Bill wrote: I think disqualification should not be done by a computer. It
should only
come by careful consideration by a human judge.
Computers don't disqualify logs. The log checkers do. Those guys are savvy
enough about contesting to make a reasoned judgement. Perhaps Dave could
chime in - how many logs does he see with 5-7% uniques? I bet there aren't
that many, except perhaps from UN where 1 big local submits the only log
with a lot of little guns in it that can't work anyone else?
greg
na8v/4
sent this to Bill, meant to copy the reflector:
----- Original Message -----
From: Henry Chapoton <chapoton@mindspring.com>
To: Bill Coleman AA4LR <aa4lr@radio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [SECC] Comments requested.
> AA4LR wrote:
>
> It is certainly possible for someone to convince non-contesters to give
> them a contact. In fact, my Sweepstakes SSB log from 1999, with just 249
> contacts had two uniques because I did just that.
>
> I think it is wrong to penalise someone just because they have a knack
> for getting the exchange out of a non-contester. So, they end up with a
> bunch of uniques -- there's absolutely ZERO proof that the uniques are
> not ligitimate contacts.
>
> I reply:
>
> Right, you had 1% uniques. Most uniques are busted calls, that's what
UBN+1
> is all about. As Dave said, most of the guys that make 1 contact will
make
> a couple more- generally with the big signals/high scorers/most likely to
> submit log types. To get to 5% or even 7% unique takes some doing, and
> generally something is wrong. I know a couple WRTC types that have been
> DQ'd - all it did was make them better ops in the future. How many logs
get
> DQ'd? Not many. How many get contacts removed? lots of them - but those
> are for confirmed errors. I don't see where the problem is - you're
making
> a mountain out of a molehill.
>
> greg
> na8v/4
>
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