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Cheating and the farcical nature of MP awarded for online, non-proctored play

Posted By: Rod
Date: Wednesday, 4 December 2013, at 11:53 p.m.

In Response To: USBGF proposed master point system (Stick)

If I was either A) 100% certain the person cheated or B) my current 99% and it was for $ or an important match (some non-trivial round of a competition) then I would post it.

However, I'm not posting to call someone out on their cheating - I simply won't be playing this person again.

The issue here is people's propensity to cheat. http://www.caveon.com/why-we-cheat/

My guess is that some large percent of players cheat at least occasionally. There's no proof I can offer as to that statement. There are no blind-questionnaires I can point to. Students who are asked if they have cheated (any form of academic dishonesty, basically) report a high rate of having cheated. They report that they know of someone, personally, who has cheated at a rate almost 20% higher. They even lie about cheating, an interesting and common result.

I think that online cheating is under-estimated. I think awarding points for online play makes those points virtually meaningless. Even less meaningful than however meaningless (or meaningful) they supposedly are. They become farcical.

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