[MODERATION]lucasart wrote:I'm very surprised that our moderators have still not taken action against this scam:DustinYoder wrote:I wanted to announce that I have started a kick starter project to build and test a database structure to handle solving chess. I have discussed solving chess here and I think the community might be interested to read the details here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/12 ... tep-1-of-3 I would request comments and advice on other outlets who might be interested in this project.
* He's claiming to be building a 32-men TB, which is nothing but a farce.
* He's asking for money, and in particular you need to give him 250$ in order to get access to his source code, only to find out that it's a scam (if you're naive enough not to realize straight away).
Apparently, someone already did send 250$. Or maybe it's a scam technique. No one sent anything, but he's just putting that on his website to attract idiots to pay. The trick is to make the idiot think he's not the only idiot. Otherwise the idiot becomes suspicious...
Normally, you buy a product. Here there is no product. It is the difference between a scam and a commercial offer.
We received no complaints, and we do NOT monitor every single thread 24/7. So, yes, this sounds like a bogus approach and the attempt to collect money does not belong to this sub-forum. There seems to be some collateral discussion, but that can be continued if somebody open another thread. I will lock this. If anybody thinks it should remain open (because I missed something) please PM.
Miguel
[UPDATE]
We received by PM a request to re-open the thread. Upon reading more carefully, we cannot say that this is a scam, but certainly extremely naive to say the least. In addition, the OP is requesting advice, it just happens that it is requesting donations in the link. So technically, this is not violating the charter directly. So, people in this forum know this very well, and I do not think even a caveat is necessary. We all know.
The point is, some collateral discussion started. We will re-open this, but we will make sure it stays on-topic for this sub-forum. That is, some theoretical discussion of why certain things are possible or not, are certainly belonging here. If the thread stays like that, it should be ok.
Miguel