Hmmm.(posted 9373 days ago)He left.
He was upset by allegations that he was cheating, when there are no clear rules on the site.
He only writes Spanish and uses an automatic translator to talk to me, so it's not easy to understand exactly what he says, but here's a quote:
"Or you put strict rules, or you give permission to the anarchy."
I think he wants a very clear statement about what is allowed, and what isn't. He's annoyed that some recordings are allowed to stand when they're suspect, but his get criticised.
He has other points, but I don't have his permission to post his messages here, so I won't. I'm not sure if he understood my request to do so. It's all very tricky, with the language barrier.
Basically, I have little time to police MARP and ensure that all the recordings are following the loosly-defined rules, especially when there are so many things that are undetectable.
If I ban a recording because the firing is too fast, on the basis that the player must be using an automatic firing device, the player could just slow down the firing device. If I notice that the firing is too perfectly regular, they could find a way to randomise the auto-fire device. They can get the MAME source and code up their own software-auto-fire routine. Whatever.
It's the same with frame rate. There's no way of telling who is cheating and who isn't.
So what do we do? I'm not good at making decisions at the best of time. I try to be democratic about things, and go with the majority (democracy? or mob rule?)
In summary, Juan's points are:
1) he wants a ruling about using slow machines to make the speed less than 100%
2) he wants a ruling about autofire
3) he wants a ruling about teams of people appearing as a single individual. hey - maybe 'BBH' is actually 3 people (Belinda, Brian and Harold, say?) and *that's* why he's in 1st place...
4) should people be allowed to exploit the galaga bug that stops the aliens from shooting?
5) should people be allowed to exploit the ghosts and goblins bug (to do with 'time'?)?
I think points 1, 2 and 3 are essentially unsolvable. We can ban what we like, but we can't enforce these bans. I hear it's illegal to play MAME if you don't own the ROMs in some places...
Points 4) and 5) can easily be cleared up - I'd have thought that 4) is a 'ban it' offence. I don't know 5), but I'm sue Angry does...
Anyway - that's the story.
It's a shame to lose Juan - I'm hoping he'll come back soon. He wants to start with a score of 0 again, and this time only submit recordings which people won't think are suspicious. I can just imagine him struggling to hold back his twitchy firing finger to stop it moving too fast... Trying not to play too well, in case we accusing him again...
Chris.