Check out McCooey's Hexagonal Chess, our featured variant for May, 2025.

Enter Your Reply

The Comment You're Replying To
H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Feb 16 06:15 AM EST in reply to Kevin Pacey from 12:18 AM:

Well, as an editor I consider it my task to guard the quality of this website. I don't comment because I am bored and looking for a pass time; I comment for a purpose. Whenever I see something that could be improved with reasonable effort, I point it out so that the opportunity to fix it would not be missed. Praise serves no purpose; it would just leave things as they are, which is the same as what would happen without it.

I am sorry if that conflicts with your intentions, which seems to be to present things as quickly as possible in a sub-optimal form. Which in practice of course is not quickly at all, but just delays publishing, possibly indefinitely. I hope that you realize that every action you have taken so for in this matter is aimed at delaying publication. Flaws in a submission don't go away by arguing about them, so all time you spend on arguing just adds to the time it needs to get published. Especially when the arguing consist exclusively out of bullshit arguments.

Normal, and thus expected behavior is that authors care about their publication, and do everything in their power to make it flawless and of high quality. So if small flaws and imperfections are pointed out to them, they typically have those fixed the next day. It doesn't matter much who pointed out the imperfections; a typo remains a typo whether an editor, an ordinary member or a gueat points it out, and editors are unlikely to repeat a remark about an obvious flaw. So ignoring criticism in the hope the editor will let you get away with it usually just leads to a deadlock where author and editor are waiting for each other.

That goal posts can move is known as 'progress'. Obviously we cannot require use of PNG or SVG graphics when these do not exist yet. Requiring people to create their own SVGs, even though possible, might no longer be 'reasonable effort' when the same glyph is available as GIF. But at some point in time better quality images were created, and made available at this site. There was a time when we accepted even diagrams in ascii art.

I wouldn't consider it an unreasonable request that you improve your diagrams in all your submissions by using the Auto Alfaerie PNG set; most people would be glad that they now have the opportunity to present their variants in a more glamorous way, and it would only take 15 x 1 min or so. About 100 times less than the time you have already spent on arguing.

A more serious problem might be the 'serial-publication issue', though. I don't know if we have an official policy for that, but I have seen several times that editors rejected submissions because these were only marginally different from already published variants, with the remark: just add this tiny rule variation in the Notes section. I am pretty sure that when I submitted a page for describing Wildebeest Chess with the only change that stalemate was a draw, it would be rejeced on those grounds. And some of your new submissions are awfully similar.

So how about working on trying to achieve publication for a change, instead of going to extreme lengths in order to delay it further? E.g. how do you feel about merging the submissions for Janus Spiel and Centaur Spiel into that of Accelerated Courier Spiel, and letting Aurelian create an Interactive Diagram (using Alfaerie PNG, of course) that can be switched between the three of those through buttons, to be used as main diagram?


Edit Form

Comment on the page How to Design and Post Your Own Game

Conduct Guidelines
This is a Chess variants website, not a general forum.
Please limit your comments to Chess variants or the operation of this site.
Keep this website a safe space for Chess variant hobbyists of all stripes.
Because we want people to feel comfortable here no matter what their political or religious beliefs might be, we ask you to avoid discussing politics, religion, or other controversial subjects here. No matter how passionately you feel about any of these subjects, just take it someplace else.
Avoid Inflammatory Comments
If you are feeling anger, keep it to yourself until you calm down. Avoid insulting, blaming, or attacking someone you are angry with. Focus criticisms on ideas rather than people, and understand that criticisms of your ideas are not personal attacks and do not justify an inflammatory response.
Quick Markdown Guide

By default, new comments may be entered as Markdown, simple markup syntax designed to be readable and not look like markup. Comments stored as Markdown will be converted to HTML by Parsedown before displaying them. This follows the Github Flavored Markdown Spec with support for Markdown Extra. For a good overview of Markdown in general, check out the Markdown Guide. Here is a quick comparison of some commonly used Markdown with the rendered result:

Top level header: <H1>

Block quote

Second paragraph in block quote

First Paragraph of response. Italics, bold, and bold italics.

Second Paragraph after blank line. Here is some HTML code mixed in with the Markdown, and here is the same <U>HTML code</U> enclosed by backticks.

Secondary Header: <H2>

  • Unordered list item
  • Second unordered list item
  • New unordered list
    • Nested list item

Third Level header <H3>

  1. An ordered list item.
  2. A second ordered list item with the same number.
  3. A third ordered list item.
Here is some preformatted text.
  This line begins with some indentation.
    This begins with even more indentation.
And this line has no indentation.

Alt text for a graphic image

A definition list
A list of terms, each with one or more definitions following it.
An HTML construct using the tags <DL>, <DT> and <DD>.
A term
Its definition after a colon.
A second definition.
A third definition.
Another term following a blank line
The definition of that term.