Is it the end to a great forum??

[Tony Thomas]

My experience with the Winboard forum isn't really nice. I was called a troll and warned to stop spamming just for stating my opinion, so I left.

Agreed, I have seen such cases, some people have even been banned for it.
They have even put keyword ban in registration forms in sign up pages, that is for example the software would automatically ban someone who tries to register under the name, for say, "Rohan", just because they had banned someone else with that name before. Weird.

They look desperately for traffic by posting into other forums by putting in some opinion about CCC and supporting their club and inviting others to go over there, but only engine release news have been posted so far in most of the threads in gap of what seems like months between each topic.

Who are you refering by saying 'they'?? We might have a lot more posts here, but the quality is not compareable.

Obviously, I was referring to the admin, not the members. I can't talk about quality when there are hardly any posts other than engine release news. Honest opinion. So Sorry but we agree to disagree here, and we do agree on so many topics, but not this one

I simply dont think that you are stating the truth. I visited winboard forum quite often, but I never noticed anyone trying to force others to join.

[swami]

My experience with the Winboard forum isn't really nice. I was called a troll and warned to stop spamming just for stating my opinion, so I left.

Agreed, I have seen such cases, some people have even been banned for it.
They have even put keyword ban in registration forms in sign up pages, that is for example the software would automatically ban someone who tries to register under the name, for say, "Rohan", just because they had banned someone else with that name before. Weird.

They look desperately for traffic by posting into other forums by putting in some opinion about CCC and supporting their club and inviting others to go over there, but only engine release news have been posted so far in most of the threads in gap of what seems like months between each topic.

Who are you refering by saying 'they'?? We might have a lot more posts here, but the quality is not compareable.

Obviously, I was referring to the admin, not the members. I can't talk about quality when there are hardly any posts other than engine release news. Honest opinion. So Sorry but we agree to disagree here, and we do agree on so many topics, but not this one

I simply dont think that you are stating the truth. I visited winboard forum quite often, but I never noticed anyone trying to force others to join.

No, I never said they encouraged others to join, please read the above quote again, Tony. They encourage other posters from CCC to go over to winboard and start discussing there just because there have been intense disagreement or crisis or high number of smileys used or whatever, I'm absolutely being honest.

[Tony Thomas]

My experience with the Winboard forum isn't really nice. I was called a troll and warned to stop spamming just for stating my opinion, so I left.

Agreed, I have seen such cases, some people have even been banned for it.
They have even put keyword ban in registration forms in sign up pages, that is for example the software would automatically ban someone who tries to register under the name, for say, "Rohan", just because they had banned someone else with that name before. Weird.

They look desperately for traffic by posting into other forums by putting in some opinion about CCC and supporting their club and inviting others to go over there, but only engine release news have been posted so far in most of the threads in gap of what seems like months between each topic.

Who are you refering by saying 'they'?? We might have a lot more posts here, but the quality is not compareable.

Obviously, I was referring to the admin, not the members. I can't talk about quality when there are hardly any posts other than engine release news. Honest opinion. So Sorry but we agree to disagree here, and we do agree on so many topics, but not this one

I simply dont think that you are stating the truth. I visited winboard forum quite often, but I never noticed anyone trying to force others to join.

No, I never said they encouraged others to join, please read the above quote again, Tony. They encourage other posters from CCC to go over to winboard and start discussing there just because there have been intense disagreement or crisis or high number of smileys used or whatever, I'm absolutely being honest.

Show me some evidence, I am not a fan of too many smileys, unless I am trying to be goofy. Volker hardly ever posted here..

[Aleks Peshkov]

I understand that my opinion is unexpected, but I vote to NOT revive Winboard forum.

What we need is read only archive for Winboard and CCC programming subforums with working search function. I doubt that wiki can ever substitute years of past discussions.

[swami]

Show me some evidence, I am not a fan of too many smileys, unless I am trying to be goofy. Volker hardly ever posted here..

Hi Tony, I edited and posted it already in previous post, but anyway,I could find more of such types. http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... highlight=

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

My experience with the Winboard forum isn't really nice. I was called a troll and warned to stop spamming just for stating my opinion, so I left.

Agreed, I have seen such cases, some people have even been banned for it.
They have even put keyword ban in registration forms in sign up pages, that is for example the software would automatically ban someone who tries to register under the name, for say, "Rohan", just because they had banned someone else with that name before. Weird.

They look desperately for traffic by posting into other forums by putting in some opinion about CCC and supporting their club and inviting others to go over there, but only engine release news have been posted so far in most of the threads in gap of what seems like months between each topic.

Who are you refering by saying 'they'?? We might have a lot more posts here, but the quality is not compareable.

Obviously, I was referring to the admin, not the members. I can't talk about quality when there are hardly any posts other than engine release news. Honest opinion. So Sorry but we agree to disagree here, and we do agree on so many topics, but not this one

I simply dont think that you are stating the truth. I visited winboard forum quite often, but I never noticed anyone trying to force others to join.

No, I never said they encouraged others to join, please read the above quote again, Tony. They encourage other posters from CCC to go over to winboard and start discussing there just because there have been intense disagreement or crisis or high number of smileys used or whatever, I'm absolutely being honest.

Show me some evidence, I am not a fan of too many smileys, unless I am trying to be goofy. Volker hardly ever posted here..

Sorry Swami,but I have to agree with Tony regarding this issue,I've never read anything like that and note that I am a daily reader day after day for years now,but....

[Roman Hartmann]

I understand that my opinion is unexpected, but I vote to NOT revive Winboard forum.

What we need is read only archive for Winboard and CCC programming subforums with working search function. I doubt that wiki can ever substitute years of past discussions.

Well, I would certainly like to see the Winboard forum live on but I completely agree with your 2nd point: The programming subforum should be saved by all means (and no, I wasn't one of those who tried to download the whole forum ...).

best regards
Roman

[Tony Thomas]

Show me some evidence, I am not a fan of too many smileys, unless I am trying to be goofy. Volker hardly ever posted here..

Hi Tony, I edited and posted it already in previous post, but anyway,I could find more of such types. http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... highlight=

Let me reply to you in someone elses style..You would have to guess the name of the person and pm me..

Did you turn your blinkers off?? That was just a joke from Volker and as you can see I gave him what he wanted.
Saurekraut, nuts, peanuts, Krutons..

[swami]

Ok I take back what I'd said and apologize but I was kind of getting that impression from some of his other posts where this forum had been criticized but i don't plan to do search again.

Pm'ed you..

[jdart]

Volker and others there have always been nice to me. I wonder though, given the decline in traffic, if it would make sense to make the best of the content available and searchable but not keep it as an active forum. In their 400MB there is sure to be a lot of posts you wouldn't want to save for any reason - they were just transient discussions or announcements. But there was a series of very active discussions there on bitboards that in particular are valuable, and otehr good things. Maybe this content should be donated to a site that is still active, like the chess programming wiki (http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/). Or perhaps this forum could host some archived discussions (not the whole 400MB) from the Winboard forum.



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