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Old 10-25-2010, 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by ricthemic View Post
For sure I will never forget our IDs again
And that's the point. It happened to me once too; and I won't forget again (I hope).

One problem is, if they were lenient about it, IDs would be forgotten way more often, making accurate judgment calls way more difficult, making turning away the questionably IDless way more difficult and confrontational, making gaming the system-- if not non-Villagers access to free golf-- way easier!

For example...

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Originally Posted by clekr View Post
If you had followed TOTV and the Sun three or four years ago you would have seen the reason for this position by the starters. There was a problem with "ghost golfers". These were people who played two or three times a day. They signed up once with their own ID and then for additional times using neighbor's IDs who did not play golf.
Sometimes it is frustrating when we know we are honest, we feel like we have good proof and we are inconvenienced when we believe "common sense" should have prevail. However, taking a longer term view and considering the longer-term potential pitfalls, maybe common sense did prevail. It looks something like this:

We Goofed leads to Consequence leads to Lesson Learned leads to More careful next time, resulting in better and more consistent enforcement and fairness for all. Not bad. Sometimes I wish real common sense would prevail more often.