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4. March 2021, 18:16:19
ughaibu 
This is nice, Fencer talking about the future of BrainKing.

16. February 2020, 17:28:04
ughaibu 
Subject: Re:
moistfinger:

I see, thanks.

16. February 2020, 16:30:33
ughaibu 
I have an opponent who has been timing out for at least a day, but whose amount of vacation time remains unchanged. Why is this?

4. May 2019, 21:12:39
ughaibu 
Subject: Re: Thematic tournament.
Aganju:

Thanks.

3. May 2019, 15:32:29
ughaibu 
Subject: Thematic tournament.
How do I set up a shogi tournament in which the players each give their opponent a handicap in one of two games?

3. February 2019, 16:07:44
ughaibu 
Subject: Re: Tournament prize.
happyjuggler0: Okay, thanks. If nothing happens, I'll try that.

3. February 2019, 15:15:05
ughaibu 
Subject: Tournament prize.
Yesterday I won a tournament for which the prize was a one year rook-membership: Courage breeds victory! however, I'm still a pawn. Is there some cryptic sequence of hand gestures I'm expected to perform in order to activate the promised membership status?

18. August 2011, 16:16:47
ughaibu 
Thanks.

18. August 2011, 16:11:05
ughaibu 
Is the only way to stop an individual accepting games, from the waiting games page, to put them in blocked users?

24. October 2009, 16:48:10
ughaibu 
Apparently I have 10 days vacation available, but it only lets me set them for this month, which is 5 days.

27. July 2009, 14:41:20
ughaibu 
MadMonkey: It's just this site. I've got to admit, I dont understand how Chrome works. I'll ask my wife to translate it.

27. July 2009, 07:15:30
ughaibu 
Thanks for the suggestions. Do I take it from this that the problem is not about my computer?

27. July 2009, 01:05:32
ughaibu 
The site hasn't been letting me in until I hit the log in button 2-4 times, for about some small number of days. I thought this was because I installed a Skype update before closing the Firefox. But I've now thorown away both Skype and Firefox and after retrieving the Firefox I have the same story. Should I throw my computer through a window or should I tolerate a novel log in feature?

19. March 2007, 08:27:40
ughaibu 
Error Safe came up when I tried to go to the tablut rules page, pretty much as Rabbitoid describes.

19. March 2007, 07:59:38
ughaibu 
Not just Drive Cleaner, there's also Error Safe.

9. April 2005, 05:35:31
ughaibu 
Pogonophora.

9. April 2005, 05:19:54
ughaibu 
Not my problem.

8. April 2005, 07:06:21
ughaibu 
I think in view of recent scandalous events it's time to review the success or otherwise of the global moderators. I assume the global moderator system was instituted as a stop-gap substitute service to provide for when none of the local moderators was online. This sounds reasonable enough but is it really necesary? Without globals a fight or a taboo word might remain unmoderated for a few hours on a public board, no great disaster as far as I can see but if such a situation can be avoided all well and good. However the problem associated with this system of prevention is that it encourages 'complete' and excessive policing. There is a tendency for humans to use/abuse the powers they are entrusted with to the limit with consequent psychological and moral deterioration. On the Gothic Chess board a few days ago there was what's usually termed a heated discussion, both the moderator, Walter Montego, and his supporting moderator, Andromedical, were online. Andromedical was active on the board at this point so there was no call for any interference from a global. (By their inherrent nature globals have less familiarity with the content and style of a board and it's frequent posters than do locals.) Nevertheless a global butted in with a trivial and patronising post as if they were a parent admonishing their kids or a teacher with a class of infants, not only is this uncalled for and irritating, it also undermines the position of the local moderators. Quite naturally Walter Montego resented this intrusion and warned the global, however, instead of apologising and backing off, this global became personally and emotionally involved. The situation quickly escalated and the globals removed Walter as moderator. For a moderator to be removed by a global because of personal reasons is completely unacceptable. After only a few months in this position the globals have developed a self-image as some kind of medievel royalty who trace their ancestors directly back to god and who cant be looked upon by mortal eyes without recompense for the insult. A day ago I asked in the Mod Squad "who removed Walter and why?", I have received no replies. This suggests that the globals think that they are above accounting for their actions and that they have an internal code of silence further isolating and "elevating" them. Recently a moderator was removed from the Poetry board. This moderator was new to the board and unfamiliar with it's content and the style of it's frequent posters, (just as globals are on boards of which they are not also the regular moderator), and this person was moderating intrusively, (just as the global did on the Gothic Chess board), if the globals stand by their decision to remove the moderator from Poetry then, to maintain consistency, the globals involved in the Gothic Chess board scandal should themselves be removed.

6. April 2005, 21:27:51
ughaibu 
Can one change the priority of other people's bugs? If so, is that in itself a bug?

6. April 2005, 14:19:18
ughaibu 
Forget it.

6. April 2005, 14:15:35
ughaibu 
Subject: Fencer
Is bug catagory 3 about game boards or discussion boards?

31. March 2005, 08:19:34
ughaibu 
Thanks. I dont like any of those games so I never explored the page's function.

31. March 2005, 08:07:40
ughaibu 
Subject: Fencer
You mean I can define a default starting position at that page so as to avoid the necessity of setting up the position each time I start one of those games?

30. March 2005, 22:41:11
ughaibu 
Read this page.

30. March 2005, 21:59:25
ughaibu 
Subject: Fencer
What the hell is this godawfull game editing page? It's all very well to ask me to translate this stuff but what the. . . . . . . .

29. March 2005, 09:52:10
ughaibu 
Would somebody be kind enough to explain to me how the "game editors" page functions?

23. March 2005, 16:20:36
ughaibu 
Subject: Furbster
Thanks. Surprising.

23. March 2005, 16:13:57
ughaibu 
Subject: Fencer
How many people have brains and among those how many have a significant number and do people use them?

13. March 2005, 17:43:44
ughaibu 
How about if posts are signed off LSRN? I thought Purple's "TNP" was just friendly solidarity and nothing to panic over.

7. March 2005, 20:17:05
ughaibu 
Other way round.

7. March 2005, 19:48:19
ughaibu 
When anybody makes repressive stuff under the cloak of whatever, there is no way that I can express the position from Aristotle in terms allowed by the moderators. So, just accept that your thinking is thousands of years defunct.

7. March 2005, 06:19:35
ughaibu 
Subject: Czuch
I guess Fencer was just exercising his freedom of speech thingy in the newsbox.

6. March 2005, 15:30:13
ughaibu 
I dont see what's racist about it. Should Bernice's men only and women only ponds be disallowed as sexist? Should beginners tournaments be disallowed as ratingist?

24. February 2005, 19:26:23
ughaibu 
A board game is an interactive social event, computers are incapable of play and under no circumstances should they be playing on a site for humans.

24. February 2005, 18:20:32
ughaibu 
Subject: Sumerian
Sounds fair. How will you ensure the other participants are all aware of this proposal?

24. February 2005, 16:42:36
ughaibu 
And this ties in with Trice's failure to announce Sumerian's computer's presence. . . . . .

24. February 2005, 16:38:10
ughaibu 
Subject: Chessmaster1000
I dont know how many players he's deceived, I took the liberty of assuming your figures were responsibly posted. The rest of my sentence independently stands.

24. February 2005, 16:31:20
ughaibu 
I'm not talking about anyone's opinions but about Sumerian's behaviour and his attempts to justify it.

24. February 2005, 16:15:54
ughaibu 
Subject: Chessmaster1000
The behaviour of Sumerian is unacceptable, the arrogance of assuming the right to deceive "Hundreds" of players to test his computer is a clear betrayal of the trust required by a community such as BrainKing.

24. February 2005, 16:10:36
ughaibu 
Subject: Chessmaster1000
Modified by ughaibu (24. February 2005, 16:11:28)
His purpose doesn't change a thing, his behaviour was in direct contravention of site rules. The lack of understanding is yours if you cant see that.

24. February 2005, 16:05:30
ughaibu 
Subject: Purple
That's fine. This is a community and trust is an important foundation of it's structure.

24. February 2005, 15:57:52
ughaibu 
Subject: Luke Skywalker
It was Trice's responsibility to put the facts in the tournament description but it was Sumerian's responsibility to personally inform all the players who entered the tournament, and had there been any objections from other entrants, Sumerian should have left that tournament.

24. February 2005, 15:49:18
ughaibu 
Subject: Chessmaster1000
If he genuinely stated to his opponents that he wanted their help in testing his program I wouldn't object but that isn't what happened, is it?

24. February 2005, 15:47:29
ughaibu 
He hasn't said it, he wrote it on his profile and it is still a breach of the rules.

24. February 2005, 15:34:23
ughaibu 
Subject: Chessmaster1000
It's a question of abuse of trust, membership of BrainKing implies not using computer assistance.

24. February 2005, 13:42:51
ughaibu 
Subject: Sumerian
Why are you using this site? Test it at a site that allows computer.

24. February 2005, 13:38:19
ughaibu 
Using computers is against the rules. The idea that it's the responsibility of other competitors to check whether or not anyone is admitting to breaking the rules is outrageous. What if a person admits on their profile to entering a tournament under several different names? Is that also okay because it's admitted? I dont see a problem with a computer user openly inviting an opponent to test the machine but the idea that it's the opponent's responsibility is ridiculous. I probably haven't read more than 15 profiles of all the members here and certainly dont want to start doing so. If I want to play with a computer I won't come to a site for humans, that's is obvious and any excuses about what's on a profile is eyewash.

24. February 2005, 11:04:16
ughaibu 
It's nonsense to expect all entrants to tournaments to read the profiles of all the other entrants.

20. February 2005, 21:34:30
ughaibu 
Subject: Sumerian
The "problem" is that your profile isn't compulsory reading. I suggest something like a news page on which statements such as that on your profile can be posted as public declarations.

20. February 2005, 20:31:30
ughaibu 
I'd say almost everything is impossible.

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