Backgammon, Play65, Skurkar??

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Senaste månadens diskusion på Kit Woolseys sida GammOnLine (http://www.gammonline.com) har haft en intressant utveckling.

 

En kort sammanfattning: Kit Woolsey är en av BG:ns förgrundsfigurer, med många böcker och titlar i meritförteckningen. Han sköter sedan typ 1999 ovan nämnda sida där en hel del tunga BG-spelare i världsklass är medlemmar. För några månader sedan blev sidan uppköpt av Play65, med Kit kvar vid "rodret".

 

Hur som helst: Senaste månaderna har det på GammOnLine - och tydligen på många andra BG-forum - framförts åsikter om att Play65 kör med fulspel. Främst i form av att spelare som är på väg att casha ut stora pengar helt plötsligt anklagas för fusk i någon form och får kontot och pengarna frysta. Det här är alltså namngivna, erkänt duktiga, spelare, och antalet verkar vara stort.

 

Detta har fått till följd det stora flertalet av GammOnLines tunga medlemmar (Neil Kazaross bl.a.) lämnat sidan för att de på inget vis vill stödja en sida som förknippas med Play65.

 

Kit Woolsey har nu p.g.a. detta brutit med Play65 och "öppnat nytt" för de gamla medlemmarna, eftersom inte heller han vill ha med Play65 att göra. Nedan följer ett inlägg som Kit lagt in i ärendet.

 

Rätt eller fel? Döm själva!!

 

 

Posted By: Kit Woolsey

Date: Monday, 4 June 2007, at 8:27 a.m.

 

Now that we are on a forum which isn't open to the public, I can speak a bit more freely about things.

 

Everybody was properly angry with play65. Let me assure you that nobody was angrier with them then me. At least most of you didn't have to deal with them. I did, which was awful for many obvious reasons. Of course I erred in selling the domain name to them, but what is done is done.

 

I was fully planning to leave them unless something startling happened, which I never really expected. But you never know -- sometimes pressure and publicity can work wonders. However, I couldn't openly announce my intentions. If I had, they would have denied me access to the site and that would have been disadvantageous for many reasons. Thus, I had to be somewhat cautious about what I said on the forum. If this restriction hadn't existed, my words would have been as strong or stronger than anybody else's.

 

I had tried to tip everybody off with my reminders about where to go if access to play65 was down. In addition to being a practical thing to do (servers do go down sometimes, and it is good to have an available message on a different server), I was also giving a subtle hint of things to come. A few of you picked up on this.

 

Before I left, I had to make sure that I had grabbed all the data I needed from the site. Since I had full access to the site, I was also able to change a couple of links which hopefully won't be noticed. I knew that once I officially left they would of course change the password and I would no longer have access, but until then I could do what I wanted. They have changed the password, of course. If anybody is interested, the ip is 74.52.131.162 and the username which was being used (which they might or might not have changed) was gammonline@online-billiard.net. I had access via ftp. So if any of you are accomplshed hackers ....

 

Certainly some good came out of this. Eric and Dave got money back which they might well not have gotten had it not been for our intervention. Anybody who looked at the site would have seen what was being said. The postings had to cost play65 some members, and the bad publicity had to hurt them. Perhaps they may have some incentive to modify their policies, even if they are unwilling to admit what they have done is wrong.

 

Since this is a closed forum, postings on this site aren't going to reach the general public. So it is very important for everybody to continue to blast them on r.g.b. and other open forums. Publicity is the only weopon there is against this sort of crookedness, and it can be very effective.

 

Kit

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Tyvärr så tror jag inte Play65 bryr sig speciellt mycket om medlemmarnas protester. Frågan är om de ens når till någon på Play65 som har någon påverkan på företagets policy.

 

I och med flytten så tappar de alla nya inlägg men de får fortfarande effekten av att google-träffarna på gammalt material kommer att ha reklamlänkar vidare till spelsajten.

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Tyvärr så tror jag inte Play65 bryr sig speciellt mycket om medlemmarnas protester. Frågan är om de ens når till någon på Play65 som har någon påverkan på företagets policy.

 

I och med flytten så tappar de alla nya inlägg men de får fortfarande effekten av att google-träffarna på gammalt material kommer att ha reklamlänkar vidare till spelsajten.

 

Jovisst, men här handlar det bara om att sprida ordet om dåligt förfarande från play65:s sida vidare bland dem som kan tänkas vilja spela på deras site.