You miss the point entirely. It is not up to you to determine what others are allowed to think interesting to them. It is not up to a majority to decide what others think is interesting. If a small minority, or even a single person judges his purposes are best served by using a particular forum section, he should be given the opportunity to do so. TalkChess was created to serve the entire computer Chess community. Not just what Mr. Lucas Braesch happens to like (if there actually would be such a thing).lucasart wrote:Actually, it's not correct. The front page of talkchess is not the general forum. On the front page, you have a choice between 3 forums. If you want to know about tournaments, you look at tournament forum. It cost you one click, regardless of the forum. How hard is that ?
Some people are arguing that ICGA, or ACCA, or whatever else is may be, are special snowflakes, that deserve more consideration than other tournaments.
The way newspapers decide what goes on the front page and what goes in the sport section, is by trying to estimate interest. Indeed, newspapers want to sell more copies, so they put on the front page what people care about, so they want to buy the news paper.
The interest in ICGA or ACCA or *insert yet another obscure OTB tournament with a handful of participants* is slowly converging to zero.
How many participants are there in ICGA or ACCA tournaments ? And how many have applied to participate but did not pass the qualification stage because there was so much demand they couldn't accept everyone ? Right...
On the other hands, events that draw a lot more interest like TCEC respect the rule and get announced in the tournament section. And it doesn't hinder their popularity, btw.
IMO, this whole debate is yet another hopeless and pathetic attempt at trying to draw attention to old and fossilized organizations like ICGA, because almost no one cares about their tournaments anymore...
Always the same people, making the same empty arguments...
It is outrageous that moderators abuse their power to interfere with the intentions of those who post.