My view is that cheating is primarily a moral issue, and that morality cannot be "legislated." You can't force someone to be moral. Rules won't make someone more moral. The moral must be chosen; you
Can't agree more with you, Rick, we share totally same attitude to the matter! 73, Mirko, S57AD _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http:
My view is that cheating is primarily a moral issue, and that morality cannot be "legislated." You can't force someone to be moral. Rules won't make someone more moral. The moral must be chosen; you
Frankly I am really tired of this topic. The idea that cheaters are hiding behind every tree is not something that I want to talk about. This seems to be the favorite topic of a very small highly sel
I agree with Bill... with the additional thoughts that this is exactly what is killing contesting.Who wants to play with a BUNCH of cheaters? You are who you associate with.So.. guilty by association
I agree with Bill, this topic is in an endless loop. You cheat, you suck...plain and simple. Seriously.....if you are the type of person that finds great pleasure in screwing the rest of the ham
When the prizes for a Amateur radio contest equate to serious cash you can talk to me about video and audio recording and having to hire an entire staff to make sure the rules are followed. Until the
Why, then, are all competitive events governed by rules? Because, without rules, morality would not be a factor in the results. change anyone's morality. Morality is always a factor in the results,
For once ... ;) ... I have to completely agree with Paul ... amazingly on every point he made below. A "contest" without rules is not a contest at all, and history has shown time and time again that
And a separate list for cheaters. This probably would result in chaos since 99% of entrants are obviously cheating. But I imagine it would be nice to share cheating techniques, innovations in configu
"Until then I think the public outing of the perpetrators and life time bans are sufficient. " Yeah, that's actually the problem ... those don't happen. You see people posting all the time about chea
That's not a contest, though. If you don't want to contest for whatever reason, that's fine, but it hardly makes sense to make everyone else give up contesting. And just to be clear ... you aren't ag
If the sponsors are not going to do anything we can either accept that cheaters may win the contest and absolutely nothing will get done about it or not operate in those contests. Call it a boycott i
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:53:52 +0200
Mike, I don't think that's realy fair to CQ. I'm under the impression that if there is one sponsor that tries to do something about cheating, it's CQ magazine. However, I think it's a shame that chea