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Originally posted by ebutaljib:
By the way: The sites where you can download chess sets from missimat, Skess, c1arinetboy etc. are still active. And the original links can still be found somewhere in the forum, they are just not all in one place anymore. The official chess sets and patches can still be downloaded from the same adress, you only have to know it. Same goes for the endgame generator, chess sets extracting tool, the file on how to make your own tutorial. Everything is still available, the links are just not collected all in one place anymore. Thats all.


So I beleive the score is Blue 2 vs. Red 1

If you want total win, post The official chess sets and patches can still be downloaded from the same adress. Same goes for the endgame generator, chess sets extracting tool, the file on how to make your own tutorial. Remember there were some replies to the posts that can not be found

This seems like a whole lot of drama. But since this is a chessmaster forum, perhaps this can be resolved over a game of chess? Chess is unrelated, but i find that sometimes, common ground can be used to resolve disputes. Ebu and Beeyrus seemed to get along well while working on the Mod for chessmaster. Who knows? Maybe a game of chess between you two is just what you need.

hei.. hei.. what's matter in here? Who is ebutaljib? who is beeryus? I'm newcomer, but i don't care.

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Originally posted by Juda1975:
Who is ebutaljib? who is beeryus?

Not important.

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Originally posted by chessumastahexa:
ebutaljib is a liar. I'm not a moderator. Never have been.

You are right. I apologise.

I have mistaken you for some other Reuben I have no idea who you are.

I think it's such a shame that such a dedicated member of the community has been treated this way by others.

Ebutaljib: for the vast majority of your time here, you were THE most helpful member of the community and contributed in such a dedicated way by uploading so much information and knowledge and collating other useful bits-and-bobs from here and there into a central hub where others could access the information so easily. For this I give you my utmost thanks as it has helped me enormously. However, I don't quite believe that you wanted to leave the forum, as you could just have deleted your posts and left without another word. Unless you wanted to sever the community and cause its eventual breakdown; except I do not believe this to be the case.

Beeryus: I think that you should leave this forum without returning, as without your constant destructive posts on this thread, it would have been full of farewell's and thank you's otherwise. From what I've seen, you contribute nothing to the community and are the main cause of the controversy here.

To finish off: Ebutaljib, you were an excellent mod and an invaluable member of the community and I implore you to return, with your first action being to ban Beeryus as he from what I can see is just trying to undermine the community and turn it against you.

Finally, if you have nothing nice to say, then say nothing at all. (I know this is hypocritical considering my berating of Beeryus but it did need to be said).

One only has to look at all the posts during the last two weeks to understand how much we all relied on Ebutaljib.

As Ebutaljib was the moderator, if anyone had a difference of opinion, they should have sent him a private message asking him to be more polite; rather than report him or publicly berate him.

Ubi is currently in the process of selecting another moderator -- hopefully after that happens, things will get back to normal.

To be honest, I always feel being asked to moderate a forum is a poisoned chalice, there are always those that question and try to test your authority, whether you're a good moderator or not.
The Ubi forums have lost a lot of good moderators recently, and others seem to rarely do anything now other than act as a policeman.
Hopefully the Forum Managers that Ubi hired will be able to restore things, and make sure forums get suitable moderators.

I also always found ebutjalib to be exceptionally helpful...
A great loss to the forum/s...
Please come back as a moderator ebutjalib!! You have a lot of supporters!!

Effectively, you also deleted other people's posts?! That's not very responsible....two wrongs don't make a right

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Originally posted by Arkansaw:
Effectively, you also deleted other people's posts?! That's not very responsible....two wrongs don't make a right

True, but three rights do make a left.

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Originally posted by Arkansaw:
Effectively, you also deleted other people's posts?! That's not very responsible....two wrongs don't make a right

How many threads did I start? Tell me.


Stop making the impression that I deleted something important.

If ebutaljib had really wanted to cause damage, he could have done a lot more than delete his posts and because of the forum design, take some others posts along too.
I used to be a member of a forum where a rogue administrator deleted members accounts and began to systematically take down the whole web site, and as her first move had been to revoke the other admin and moderators permissions, they were powerless to stop her. Fortunately, the head admin had a back door access to the admin controls and was able to stop her..

The point I'm trying to make, is that ebutaljib could have wreaked havoc on the Chessmaster forums if he'd really wanted to, so some deleted threads are nothing, recently, whole Ubi forums have been deleted as they were no longer busy enough.

Hi ebu,

I'm sorry for your decision. I didn't read all your posts, but I think you have done a great job in chessmaster forums.

It's month #2 without ebutaljib as moderator. Apparently, the UbiSoft team is working to assign a new moderator just about as fast as they work to resolve customer bugs and feature requests.

Yeah that's true

January is a slow month at Ubisoft, I'm told... but I am talking to people, trying to make it clear that a new moderator is needed.

I've never been able to understand Ubi policy on forum mods, some forums have a multitude of them, 10 in one particular case, others have either inactive ones or non at all.
It's time Ubi had a rational policy on moderators, I've already told them my opinion on who should take over here, no doubt others have done the same.
I really wish Ubi could speed up their reaction times on things though, their present system is way too slow.

You have to consider that in the past Chessmaster forums never had any moderators. There wasn't really any need for them until that lunatic from Cyprus started to spam the 10th edition forum. Thats how we were chosen for moderators - to clean up the mess. Remember that first there was no moderators here in this forum either, until the same guy started to spam again. So if it weren't for him there wouldn't be any moderators in Chessmaster forums at all.

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Originally posted by BTOG46:
I've never been able to understand Ubi policy on forum mods, some forums have a multitude of them, 10 in one particular case, others have either inactive ones or non at all.
It's time Ubi had a rational policy on moderators, I've already told them my opinion on who should take over here, no doubt others have done the same.
I really wish Ubi could speed up their reaction times on things though, their present system is way too slow.

I can understand... but didn't you mention something in another post about corporate bureaucracy?

Things are moving, even though it is a bit slow...

@ ebutaljib

That's why I said I can't understand Ubi policy, they do that all the time, the Americas Army forums had no moderators till the spammers moved in, I told one of the mods I have on msn, his reaction was "Holy S**t", he must have passed the message upwards because the next day it had a moderator.
Ubi seem to wait till they're forced to appoint a mod before they do, and it keeps on happening.
It's not as if mods were paid employees, a mod costs them nothing, all they need is a suitable member they can ask to volunteer, and as you well know, a mod is more than just a forum policeman, they also help the forums and and members in the way you did before you resigned.
If all forums had a resident moderator, they'd be less likely to spam attacks in the first place, there's a limit to how many forums the Forum Managers can keep an eye on at once, but Ubi seem to expect them to police forums rather than simply let one of the forum members do it.
As for this forum, I feel you shouldn't have let the way "certain members" attacked you make you resign, you were doing a good job, and their personal attacks were out of order, anyone with any sense of decency would air their grievances in a PM and not on the forum.
@ KHollister
Yes, the way Ubi works makes for slow decisions, but a rational policy on forum moderation has been needed for years, once they have one, any new game forums would have a mod assigned as soon as the forum opens, even if it's only temporary till one of the forum members is asked to be a mod.