Can't agree more with you, Rick, we share totally same attitude to the
matter!
73, Mirko, S57AD
2012/9/14 Rick Kiessig <kiessig@gmail.com>
> My view is that cheating is primarily a moral issue, and that morality
> cannot be "legislated." You can't force someone to be moral. Rules won't
> make someone more moral. The moral must be chosen; you have to want to be
> moral.
>
>
>
> If a cheater "wins," their victory will be hollow, because, as with all
> immoral actions, they will ultimately find it to be unsatisfying, and even
> damaging, because they know what they've done, even if no one else does. In
> addition, when others do find out about their cheating (as they often do),
> that's likely to further diminish the value of the win.
>
>
>
> Only an honest competitor will truly enjoy the win for the long term.
>
>
>
> Rules should be enforced, but they should also be enforceable. Yes, some
> cheats will slip through, maybe even some "winners." So what? People who
> don't care about cheating will continue to do what they do regardless of
> how
> many rules are applied. The rest of us should get on with our lives and not
> let the few bad apples spoil this great sport.
>
>
>
> To reinforce this point, I would like to suggest a move in the opposite
> direction from Yuri's recent post: fewer rules all around, not more. Rules
> should be enforceable, which means they should be based on what's reported
> in logs and maybe some limited (reliable) secondary data. Trying to
> legislate things like power levels, assisted vs. not, use of a local
> Skimmer, and so on, is just a waste of time and effort.
>
>
>
> Fewer rules would also make it easier for those of us who are honest to be
> more confident that we haven't accidentally broken some rule (for example,
> if I left my PC in the other room connected to a cluster, but didn't use it
> during the contest, will I be considered by others to be assisted or not?).
> If you do have an honest win, why spoil it with some nagging doubt about
> whether you fully, absolutely complied with the rules?
>
>
>
> 73, Rick ZL2HAM
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