Ok my first post in the thread was deleted for whatever reason so it doesnt make as much sense now as it did before....
That said here is what I was trying to say:
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*Here there was a quote taken from the comments section of Madkatz blog, where at the bottom he stated that all of russians were doing this (ghosting), and that if stars want him to stop they're going to have to come to an aggrement with him.* (now this clearly doesnt read as well as the original post I made, since this quote is now gone, sigh).
Quoted the above, seems very aggressively worded, wondering why? 'They have to negotiate with me or I wont stop doing it' is the basic message it portrays. I mean for someone who seemed to be cleaner than clean, its easy to post nice friendly blog posts and get people to like you, but the above sounds damn wrong and maybe its all just been an act?
Maybe I'm being over critical, but it certainly seems the above quote understands that it is ethically wrong, but is attempting to use the 'but everyones doing it, why cant I'? Kind of thing. So you seem to accept it is wrong MadKatz, but maybe your ego, or greed doesnt allow you to do the morally correct thing, instead you seem to think you have a right to continue to do it, and stars should be coming to you. Almost big headed.
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Originally Posted by Maxkatz
~1,5 years ago I had a lot of coaching projects (didn't coached myself, had partners that done it).
At some point one of the players asked us to make lessons for him about the final stage of the tournament, during one, with our regular hourly rate. We made, it went well (final stages usually are the most difficult part and it is very difficult to explain something not during the game).
In one of my advertisements I published, that we now making final stage coaching too. It worked a week or two, then one of my haters (may be this one) started to scream that we cheating, and this called "ghosting".
Discussions opened, I disagreed in the start with the idea that if someone help to somebody else during a tournament it is the same as cheating with cards in offline. As far as I know good players always help their friends in final stages, at least all my Russian friends done so, and a lot of cash and SNG coaches making their lessons during sessions.
But then I received an e-mail from Stars explaining this issue, understood what are the problems in it, and closed the project after ~2 weeks and ~10 sessions, started to give lessons only after the tournament as Stars advised.
I didn't thought that coaching like this is unacceptable at that point, and explanations by my Russian coulegues I never considered as serious, because they always screams that all my projects are bad, including the share buying or selling .
It definitely was a mistake to open this project and of corse big mistake to try to protect it publicly, I been just wrong.
Since then it used always by my haters with a lot of lies as usual (like as I done huge project with hundreds of tournaments, built a system and still doing it).
I mean if you were so aware it is often used by haters against you, and you are such a smart and logical guy, how could you not just come out and state it in the beginning when you start posting here? Instead it seems like you tried to build a really friendly nice guy persona on here so you could then fight off any negative press.
Maybe I'm being cynical, but something is just off.