Well...well...there IS a Santa Clause after all or at least someone with a conscious...
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InfraDrive to resign after the current CBC contest.
New postby Ehab » Mon May 17, 2010 3:37 am
Hello Botmasters,
After some discussions regarding the future of CBC with Wendell Cowart (The CBC Founder, known as chriscc17 at CBC Forums), InfraDrive (Managed by me) is going to fully resign from CBC website including the technical development of the website leaving the future administration and ownership to Wendell after announcing the results of the current contest.
As for CBC botmasters has the right to know the reasons, here are some reasons:
- InfraDrive failed to manage this year's contest due to the outdated rules which was originally set by the owner which leads to dissatisfaction for some botmasters.
- I was going to fix this issues in the upcoming CBC 2011 (Updating contest rules & developing new CBC system for judges), however Wendell decided to knock me out due to the general failure based on his point of view.
Wendell mentioned the following reasons:
1) You failed to follow the rules of the contest regarding the 10 questions. In short you made the CBC look rather foolish by not doing so.
2) You failed to conduct even a basic investigation when allowing bots to enter contest. Allowing Elvis Bot which was such a blant clone proves my point.
3) You failed to control the message board allowing personal attacks such as this. Once you create a hostile environment very few people will contine to post.
I'm a fan of the CBC and do not have a bot but I like to see fair play. No wonder chriscc17 isn't too bothered about Mitsuku being removed from the contest. I noticed these logs for his Talk-Bot and Mitsuku:
Yunchuan Zhang: What season will spring follow?
Talk-Bot: Alrighty...say do you like cats or dogs better?
Human: What season will spring follow?
Mitsuku: Spring comes after Winter.
Nothing like removing the competition if you can't beat them eh? Take heart squarebear. You can at least know that your chatbot was the winner of round one and, in my opinion, deservedly so.
The last post that he claims as "personal attack" (posted by: jimmyb) was actually a theory that was waiting to be cleared from Wendell, but instead of replying to it, he reported the post as a personal attack!
In fact, board members added some good suggestions for the upcoming CBC and provide reasons for why changing the rules.
Regarding the 10 questions, I gave judges the freedom to set the 10 questions (3 questions for each one). Each judge has the reasons behind the purpose of each question.
Finally, there is an important point I'd like to add. I originally decided to host CBC (back in late 2008) for technical development only for the CBC website and not for managing the contest but Wendell decided to leave the website including managing the contest. So I've nothing to do but to manage the contest as well (as it's the purpose of CBC website) for 2 years. But since there is no core development in the contest's purpose and rules and since he decided to get back the CBC, then it's useless to continue to develop CBC website.
Thanks for your understanding and good luck for the next CBC.
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Now we know!
