Regarding deleting scores
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2000 12:30 pm
As I have already indicated in another post, it is way too much work to notify everyone personally about a recording of theirs being deleted. And somehow I think that anyone who doesn't follow the rules (and to quote a line from a song "Ignorance is no excuse") doesn't deserve the courtesy of being notified.
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Having said that, there are alternative ways to give an indication of scores that are being deleted. One of them is by temporarily uploading a fake top score on a game and have the description field indicate what is happening, as I have already mentioned before. Another one is to have Gameboy edit the "What's new?" page on MARP with lines like "Illegal recordings on the following games have been deleted/zeroed out: ...".
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I do, however, agree that it should be indicated more clearly where the rules for MARP can be found, and QT Quazar is working on a page as we speak. The first page that a person gets to see when going to the MARP site should have a clearly visible link to the page of banned techniques and banned games. And it wouldn't be a bad idea either to have the page where people submit recordings repeat this ("Before uploading, make sure you did not violage any of the rules mentioned on this page: ...").
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From now on, I'll notify Gameboy of every game I purge, and unless the game itself is banned, I won't delete the score, but merely zero it out and add a comment stating why it was zeroed out (autofire, banned technique, etc.).
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Again, I do not want to do things behind people's backs, but at the same time, I think it's the responsibility of the uploader to check first whether the recording is allowed under current MARP rules and frequently check for updated rules and take care of his own recordings in case a new rule comes into effect; if people do not bother to check the rules first, then why should I bother to extend them the courtesy of personally e-mailing them? Once more, remember that we are talking about hundreds of recordings here...
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Cheers,
Ben Jos.
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walbeehm@walbeehm.com
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Having said that, there are alternative ways to give an indication of scores that are being deleted. One of them is by temporarily uploading a fake top score on a game and have the description field indicate what is happening, as I have already mentioned before. Another one is to have Gameboy edit the "What's new?" page on MARP with lines like "Illegal recordings on the following games have been deleted/zeroed out: ...".
<p>
I do, however, agree that it should be indicated more clearly where the rules for MARP can be found, and QT Quazar is working on a page as we speak. The first page that a person gets to see when going to the MARP site should have a clearly visible link to the page of banned techniques and banned games. And it wouldn't be a bad idea either to have the page where people submit recordings repeat this ("Before uploading, make sure you did not violage any of the rules mentioned on this page: ...").
<p>
From now on, I'll notify Gameboy of every game I purge, and unless the game itself is banned, I won't delete the score, but merely zero it out and add a comment stating why it was zeroed out (autofire, banned technique, etc.).
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Again, I do not want to do things behind people's backs, but at the same time, I think it's the responsibility of the uploader to check first whether the recording is allowed under current MARP rules and frequently check for updated rules and take care of his own recordings in case a new rule comes into effect; if people do not bother to check the rules first, then why should I bother to extend them the courtesy of personally e-mailing them? Once more, remember that we are talking about hundreds of recordings here...
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Cheers,
Ben Jos.
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walbeehm@walbeehm.com
