Proposal for guidelines for reporting incomplete games

[Ricky B]

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So why the opposition? Perhaps the problem exists only in my head or perhaps it is real. We cannot know without the data and that data is not collected. If the are any good counter arguments to my proposal, I have yet to see them. But my mind is open. I am trying to find a fair solution that works. That people want to stop me is what I find puzzling.

John

John, I can't address the no votes, one of those would have to reply and they don't seem to be doing so. I can only explain why I think it is something I don't care about, so happy with a voluntary guideline that won't change too many player's behavior, and I have said what I will on that.

As to stopping you, I don't believe our illustrious Mr Grumpy was using the poll as a binding vote, but rather to gather input on the member's feeling about this optional guideline. So nobody would be blocking you, at least not only based on the poll.

Players already agree on other things, not documented here at the Blitz, before starting play (must follow "realistic" unit usage for example). We could easily have a pinned post with items like this proposal and others for players to consider if desired, before playing. That is essentially what the proposed solution would be. 

I do like but discount the idea of having duplicate entries for every entry in our game database for reporting these short games against. But the effort to create and just as much maintain down the road the entries for this would be painful, not so much in terms of effort at any one point in time, but just staying on top of over the course of years.