On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Ian Kelly wrote: > I'm starting to think that the without-objections approval and > disintegration processes are just overkill. We've never required it > for contests before, and there haven't been any problems that couldn't > be avoided by better-written rules.
I looked back at old Points Contest rules while drafting this. Before, we basically limited scams by saying basing points awards on # of players, and making incremental awards small enough that a pure "I award points to you" scam just got you 5% of the way to a win per week, so creeping and boring. The main problem now is the multiplication through partnerships/second-class persons...it should be prevented while allowing for the possibility of a "team" joining or running a legitimate game. -Goethe
