Yes, ever one is treated the same. Let’s just put the fact that you all openly allow Battsgo to sandbag on your site and promote his stream. Batts has said that he had/has a 4 or 5 dan AGA rating. Yesterday, on the last stream Batts was playing on an account rated 1 dan. His opponent was 1 kyu when he played a ranked game. So, no the rules do not apply to everyone equally.
I don’t care to talk about my disability in the open. I will talk about it in the open, I said I will not talk about my medical history.
As far as I’m aware, the deal with Dwyrin is indeed supposed to be that he should play unranked games:
But I remember there are several voices saying that for teaching purposes an exception should be made for Dwyrin, since there’s a thing to be weighed here: whether the benefit his videos have on the Go community outweigh the drawback of people playing a sandbagger.
I don’t see how that applies to your situation. How would allowing you to sandbag have any benefits other than giving you the possibility to cut games short against opponents you don’t wish to play mid-way?
Having a disability does not change that ending ranked games prematurely is problematic. There’s an easy solution for those who cannot finish games to the end all the time, namely unranked games, thus I believe we do not exclude you from playing on this server with a disability that prevents you from finishing your games.
Please clarify why you need to play ranked as well as be allowed to abandon games?
Let me be clear, I am an open book when it comes to my disability. I will talk about it openly when asked, this is the only time I will just come out and say I have a disability. The one and only thing I will never talk about here is my medical history. People can ask and I will tell them. An example question I will answer is, How long have you been diagnosed? 3 years in July.
Do you not see how your logic is circular?
If you don’t want to be treated special play unranked games. Why do you need to play rank games? Anyone can play a ranked game, but I need to answer the question first. If I need to answer a question about why I should be allowed to play a ranked game, that is special treatment. For it not to be special treatment every mod has to ask everyone why they need to play rank games.
I am giving everyone a heads-up about something that may or may not happen. I am saying that there is a possibility that I can be reported as a sandbagger, because of my cognitive function decline. I know I have declined over the past year, which is why I am starting to play again.
I think there’s some ambiguity regarding what exactly you’ve been asking, and they don’t want to give you inaccurate advice regarding whether or not your potential use case follows the rules, so they’re asking more explicitly how you’re planning to play ranked so they can more accurately answer your question
And note (I think everyone here understands this, but just clarifying) that “Abandonment” means leaving the game without resigning. If you’re resigning/cancelling, that’s not abandonment, though it as mentioned may depending on the circumstances be an issue on other counts in ranked
Hmm actually I think we are also talking about resigning games that are not clearly lost. As this has an adverse affect on rank. (At least that’s why I worded it as “abandon ranked games”)
Yes, that is also being discussed, but unless I’m mistaken, that isn’t considered Abandonment on OGS, right? not saying it’s allowed, just that it’s not that particular thing
I personally had assumed that the person with cognitive impairment was talking about abandonment, which is leaving or failing to play - also known as “escaping” or “stopped playing”.
If games are abandoned while winning then it is also sandbagging.
If games are resigned while “not clearly losing”, that is “just sandbagging”.
The “I don’t care how it looks” intro doesn’t invite a beat I’d like to dance to, for starters.
However
I’m guessing you like to play Go, and ideally would like to finish your games. Maybe play 13x13? They’re shorter, a very respectable alternative and over in less moves.
Maybe you’re right. I was not referring to any OGS definition (I think OGS generally uses the word “escaping” anyway), but rather the definition OP had given earlier:
(Darn, my fault for introducing another word for the same thing )
There have recently been some “guidelines” established for unranked games, where it’s been said that if you clearly arrange with your opponent before the game commences then you can do almost whatever you like in unranked games.
However, it’s important to be clear that this doesn’t mean you can establish these things in game chat. Once game chat is available, the game has already started, and your opponent is entitled not to be ambushed with proposals at that point.
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