There is some crazy stuff going on here
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 8:11 am
Hi!
I have never visited this forum before, but I've been doing tsumegos on this site every once in a while. Recently I have noticed lots of relatively simple problems with weird and often unrelated descriptions and commentary. For example, in one description the creator told people to stop downvoting his problems and that he would continue posting them no matter how much people downvoted them. Another problem I saw used a ruleset the problems creator had made up himself as well as some unusual komi. Neither knowing about the ruleset nor the komi was necessary to solve the problem, which was a simple endgame tesuji or something like that.
So I chose to come to the forum to complain about these, only to notice that the same people who have created these problems have also flooded the forums with (mostly) nonsense posts.
I have no experience in moderating a website like this, but I have a feeling that something should be done about this. Adding new problems to the site could be disabled entirely for a few months, or new additions could only be accepted from selected users.
I have never visited this forum before, but I've been doing tsumegos on this site every once in a while. Recently I have noticed lots of relatively simple problems with weird and often unrelated descriptions and commentary. For example, in one description the creator told people to stop downvoting his problems and that he would continue posting them no matter how much people downvoted them. Another problem I saw used a ruleset the problems creator had made up himself as well as some unusual komi. Neither knowing about the ruleset nor the komi was necessary to solve the problem, which was a simple endgame tesuji or something like that.
So I chose to come to the forum to complain about these, only to notice that the same people who have created these problems have also flooded the forums with (mostly) nonsense posts.
I have no experience in moderating a website like this, but I have a feeling that something should be done about this. Adding new problems to the site could be disabled entirely for a few months, or new additions could only be accepted from selected users.