Yes, I would be OK with requiring rated bots if it were easy to get new accounts the “rated bot status”. I could have the account Imrscl031 for version 0.3.1 and so on and just abandon the old accounts as you say. But the fact that it takes so long to get a rated account makes this a bit cumbersome.
Urban On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Nick Wedd <mapr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 10 May 2016 at 07:57, Urban Hafner <cont...@urbanhafner.com> wrote: > >> My impression was that you can only get the status of a ranked bot if >> it’s somehow “stable”. So that would mean that I would have to have a new >> account for each new version of the bot, wouldn’t it? Especially with early >> stage bots like mine the jumps in strength can be quite large. But on the >> other hand, it would be nice to have an idea how strong it is on KGS. :) >> > > You are right. > > It ought to be possible to tell the KGS authorities "this is an > experimental bot account. I would like it to be rated. I promise not to > rebuild the bot, if I ever make changes I will abandon the account." But, > as we are seeing, the process of getting Rated bot status can be slow, and > I am reluctant to overload it. > > Nick > -- > Nick Wedd mapr...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > -- Blog: http://bettong.net/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ujh Homepage: http://www.urbanhafner.com/
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