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From: "John D'Errico" <woodchips@rochester.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: ML spring 09 contest is bothersome and offensive
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 04:08:01 +0000 (UTC)
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"us " <us@neurol.unizh.ch> wrote in message <gr137d$lts$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> i am well aware that i am not going to make a lot of friends with this post...
> 
> however, i am extremely  annoyed and - offended - by the blueprint of this contest and cannot but utter the utmost disappointment:
> 
> 1) this is a mere (and scientifically as well as conceptually completely useless) beauty contest; apparently due to some hardware not up and running (WHAT! we are talking TMW...); so, why bother...
> 
> 2) the FEX is heavily abused(!) to serve as a (convenient...) vehicle to convey information, which is in NO way asked for and clearly shall be perceived as an impertinent intrusion by the company&#8230;
> 
> i shall  referee all such submissions with this one-star comment:
> 
> this submission is a) NOT suitable for and b) clearly does NOT live up to the goals and expectations of the FEX by which other authors are relentlessly judged by fellow MLers...  
> frankly, submitting stuff related to a (rather insignificant) ML-beauty contest to the FEX is an abuse of this (already heavily) taxed site and should be moved to another place...  
> please remove it...  
> urs
> 
> just my anger...
> us

Yes. TMW refuses to moderate the FEX, virtually
encouraging the spammers to dump their dreck
upon it, both as files and as "ratings". At most
they will send a quiet e-mail to those same
spammers, asking them to improve their behavior.

Worse, they are now encouraging hundreds
of new pieces of useless dreck to clutter it up. 

I'm expecting to follow Duane soon now. It is
their FEX, and they can do as they wish.

What is sad is the FEX could have been a good
repository for code.