[CQ-Contest] Contesting and cheating

[Paul J. Piercey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Kelly Taylor
> Sent: December 17, 2007 00:12
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Contesting and cheating
> 
> It seems to me that some of the cures suggested for cheating 
> are worse than the disease.
> 
> Contest software that self-destructs? Is this Mission Impossible? 
> Clandestine receiving stations around the world? What, the 
> cold war of contesting?
> 
> Really. Some of this stuff is approaching the hyperbole and 
> hysteria surrounding some of the great social engineering 
> blunders in history: Reefer Madness, Prohibition, the 
> Crusades. All in the name of what, making sure that 10,852nd 
> position is awarded fairly?
> 
> Yes, logs at the top of meaningful distinctions (Top US, Top 
> DX, Top Asia,
> etc.) probably could use some more scrutiny. But I have yet 
> to see evidence that what we require is a total, 
> authoritarian, Big Brother crackdown on everybody.
> 

So it's OK to cheat in the bottom or middle of the pack but not OK to cheat
to win? Sorry, that just seems a little condescending to those of us who
provide those much-needed points to the winners. I will most likely never
win a major contest but I should have the same expectation of fairness that
my position is accurate as anyone else in the contest.


73 -- Paul VO1HE