cisco2001 wrote:I've been participating in this thread for as long as I can remember. Regardless, if you boil all of this down you are able to find a few recurring themes.
1. Soloman and Riskmaster favor each other in games.
2. The numbers don't lie and their winning percentages are much higher when they play together
3. Soloman is extremely antagonistic towards anyone that posts in this thread; including people that tend to defend him.
4. Soloman's grammar and spelling have not improved at all.
The bottom line is that there has been favoritism between the two brothers. Soloman has confirmed this by electing to not play with him any more. That ,in itself, is a statement of guilt. If Soloman really believed that his games with Riskmaster were on the up and up then they would continue playing with each other.
The solution is very simple. Prohibit them from playing each other and the problem is gone. Soloman can argue that they have voluntarily stopped playing with each other and that no further action is necessary. However, what if they decide a month down the road to play a few triples games? Then what? A new thread is opened and we start this very painful and laborious process all over again. I'm not sure if I can read much more of Soloman's Faulknerish commentary.
Guilt has been admitted by the accused parties by the fact that they stopped playing with each other. All that's left is to implement a block to assure that they no longer roll over unsuspecting players. Again, I'm confident we don't want to go down this road ever again.
I agree with most of this, and its fairly obvious at one time they favored each other in games...the math is pretty blatant... however, them stopping isnt necessarily an admission of guilt. Many innocent players have stopped playing together.
What should have happened here, is an apology and a promise not to play in public games.... its the refusal to admit that possibly some players were cheated thats the problem. If it were possible to just block public games, that would be fine in this case...its the obvious dishonesty that makes it hard to trust them now, and the only reason a block might be necessary.
Im not even suggesting they were purposely favoring each other, but for either of them to say the games played out fairly when the stats are convincing that they did not, means they simply refuse to accept responsibility. A sorry, we wont do anything like that again 20 pages ago and the acceptance that even subconciously they may have favored each other would have ended this.