...you did, Guaroz?
...lol. My bad, then. I feel like an idiot. I apologize for that. I understand where you're coming from now. That's embarrassing.
Yeah, taylor4, ask for permission from the game creator before you advertise a game that isn't yours next time, please.
That said, Guaroz, the statement you made at the end kind of undoes everything you said before. If it's a public game, and no one owns it, then he can make it semi-anon...
"If you reveal anything about identities of an Anon game (either during the pre-game or during the game itself) you are going to increase the “cheating potential”. Either via PM or via the way I described. The whole v-dip community does not behave like you do.
Of course, there are other ways to cheat that nor we nor the mods can control. This doesn’t mean we don’t have to make our part in preventing some kind of cheating."
I know they don't all behave like me, but that doesn't refute the whole argument I made in the first place, unless you mean to say that people here *actually do* think "OH LOOK, HE'S IN THAT GAME! TIME TO CHEAT NOW" which is, honestly, so stupid and patently ludicrous that I cannot understand how someone can even have such a logic process as that.
The point is that it *isn't* preventing cheating.
"About the choice system.
Try to look it in my point of view: someone advertised on the forum
gameID=0000, so he has potentially lowered the chances of my unadvertised
gameID=0001 to get started. So what shall we do? Shall we swarm the forum of game advertisements in a continuous race to have the most visible game?? Is this the correct way? I don’t think so."
...no... that's quite the slippery slope you've constructed for us. You advertise a game if you feel like it. If you feel your chances of getting your game started are so drastically diminished from one advertisement as to warrant your own counter-advertisement, go ahead and advertise. I don't think you or anyone else would consider that as a serious option.
"But one sentence is written: “Use common sense and respect other players”.
If you create an anon game and then you tell the world you’re in... you’re not using common sense in my opinion. Nobody forces you to play anon games, but if you do, I expect you to keep it anon."
On the contrary. I think advertising a game to make sure it starts, on the assumption that people want to play an anonymous game and thus will not abuse the revelation that x person is in the game as undisclosed-country-y, is quite sensible. Not to mention that "common sense" is a load of crap anyway.
"Moreover. PE, if you offend the others you’re going against the above-mentioned written rule. Hold your fire, this is not Webdip."
Well, while I understand his frustration in this specific game, I see Guaroz jumping everyone on every thread that dares mention an anonymous game. He's spelled out ways of finding people's identities that *I* didn't know beforehand. If not for him I wouldn't be able to "cheat" in an anonymous game because I wouldn't know how; now I, and anyone else who peruses the forum a little bit, knows how. I feel like his posts have exacerbated the problem by unintentionally making knowledge of how to cheat widespread. Not to mention that it's incredibly irritating being chided about something completely irrelevant for no good reason, as I have been on more than one occasion.
Like I said, I get his frustration in this case, and I apologize for my comments related to it. I was ignorant of the fact that he started the game and my entire understanding of the situation was all wrong as a consequence. But I still think as a general statement that he goes too far and probably makes the issue worse, not better.