Gouwe gozer: I believe on the tournaments, it would depend on what the creator chose. There is the option when creating tournaments with games with "random" positions, to have everyone have the same set up or not.

Well this is all well and good, but there are systems here at Brainking that should keep Bernice from having to even see it. There has to be a way to get it to work correctly. From experience, I know that it can work correctly. I think if she follows a combination of coan.net's and czuch's advice it might work properly.

Bernice: Hmm. That shouldn't happen. Seems like a strange bug? I don't get messages in games from someone I have on my blocked users list. I believe there used to be a work around where someone could send you game/fellowship/tournament invitations with messages even if they were blocked, but I believe Fencer fixed that one.

Bernice: How are you receiving messages from him/her. In what form, I mean?

Niki: You're welcome, and welcome back.

Niki: Of course if you meant Fellowship discussion boards, you can remove those from the "Favorite Boards" list the same way. However, those discussion boards will still show up in the "Fellowships" list, just below the "favorite boards" list. The only way you can remove those on THAT list, is to leave the fellowship.

Niki: I can't think of any public boards that are not available to Pawns. (Except for Members Only board). However, any board you want to remove from your "Favorite Boards" list, is very easy. Go to the board, and slightly below the description of the board, you will see "remove from favourite boards". Just click that, and it will vanish.

Gammonator: Fencer DID say this, a little further down the board

BrainKing.com (Fencer, 2009-04-03 14:08:06)

Edit: Ooops, he beat me to it

Pedro Martínez: I misunderstood. I thought Bwild was responding to "Gerry".

Sorry!

Bwild: Look for the "Achievements" Tab on your profile.

(V): I agree with you completely. Only Fencer, not Globals, can take care of it. If it were MY decision, and I had the ability to change it, I would have done it last year!

I think the main issue is that a specific person should not be discussed. Hrqls has asked that this stop happening, in the past.

Personally, I think it's acceptable to bring it up as a general issue.

MadMonkey: I'm using Firefox as well, and it works.

MadMonkey: Working fine for me

Snoopy: I was probably editing my post as you were reading it... No, I use Firefox.. So, my guess would be something with copy/paste in Chrome? I don't know about the smiley problem from before. I do remember reading about it here, before, though.

Snoopy: I can't imagine that would have anything to do with Brainking.

I just tried it in The Zoo, and it worked fine.

(I don't use Chrome, I use Firefox)

Charles Martel: Well, a few have had suggestions, but I haven't seen any response from Fencer about it. So, I don't know

Fortunately, it's not a wide-spread problem. (As far as people buying memberships over and over again to get a few years' worth of vacation days in one year)

Please remember that Hrqls has asked that talk of this specific person should not continue. Abuse of the vacation days policy and solutions in general are welcome topics.

Thank you.

"GERRY": Well, I personally don't suggest than anything be done about people who play slowly and take all their allotted time. It is the nature of turn based game sites. I am sure there is not a turn based game site where this issue does not come up. It is the nature of the beast. People who are that bothered by it, should probably only play at Live, real time game sites.

But, beyond that, there are people who have come up with some pretty clever suggestions on ways to help people who are concerned about it, avoid playing those people. I don't recall Fencer ever saying much about these suggestions, so I'm not sure he would do any of them.

AbigailII: Actually, you have no idea what he makes from me . I also frequently buy Brains, occasionally sponsor prize tournaments, occasionally sponsor other players, and in the beginnings of Brainking even donated some money, expecting nothing in return. But none of that is the point. I do all that happily, because I absolutely love this site.

I have actually had conversations about this situation with Fencer, and he has said that he doesn't actually live off membership fees. I am more than happy to see him make as much money as possible from this site. The more profitable it is for him, the longer life it will have. At the same time, one person making dozens of other GOOD Brainking citizens miserable is not a good thing, and probably not worth it, in the long run. Let the guy buy as many memberships as he wants, but there comes a point where he should not be allowed more vacation days. The person many are talking about had at least 105 vacation days last year (maybe even 140! I didn't keep close enough track to know for sure) There comes a point where you have to do the right thing, regardless of the few euros it will not put in your pocket.

There is certainly no harm in those of us that it affects, asking for this is there? The person in question has already abused every other part of Brainking, and hasn't been allowed to get away with it. This is just one more part of his abuse that he should not get away with as well. Why play at a game site if you have no intention of really playing?

In the end, I suppose it doesn't really matter THAT much to ME, but I know it matters a lot to others. I will always be here, and always have plenty of games going, so I hardly notice.

"GERRY": A person who waits until the last minute to make a move is not breaking any rule.

I think one other thing that a lot of people would like to know is, Is there a limit as to how many times a person can do this in a year. Would the extreme situation of a person buying another year's membership every other month be allowed? (Of course one would have to question that person's motives as to being on a turn based game site) Sounds extreme, and crazy, but there are people who have come pretty close to doing that. Very unfair to their opponents. (And everyone else who happens to be in the same tournaments as them)

ScarletRose: Yes

Bernice: If it is someone you now have blocked, old messages you already got from them will appear empty, I believe. May not be it, but it's a thought.

Snoopy: I don't know what you mean. But basically, you need to consider any sort of match as the single entity that matters.

Snoopy: Just the final results of the match affect BKR

Pedro Martínez: Yeah, it must credit the win to whatever color the winner was in the last game of the match?

AbigailII: I think he means that in a 2 game match, isn't it supposed to switch colors in the 2nd game? So if you were black in one game of the match, you would be white in the other game of the match. So he is wondering which color that would be classified as a win for, if one person won both games.

I had originally answered the same way as you, but then I re-read it.

Snoopy: Hmm.. If it is open fast espionage, I have no rating and can see a game of Nothingness' in there.

Hrqls: There are a couple players (or at least one, that many know about) who has had at least 90 (possibly 120!) vacation days in 2008 because of doing this. Not fair at all to the other players in any tournaments they are holding up.

rabbitoid: True, but this also made the News today too.

Nirvana: I take that back. I just tried the link in your post, and I still see the problem. Odd. The ones I checked last night were all like that, and when I checked THOSE just now, they were back to normal.

It seems to have been all fellowships, but I believe it is fixed now. Try again. (It is back to normal for me, anyways)

Snoopy: The answer is still yes. I just checked after you blocked me.

Snoopy: Oh, I read your question incorrectly. You were wondering if YOU block someone if they can see your tournaments. If you would like to test that, block me and send me a PM letting me know, and I will test it out.

Snoopy: I tested it real quick, by blocking you temporarily, and I was still able to see your tournaments.

This board is not for discussing/debating politics. The most off topic ones have been deleted. Stay on topic please.

Tuesday: The number of times that board has been viewed since the beginning of the day, Czech time.

Fencer: Oh. I don't recall seeing any choices, there. (That doesn't mean there wasn't any, lol) I just did what I have always done, entered my log in information when taken to PayPal, and click Pay. I will have to look into it further the next time I use it.

I wonder why it never used to be a problem for me. Thank you for pointing that out.

Charles Martel: I don't know. I don't use it for much. But for a little while now, nothing has been instant when I have used it. I also used it to pay for membership at another website (in USA) and it was a few days before they received the payment as well. (And this was at least a couple months ago). And as I mentioned, I bought brains here a couple months back, and I think it was almost a week before Fencer received it.

I have wondered if it is somehow that I have my account there set up in such a way that causes it to take longer. I have used it for years though, and it seems as though it always used to be INSTANT. (Even when buying brains/memberships here at BK)

I do remember that when I bought another year this weekend (to take advantage of the "red dot") that I got a message here on the site that it produced a bad code from PayPal(or some such words) but that it isn't a problem.

It doesn't bother me so much. As long as it goes through eventually. I just wanted to warn people not to leave their payment until the last moment, if they were taking advantage of the Birthday action.

Mousetrap: Also, I don't know if you use PayPal, but for some reason it seems to take a while for the payment to reach Brainking now. The last time I bought Brains, it took almost a week, I think! I bought another year this past Sunday (and got lucky with the red circle), and it hasn't gone through here yet. So, we know it takes at least 2 days anyways. So, keep that in mind, that it probably won't be "instant". (Of course, it could be different from Europe, and with other payment methods)

Mousetrap: www.brainking.info says it needs to be paid by the end of November.

anastasia: Of course you can have more than one browser. I still have IE on my computer because some sites don't work great with firefox. You can use two browsers at once, so it really doesn't have to affect your surfing habits at all.

the most recent thread is really getting off topic. Let's get back please!

I just noticed that when I get a message telling me that a tournament game has ended, there is no link to the tournament in the message, nor is the tournament chart in the message. I looked back in old messages and they are gone from those messages now as well.

Czuch: Well that post in the blog assumed you read the previous entries. There was one about how anyone could quickly and easily earn at least 20 brains.

Mousetrap: I believe the store temporarily closed down.

I bought a brainking baseball cap a few years ago. I wear it all the time!

Hmm.. when I go to Brainking.info directly, I can see the article. It's when I click on "More" in the preview of the article here, that i don't see any article. I wonder why.

Are others able to see the latest blog entry at brainking.info? When I go there, I just have the titile of the article at the top, and the rest of the page (where the article would normally be) is blank. (The normal stuff is on the right hand side)

Also, never there before, at the top is a box to enter a password. I logged in to the site, and still see no article.

Just wondering if it's just me. And if it IS just me, what can I do to see the article?

LionsLair: But, when he moved, he may have still been a rook. I know his membership just ended in the last few days. The system would not let him bid if he was a pawn at the time of his bid.