l'm confused now. I thought Ramone is joking with that post. Wasn't he?
It sure didn't look like a joke to me, MonkeyIsland. If it was a joke, then he has a pretty unusual sense of humor.
I'm pretty sure Ramone means he won't accept any more of his future replays while the challenge is still active, since he's already had a little 'sneak peak', ruining the spirit of the no look challenge.
Just to clear some stuff up:
1) I won't repeat the mistake of submitting to an active challenge after downloading its hidden replays. It's not the first time I've had to learn a lesson the hard way.
2) Ramone doesn't even need to take my word on that. Yes, each user has an option "Don't show me in download lists" (which I didn't know about before), but I'm not going to enable it. If I correctly understand the way the board works, then replays that I've downloaded will show forever that I've downloaded them, and enabling "Don't show me in download lists" will cause
every replay I've downloaded to no longer show that I've downloaded it. So anyone can know if I've enabled this, because a replay you know I've downloaded would no longer show that I've downloaded it. So basically, he only has to trust MonkeyIsland.
3) The "downloaded by" info has timestamps. So you can tell if I've downloaded before or after submitting.
4) Yes it would be extra work for Ramone to have to check all that info. But he doesn't actually have to do all that; he can just choose to trust me. I won't know whether he's checking it or not (or for that matter if anybody else is), so I have to assume somebody is checking it, even if nobody is.