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answer to your point, Jason
Posted By: Phil Simborg In Response To: three sides to every story/important clarifications (Jason Pack)
Date: Thursday, 9 April 2015, at 6:26 p.m.
"It is surprising to me how much time you and others have taken up on commenting on an episode on which you were not involved and the details of which you are not privy."
I, and others, were not commenting so much on this episode, but on the principles involved, how episodes like this should be handled, what the rules should be, how people should accept and respect and deal with the rules, and also we were responding to things said in this thread.
Your incident, by itself, is not something I addressed very much, but all the above. Why would I and others take so much time to write about it, and why are so many people reading what we have written? Because we care a lot about rules and ethics and making backgammon tournaments a more pleasant and "safe" place to play. And because the backgammon community is not completely organized and in agreement as to what the rule should be...as you said...they are different all over the world. Many of us don't think it should be so different all over the world. Many of us think it is important to point out why we need to have more clear, lengthy, definitive rules, while others, many of them highly respected players and TD's feel just the opposite. Too many rules and too much explanation would cause players not to read them at all. They want to leave things looser and up to the TD's more. Two schools of thought, and debates like this and situations like this give people on both sides a chance to make their points about what rules we have, what we should have, and how and when people abuse them and how that should be handled.
Don't be so sensitive that this is all about you (and Victor). It's about the issues and principles involved. What they say or do about what you did means very little to me compared to using situations like this to better clarify the rules and to point out to all that it is their responsibility to know and live by the rules and to be good sports (within the rules).
If you were the only "suspect" bad-actor in the game we'd just laugh this off...but there are many out there, unfortunately, who have intentionally cheated and unfairly taken advantage of their opponents, and because of those few bad actors, which, unfortunately, little or nothing has been done about it because of lack of organization (and guts), we all are more suspicious and sensitive about these things than we should have to be.
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