I'm with Wayne on this issue.
If a contest changes the rules, then blame the contest manager who changed
the rule.. Don't blame Wayne or WL for not having ESP.
Part of being a contest manager (been there, done that) is reaching out and
maintaining a good relationship with the software vendors that support your
event. Failure to do that results in this sort of problem.
If YOU know of a rule change for your favorite contest, then YOU need to
verify, and say something BEFORE you use it in that changed contest. If you
automatically assume things will always be rose petals in your path, you're
likely to be tripped up a lot by hidden roots.
73, Alan AD6E
> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 04:50:48 +0000
> From: Bob Henderson <bob.5b4agn@gmail.com>
> To: w5xd@writelog.com
> Cc: "[WriteLog]" <writelog@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] ok-om contest
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> Wayne
>
> A lot of us have kept the faith with WL for a long time and for good
> reason. WL is an excellent contest logger but keeping abreast of contest
> rules with so many events in the annual calendar is clearly proving to be a
> significant challenge.
>
> I have done rather well in contests with WL and hope I can continue to do
> so but I feel it is getting harder. A month back I raised concerns over
> the scoring irregularities associated with the Russian DX Contest. These
> turned out to be the same concerns reported two years earlier, which went
> unaddressed and ended up with at least one high profile contester switching
> permanently to an alternative logging package. Following my note re RDX
> others wrote saying they suffered the same problems but felt there was
> little interest in fixing them. I confess I found their opinions hard to
> counter given my observations received no acknowledgement, let alone any
> commitment they would be addressed. Scoring in the RDX module has been
> incorrect for at least 3 years now. This is way too long. Particularly so
> when RDX is one of the major events in the annual contest calendar and for
> the last two years a WRTC 2018 qualifying event.
>
> I would dearly love to see WL top of the pile in contest logging but it
> really can't be when modules for even major contests don't reflect current
> rules.
>
> 73 Bob, 5B4AGN
>
> On 11 April 2016 at 02:46, Wayne, W5XD <w5xd@writelog.com> wrote:
>
> > > The problem is the Wayne can?t be a one man show and keep up with all
> the
> > > contests. The third party guys have stopped developing and we users
> > > who paid
> > > for the sofware are left holding the bag. N1MM has a bunch of active
> > > contesters who keep things up to day. Very hard to compete with. I
> > > feel bad
> > > for the WL developers and team, but that?s progress.
> >
> > Golly. One or two modules get out of date and you're ready to throw in
> > the towel? I am not.
> >
> > The problem with keeping up with rules changes, in my opinion, is more
> > with finding out about rule changes than it is with getting the updates
> > out. The old adage that, "if you want a job done right, you have to do
> > it yourself" means that the WL team needs to make a better effort
> > watching for rule changes--we are obviously guilty as charged. But I
> > hope you'll also understand that posting complaints to the reflector the
> > day after the contest in question ends (as was done to start this
> > thread) might not be the optimum time or method to let the WL team know.
> >
> > > Very hard to compete with.
> > it depends on what you mean by competition. WL users are still winning
> > contests.
> >
> > Wayne
> >
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