Matarilevich: why do u think that

I think there is some problem with the page of "waiting games"

tonyh:
U want some FAST games?
Invite me to something. I'm here most the day LOL

tonyh: When a game is set up, the player can decide the time for each move I.E 1 hour, 3 days etc etc.

Is it just me - or are players taking longer over their moves. Does Fencer have any stats on the speed of play?

Solo:
he was kidding
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its a joke son,as foghorn leghorn used to say.
we should take life seriously,but not take ourselves too seriously.
being able to laugh at ourselves is a noble trait.
besides,I truly believe that the day we cant laugh at life & roll with the punchers,then it has truly defeated us.

<>Solo> I am the big bad one who takes all the time to think about the next move when she is behind... And that is not in backgammon:)

Right, as moderator, you really HAVE to be able to see all the posts..

Fencer: ah, okay...but when posts are greyed out they're hidden from everyone else?

i'm a mod on a board and i want to hide a particular user from my own view without hiding Her from anyone else's. but i guess i can't do that for the reason You gave? *sigh*...

Solo: what do you consider losing, pip count?

harley: He probably wanted to post in to the Portuguese version of BrainKing.com discussion board.

BrainKing "GLICH"

When I move in backgammon (if I am losing) the opponent moves show up immediately. "If I am winning it takes days for their moves to show up."

Is this glitch only in Backgammon? :)

Andre Faria: Whats this about Andre?

Vitórias em torneios

1 - André Faria - 6
2 - Pedro Martinez - 5
3 - Aissi - 5
4 - Microbic Pine - 4
5 - Paulo Aguia - 2
6 - Taxinha - 2
7 - Ferjo - 1
7 - Bahia - 1
9 - JPS - 1
10 - El Cid - 1

Pontuação ponderada

1 - Pedro Martinez - 3.00
2 - Ferjo - 3.00
2 - Bahia - 3.00
4 - JPS - 2.50
5 - Microbic Pine - 2.17
6 - André Faria - 1.94
7 - Aissi - 1.53
8 - Paulo Aguia - 1.45
9 - Taxinha - 1.00
10 - Mastermind - 1.00
11 - El Cid - 0.87

Pontuação acunulada

1 - André Faria - 33
2 - Aissi - 23
3 - Paulo Aguia - 16
4 - Taxinha - 16
5 - Pedro Martinez - 15
6 - Microbic Pine - 13
7 - El Cid - 13
8 - JPS - 5
9 - Ferjo - 3
9 - Bahia - 3
11 - Mastermind - 2
12 - Nirvana - 0
12 - Paulo Gomes - 0

AtomicGuy: But you can enter a tournament as a pawn. Just go to the Tournaments section and select one.

As a pawn you can enter only one at a time and you cannot create them but you can still have some of the fun ;)

How to start a tournament?

Marfitalu: I clicked on the link again & the game pictures shown up. I gave worrying about certain things anyway LOL

Marfitalu: Try Shift+F5.. I did that and got them to show up!

Those show up fine for me!

Marfitalu: all brokem images for me too. So it isnt you going crazy! lol

Marfitalu: Your Welcome! I can't see the pictures either but I think it is for the explanation to the rules of the game tho..

Marfitalu: I clicked on the game rules & seen the game pictures except for the pond games

AbigailII: Sorry to see you leave & hopefully you'll change your mind..I have posted topics on boards at times w/o thinking which board I was suppose to post on....I did leave for quite awhile due to computer & other players problems & just started playing here again. Sure did miss playing here. All moderators has a job which is tough & surely fair to all. If everyone left due to 1 problem or another, there wouldn't be a so-called "safe" site on the web which everyone gets along w/ each other. Please re-consider & enjoy playing the games. Thanks for reading

WhisperzQ: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.....

WhisperzQ:

As moderator there a number of issues which come up which may or may not belong on a particular board. Sometimes off-topic discussions can be fruitful and I am always willing to read and follow these, even allowing them to remain if they make a positive contribution to the site.

In the case which has recently been discussed here the posts were not on-topic for the board and the ongoing discussion was not contributing to the well-being or edification of 8x8 Chess Variant players. While some posts were clearly expressing individual opinions (to be admired) some were couched in a somewhat devisive idiom ... when this trait began to arise ALL posts on the subject were deleted and a general comment pointing to the stated aims of the board was posted.

Subsequent posts containing personal attacks and veiled threats were deleted immediately.

I stand by the "moderating" which I have done ... I have, I believe, acted in the best interests of the site and not because of any personal biases, and I would hope that all would see that my actions have been impartial and that all have been treated equally regardless of whichever side of the fence they may reside.

I have said to AbigailII personally and now reiterate it publicly ... I would encourage her to stay here and play her games, run her tournaments, and continue to contribute to discussion groups in a positive, constructive and instructive manner. BrainKing is a community of individuals with a wide range of opinions, but in all our actions we need to remember to be a strong community we need to build ourselves up not tear each other down.

Regards ... WhisperzQ

AbigailII: Sorry to see you leave. But what you have to remember, and this applys to all discussion boards and all users - posting "off topic" and there is always a risk that messages will be removed.

In my opinion, a post about a tournament of a chess game is on topic on a chess discussion board. A post about what type of messages should be allowed in certain discussion boards is off topic on a chess board. Again, my opinion.

Anyway, this site is about the games - and it is always sad when someone lets things from message boards or private message mess up their game playing experience - which is what the whole purpose of this site is for. The discussion boards are a "bonus", and sad that some people let things that happen there get to them. I hope when you have time to "cool down" you will see this and continue to play on this site.

harley: Amazing thing to say.

Its not always possible to message first. Ideally yes, thats what most mods would like to do. But in some situations its better to remove the post then message afterwards if its likely to cause a big off-topic discussion. Like this one for example! Abigail has brought a private matter to a board where it isn't really 'on topic'. But there have been so many replies to it in a fairly short time that to delete it all would be wrong, especially when its drifted 'on topic' (if mods should remove a post or ask the author to remove it).
But different mods deal with things in different ways too, and each post is acted on differently depending what it says.

Kipling: Yes, and i think thats the polite way of going about it.

Princess Alison: The oppurtunity to remove the post was given.

Pythagoras: To be honest, i did reply to the moderator saying that they normally just delete them and there reply was " no, that is rude, i always send a private message first, giving them the opportunity in removing it themselves".

Princess Alison: Yep that is the correct way of acting i think, for example how would you feel if your above post here would be deleted without any warning, because it was NOT about Brainking itself, its structure, features and future so it was off-topic.....?

I had a rant the other day about something on a message boar that wasnt applicable, and the moderator sent me a private message asking me to remove it, which i thought was polit enough, they didnt just remove the post.

Pythagoras: I don't see many of them in the 8x8 chess variants board. Maybe it is just better moderated than others :-)
The problem with deleting a post is that some people may take it as meaning "Your post is garbage, let's put it where it belongs", when it should read "Your off-topic post is adding nothing to the thread, the thread will be more readable without it, let's do this favour to the readers".

nabla: Everything would be OK, in my opinion, if the posts haven't been deleted. I have seen 78 trillions of OFF-topic posts that haven't been deleted and some of them were just rants.......

AbigailII: I disagree. I have read your post where you asked for a tournament announcement to be moved from the board "Chess Variants 8x8", and for sure there was nothing rude or inappropriate in it. But think again : there was also nothing inappropriate or rude in the way WhisperzQ answered and deleted the two posts about this subjects.
Given that the description of that board very clearly explained that it was partly dedicated to tournament announcements in 8x8 chess variants, it was your post which was off-topic on that board.
Maybe to care for your touchyness WhisperzQ would have done better by moving it (and his answer) to another board ?
I don't like to mess with other people's affairs, but I find it too unfair to put this kind of pressure on WhisperzQ while he was only doing (correctly in my opinion) a helping job. Would you like all boards unmoderated ?

Rose, Giorgos: She said moderators, that means she didn't mean just Whisperz but also someone else must have "stepped on her bunion". If you asked me what I thought about her leaving, I'd say "I'm not disappointed".

AbigailII: Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.. Meaning if you leave here because one person upset you then you lose out on the rest of the site you love so much..

AbigailII: I hope you didn't resigned all your games yet, so you can re-think your decision!

WhisperzQ is a good moderator and i don't really understand why he did that?!?! I'm completely surprised! You just expressed an opinion, nothing inappropriate or rude or insulting at all and i even agreed with you, but yet our posts were deleted without any clear reason.....
But yet this should no be reason for you to leave this site........Consider it again.......!

AbigailII: I havent experienced that. I think too this is a lot better site than anyother I have been on. Maybe they were just having a bad day. I guess there is nothing you can do about it except do what you just did.

This is a good site. Lots of games, lots of development. I enjoyed playing here. But I can't stand moderators who delete posts they don't agree with. I've resigned all my games and deleted the tournaments I created.

I'll be playing elsewhere.

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