Cheating in PBEMs

[Choke]

So being bad at math or ignorant of this odeo thing means you are a cheater to reload, but if you know about the odeo thing/figure it out mathematically it's not cheating? Sounds like bull**** to me.

[klesh]

Well thats just it. I *could* claim I did the math and things worked out great, all the while I was testing the years to see which is the one. This is what I mean. Who's to know?

Why bother making rules for things that are unenforcable?

I guess this brings us to the larger question at hand. Should PBEM games be thoroughly policed, or should trust of the other players be what we hinge the game on? Seems like a mix might be the best thing. Police what we can, and trust when thats all we have to go on.

-FMK.

[Darius871]

I never said there should be a rule against it, I just called it cheating. Merely defining what cheating is in and of itself decreases how often people do it, ban or no ban.

[klesh]

Right, but here is where inconsistancies arise. Thats why I am for uniformity. Will doing something in a game thats cool with the players get me a real entry into the blacklist because it follows your interpretation of cheating? Or should there be a set group of actions that we can ALL agree on so we know exactly when someone has done something we all see is wrong.

I say cast some votes.

-FMK.

[Choke]

FMK is right, what constitutes cheating must be defined, too much gray area=people in the same game playing by different rules.

[Case]

The problem with clearly defining what cheating is is that it can present a 'how to' guide for newbies...

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Field Marshal Klesh
Right, but here is where inconsistancies arise. Thats why I am for uniformity. Will doing something in a game thats cool with the players get me a real entry into the blacklist because it follows your interpretation of cheating? Or should there be a set group of actions that we can ALL agree on so we know exactly when someone has done something we all see is wrong.

I say cast some votes.

-FMK.

By all means, give us a ballot already.

Personally I'm for the Koby standard, but if we have a set standard that has been voted in, I'll stick to it.

[klesh]

absolutely, this is the reason that the knowledge of password cracking has been hopefully limited to a select few. What other options have we?

-FMK.

[klesh]

Originally posted by Darius871


By all means, give us a ballot already.

Easy there, no one has said I am the official ballotmaker, so I will not go ahead and assume I am the one to make it.


Edit: wow, you edit fast! I just dont want to make a ballot and find out that someone doesn t approve of it, hence de-legitimizing it.