Yes, and as long as you keep violating the charter we can, and it depends if we choose to do so or not. We were trying hard not to ban you, since you are capable of doing nice contributions, but somehow, you decided to have repeated tantrums and insist in doing something you were told not to do. You were explained why, but you did not listen, and now you deny it. Again: We did not want YET ANOTHER OPEN THREAD about all this, not that the "advice" is technically out of place.Daniel Shawul wrote:HG, I already dropped it, but they can't continually delete a perfectly acceptable post of mine and then ban me.hgm wrote:Daniel, please drop it. I am sure there are infinitely more fruitful ways you could spend your time than arguing with moderators. Although your arguments make sense, the poll about this shows that they represent the point-of-view of only a very small minority.
For instance, what do you think of this 'Chess 2' variant, discussed in the main forum section, where after a capture both sides can bid (blindly) for the survival of the capturer? Would it be possible to adapt minimax to handle this game? Would there be an analogy to alpha-beta pruning?
An illustration that we do not want to ban you, is that you were banned only 8 hrs the first time until the mod team could talk about this and the poll, and organize a DECENT ONE, not a joke, just to make sure you did not keep disrupting. It was not a punishment, just a tool to allow us to proceed. The next time, you were banned ONLY 24 hrs, when generally the second time should be for a longer period. But, this is the first time we would ban a programmer, so we really want to avoid it. However, you want to play the victim and challenge us to ban you, as in the message you told me you were giving us the excuse.
Like in other activities, including sports, someone has to call fouls. We can certainly be wrong, but players should agree to play on rather than dwelling on one call for ever disrupting and delaying the game for hours. You do not like that call? just move on. We do not have huge amount of time for this, because we have shit to do during the day.
Now, again, you posted you stackoverflow thread, open yet another one contributing to the noise you are complaining about. What should we do? look the other way and give you special treatment because you are a programmer? or ban you again like you are craving for it? We will see, we do not have the whole day with the other mods.
Bottom line is we have a member:
- he complains about all those c threads spamming the forum
- he decides to add to the spamming by a post that says things all developers know
- we ask him to post this IN the concerned threads, he refuses.
- he repeats, with a direct challenge, plays the fool and the victim.
One of the questions is
What are trying to accomplish by insisting on all this?
And the other is
How much time we should dedicate to only one member?
Mod Team.
PS: Clearly, you and lucas have a problem with us (why bringing the elections? with lies about facts and our intentions?). Is that the reason you are trying to create a mess?