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- From: kovar@WORLD.STD.COM (David C Kovar)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.dipl-l
- Subject: Game hornet vanishing
- Message-ID: <199212212233.AA28159@world.std.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:33:56 GMT
- Sender: Discussion Group for the Game Diplomacy <DIPL-L@MITVMA.BITNET>
- Reply-To: David C Kovar <kovar@WORLD.STD.COM>
- Lines: 48
- Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
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- In article <DIPL-L%92122114244576@MITVMA.BITNET> "PLUTO::DELEMOSM"
- <DELEMOSM%PLUTO.decnet@APRINT.DHMC.DARTMOUTH.EDU> from DIPL-L writes:
- >Help!
- >My game has disappeared. I signed up for game "hornet" on the eff judge last
- >Thursday (maybe it was Friday...). I received a message today that indicated
- >that the game moderator had resigned, and when I sent a "list hornet" command
- >to the judge, I was advised that my game did not exist. Does anyone have an
- >idea how I can find out what happened to my game? Better yet, does anybody
- >know what happened to my game? It was my first attempt to sign on to a game,
- >and I must admit, it makes me feel a little unwanted.
-
- David Kovar (jdr@morrolan.eff.org), runs the EFF judge, and has
- a rule that says that all games on the judge must remain moderated. I
- hoped he would answer this one, but perhaps he is not getting DIPL-L.
-
- He has been routinely wiping all non-moderated games from his judge, in
- order to maintain this rule. The rule is in place, as unmoderated
- games, and moderated without a moderator games, inevitably mean extra
- work for the judge keeper (jdr), as he must end up being the moderator.
- The jdr has enough work to do.
-
- I believe that David has suspended creation of ANY games now at EFF until
- after the holidays.
-
- Nick
-
- ------- End of Forwarded Message
-
- The judge informed me that the moderator for hornet resigned. It would have
- taken a few days to track down the moderator, find out what happened, and
- get him back or get a new moderator. It was much easier to wipe the game
- and let someone who was interested in moderating a game create a new one.
-
- As Nick noted, I am not allowing any unmoderated games to exist on
- the EFF judge since they add complexity to an already complex and
- somewhat time consuming process. If the moderator wasn't sufficiently
- motivated to run a game he created, the game shouldn't exist.
-
- It is my intention to distribute the work load for running email
- Diplomacy among as many people as possible to decrease the work load
- on any one individual and prevent burnout if possible.
-
- Hopefully this doesn't sound too harsh. I did not intend to make anyone
- feel "rejected" by the judge.
-
- -David
-