Yes Duritz,
I guess someone using the ratings to make a killing against the provider would constitute some kind of abuse.
When I resumed punting some 30 months ago, I did so on the back of some handy information on the internet, not least of all, the Ozeform ratings.
As basic as they were, they were a valuable tool to gain an overview of the horse's history to combine with other factors in deciding the best chances in any given race.
The ratings helped to delineate the differences in strengths between races of the same class conducted at different venues on different days of the week.
Over the past few months,a lot of services that were available on the internet have disappeared.
******************** took away their free tips service, I now can't access the Racing Victoria site to check scratchings and rider changes, and Simon Beasley's tips have disappeared.
In this age of technology, one would have thought that the way would always be onward and better, not retrogade and worse as seems to be the case.
Ozeform is kidding itself if it believes the traffic to their site will not diminish significantly as a result of their latest move.
Maybe though, this is by design.