tell them: "
I'm sorry you feel that way, but that's not the game we're playing here; the consensus 'round these parts is that 'undo'--not unlimited, of course, but 'undo'--is a legitimate technique"
?]
/dy
.
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