[smerriman]

Every so often, a poor new poster arrives at the forum hoping to get a bug fixed, only to have their hopes dashed.

Most of the stickied threads are years old and full of incorrect information, such as that GIB is being worked on, and all bug reports are being looked at.

With BBO's new terms and conditions, it's pretty clear that any attempts at reverse engineering any of GIB's thought processes is now out, so I won't be doing that anymore, which was the only real interesting part left in this forum.

Is it time to close this forum?

At the very least, the stickied threads should be removed, and replaced with some information about what this forum should be used for.

[helene_t]

Also, it would be good to remove the "send robot report" feature as those reports (as I understand it?) don't get read.

Once upon a time, Fred would sometimes post requests for reproductions of a particular bug. Probably this is the best way of using the forum: BBO developers ask for help on specific issues they are working on.

[johnu]

Maybe just change the name of the forum to something like

GIB Venting Forum - This forum is not read or acted on by BBO

[pilowsky]

Complaining about GIB responses is a significant part of the enjoyment of playing BBO tournaments.