Life In 19x19

...there is nothing preventing the admins/mods from acting as if they own the place...

An admin does own the place. His name is Jordus.

Indeed. And Jordus has already expressed his will to give ownership to the community.

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Questions on Jordus's Life in 19x19 site.
1) Is this site ...

Just to reiterate, because there still appears to be some confusion I am not trying to start yet another thread about the same tired arguments about rating systems...

Sorry, but it's hard to believe you when you throw in your own personal opinions from other threads:

KGS has a sophisticated ...

Now, moving on to your hypothetical we are venturing into the part of these discussion I dislike -- Instead of having real data and real results being analyzed, we have a made up situation, with vague "data" being presented, theorized behavior being speculated on and then the rating system ...

One clarification here -- it is incorrect to say that that the KGS rating system has stability as a goal. The rating system has accuracy as a goal. The purpose of the rating system is to do the best job it can of predicting the outcome of a game that has yet to be played between any two given ...