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KGSThe Kiseido Go Server/ Discussion
Sub-page of KGSTheKiseidoGoServer
Hu: Please use this page to discuss the main KGS page, and to report any events of a temporary nature, such as server outages. (Sebastian:) I think we can delete the second half of your sentence since there now is a page to enter this information: KGSStatus. How to treat KGS pages on SL?There recently has been a flurry of KGS pages. While many of them have names that start with "KGS", such as KGSStatus, KGSBots, KGSTunnel, KGSAssistantOfTheYear, KGSGameResultWeighting and KGSMentoringScheme, the following don't: This is a problem because these pages assume that readers know that this is about KGS. Some terms are very general, but the problems discussed are specific to KGS. AsianFonts is an example for a page that should not remain on SL - this should be an integral part of the CGoban2 help (see below). Joke pages with titles such as "KSU" are distracting, because this acronym can stand for a thousand other (and serious) things. Maybe we could rename such pages to be a subpage of KGSHumo(u)r?. (BTW, we should discourage the use of TLAs, anyway - particularly in page titles.) CGoban2 Help [1]
Many of the KGS pages discussed above have the function of help pages.
A long time ago, MK wrote a wish that KGS needs better help files. wms's time is probably better spent on improving the program itself, but this would be an ideal use for a wiki wiki web. The obvious appropriate place for this would be kokiri ashamed though i am to be asking this... does anyone know exactly what is happening to the KGS rating system at the moment? I saw that there was some change in the system the other day, but over the last two days during which i haven't played, my rating has tanked upwards, and the downwards wildly. Is the change being applied retrospecively or only to future games and why should there be more than one adjustment? Can one expect a one off adjustment or will it be nosiy for a while? frankly, compelling though it is, i think the ratings graph function of KGS is by far its biggest flaw, but in the face of my own hypocracy, i would like to know what to expect... wms: The rating system was totally unchanged for about 3 years. Then I took a close look at handicap results, saw that its performance could be improved. I was fiddling with a few things, trying to find a workable system, the current system seems reasonable, so I hope to leave it alone for a while now. Sorry for the chaos these changes caused for a while. [1] According to Hu's initial statement, we could move this discussion to a different page. This is a copy of the living page "KGSThe Kiseido Go Server/ Discussion" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |