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Pbarb2: On the General settings page, in the section "other parameters" you'll see two boxes "Allow other users to send fellowship invitations" and "Allow other users to send tournament invitations" to either have ticked or unticked.
Eriisa: Yes, thats the name spoof. Another year older and another memory block. LOL I am ok..but just wanted others to know so they don't get onto the same thing. Maybe they are smarter than I was.
Pbarb2: Those are called spoof emails. People will send them out to look like PayPal or eBay or your bank.
First rule of thumb... never click any links in an email. Just to to the website on a fresh page and log in.
one hint on Paypal emails, is that it will have your full name in the Dear So&So line. Not your email address, or anything else. BUT I have been getting spoofs with my name lately. I think however, its because I'm an ebay seller and someone got my info off a sale.
Someone has on their profile not to send them fellowship invites. How does he get that off? He said, he did not put that there. He is getting fellowhip invites by some link they are sending him. I have no idea how to do that and would rather send it the regular way...but somehow there is a block there to not send invites to fellowships. Does anyone know what to do? He is also on webtv.
Purple: I have webtv and used PayPal ewver since I had to pay for game memberships. Not to long ago someone sent me a message saying that I had to update. I went in to update and first thing it said was give my credit card number. It was on the offical PayPal sheet so I did it. As I was sending it I caught the date of that page was 2005 not 2007. It was to late to get it back. I then called PayPal and they confirmed it was not anything they sent out. They suggested I get my credit card number canceled and a new one sent. They said they were going to check it out and with the law enforcement and get the people sending these out. So about 2 weeks ago I got the same thing. I sent it to the PayPal and they again said it was not anything they sent out. Someone is trying to get credit card numbers. Please beware of that. I did not try to use PayPal since this happened. So hope when it is time to renew it works. Oops forgot...this page to fill my credit card number was not in the secure part of PayPal. I wrote this so all who use PayPal beware of this happening.
rod03801: One last off-topic post. If I could (use PayPal) don't you think I would? I even went so far as to talk to them on the phone for 20 min. The end result is that everything was fine except for one thing. I needed to confirm by e-mail my password etc and they have a hyper-link I had to use which webtv doesn't recognize. The really strange part is when I renewed my GoldToken membership with my credit card THEY automatically rolled it over and it was billed through my credit card to my non-existant PayPal account. And I have not been smoking. lol
emmett: Sorry about the misunderstanding. I was addressing my comment towards Purple, as he says it can't be used with WebTV. I used WebTV for years until recently, and used PayPal all the time.
Purple: I don't understand why you say paypal can't be used. I think I will hook my webtv back up this afternoon and check it out. I'll buy some brains with it or something. (No comments!, lol)
Purple: Common Purp. Not hard at all to send cash. Isn't there a webtv-f/s? Soon enough we'll know if you can paypal with it. Letters to the Czech Rep. with money in it should be send regristred (strongly recomanded, appart the possibility that sending money by mail to the czechs isn't allowed maybe, that is why he wouldn't offer it as a payment method), otherwise noone should cry if he tells you: no, no letter arrived. They go through many hands, and a thief checking 3000 letters each day will take 30€ with pleasure. Money with its addicions brings the world to an end, as a matter of fact.
Fencer: Here is a plan. Publish the address where you recieve your mail and we can send cash. The amounts are usually too small to warrant theivery or mail theft. There is about $1.75 postage to mail overseas but that's no big deal. If American dollars are no good anymore then the world is coming to an end. :)
Fencer: I'm sorry F. I have only shopped with large "corporate" companies online so far, so my statement was too broad and ill-informed. My passionate response regarding Paypal stemmed from the very, very frustrating experience I had with them. I claimed that I would never pay for a brainking membership again after that experience. Of course, your charisma and my connection with brainking has since turned that decision around.
emmett: "Every other company does"? That's really funny. Have you ever tried to accept credit cards directly? I have been negotiating with several banks regarding this issue and their policy is very disadvantageous for me, compared to PayPal. That's why we don't support it, at least not now.
Purple: There is an option for transferring the money directly to Fencer's account. I never understood exactly why that option says Czech Republic only... International money transfers are a perfectly valid and easy form of payment and I know of many people that prefer them to the hassle of using PayPal (and sometimes it's cheapper too, especially if within the Euro zone )
"Snoopy": Yes - you will continue. As long as a person is there for the start, even if they are a pawn or even no longer with the fellowship or team - they will continue and finish what was started in the team tournament. (At least I'm pretty sure of that.)
Purple: Because Brainking doesn't accept credit cards, but every other company does. That's why I gave Fencer's blog today a vote of negative one. The last time I tried to use paypal, I put in the wrong address by accident, then they made me wait five weeks before they would accept payment, just to confirm through visa that I was who I said I was.
im still involved in Inverleven we have a great chance going thou to next round if this happens even thou im not in that fellowship anymore would i still be playing on there team
It is stated that there are 5 options. As a webtv user I can't find one. PayPal is no good because it wont support webtv hyperlinks, same with Moneybrokers. The BK Representatives are gone, Credit Cards are no good and there is not even an addy to send cash. Fencer..why is is SO hard to give you money? LOL
tippyc: the xx will show the internal variable names instead of the real text
so the first few lines in the main menu on the left will show : Global_GameHeader Global_MainPageLink (28) Global_NewGameLink Global_WaitingGamesLink (2015)
while the 'send' button to send this message shows 'boards_send' and the button to send this edited message shows 'boards_editthispost'
the translators assign the real text to those keycodes .. the site shows the real text of the selected language to the user .. to make it more readable ;)
alanback: I didnt either. As a matter of fact, I switched to ru, and then xx to see what it would do and it went back to English. I agree with pauloaguia this it is most likely only seen by Translators. Just as there are a few things that I can see as a Global that others cannot.
alanback: It's a tool for translator to know the key for the texts they need to translate. You can emulate it by replacing the language part in the page URL (pt, en or whatever language) with xx
basplund: When you click "Key Mode" your default language is set to xx just like when you click on a flag. Since that setting is stored on the server, the next time you login you'll be in KeyMode. The sure way to get out of it is by clicking on a flag, to change your default language again.
Because of that, whenever I need to go to key mode, I simply type in the xx at the address bar, so it doesn't get saved, since in Simple Mode the flags are invisible.
Does anybody else have the same problem? Every time I'm logging into the site it switches to key mode, and I have to change the xx to se or en, or whatever language code. It's also independent of which browser I'm using. I've cleared the cash and all too.
nodnarbo: It might have to do with 3 of the games have under 4 moves - so may not "count" towards the rating - even though you have a rating. So probable just one of the "loop holes" in the coding. Probable will take a few more games before the graph shows up.