grenv: no, i have NOBODY on hidden. But I noticed that all postings from danoschek are suddenly not here ...

I opened brainking.com Main-Page and saw "2 new" standing next to board "Feature requests". I went into the board and saw only one new. Why that? Are there postings hidden or what?

gekrompen hoofd:
(no 'tiny tyrannies' for Mod regime

which blamed me to be "racial slur" and did not cancel an apperently affront sicne about 12 hours (see a posting from 10. Juli 2005, 20:41:08 here)

bwildman: any chance we could get a black heart added to the icon list?

please explain my what is the meaning of the symbol "black heart"?

danoschek:
types of vacancy are no acceptable feature. after we
learned the chech vacancy type lately by watching Jelly ,

this is a fact but things were slowly getting into right order


perhaps now I had to face the german type with timeouts on holidays ?

Please explain me this.

to make the handling of left time trustable again i recommend to print exactly the date and time of every move next to the move.
due to some obscurities i lost the belief in correct handling timeouts here. sorry, I must say that here.

Czuch Chuckers: I am wondering since last weeks why some timeouts were not correctly handled. So I started looking exactly and although the explanation why the timeouts were not correctly handled last week did not came I believe, that the administrator had "forgotten" to remove the two "holidays".
But I know that I will not EXCATLY look at the time, vacation and so on. there are some obscurities.

Hrqls: that is another very strong question. but i am more interested in that WHY are NOW public holidays.

pauloaguia: Of course it is possible that Fencer wants to rest and therefore ... maybe. But as I know (please correct me, if I am wrong) there is no holiday in Czech Republic or Slowakia.
It would be better if publich holidays will be set with reasons.

Jason: therefore i am asking why today (and tomorrow) is a holiday. I found no explanation, excapt that in the USA is holiday today ...

I noticed that today is a holiday. Suppose because in the USA is today such a holiday. In terms of equity it should be possible to give each nationality each own holiday.
Or are there another reasons for the holday today ?

Because there are some obscurities in handling timeouts it would be better when next to the move in the move columns the date/time of doing the move is printed and how long it takes.

reza: I do not know which database Fencer is using for BK, but I am working with several databases (from dBase III+ to Oracle) and I know, that such SUM-operations generate high overhead.

I think it will be possible, but in my opinion the "output" does not justify the "input" in this case.

UzzyLady: I like the idea of a speed rating instead.

You can not have a unique speed rating system because of players and games. Because players you correctly said ... i am from Europe and for playing "live" with e.g. an US-American there is only small time.
Secondly: In some games yoz can play faster, but in some games there is fast playing not so good. E.g. in chess. You are checking the position out, building it up at a real wooden board, thinking, going to bed, looking at position, making move then ... and so on.
Maybe in backgammon or other games you can play faster.

Fencer: yes, filip. please do that. would be interesting in all languages. Privacy and cloak will cause never ending discussions.

plaintiger: it would be very interesting to discuss this problem deeper, but i think this board is the wrong place for that. let us continue this discussion in another board.

Lamby: OK ... but it seems that you are behind the times.

Lamby: why does anyone need to hide on a games site?

all over the world governments are building up and rising supervising systems, looking what people do, collecting data. and they always say: "if you do not have to hide something, you must not worry".
thats always this * argument ... they say it is against terrorism ... but it is against us all.


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BIG BAD WOLF: what about profile pages in more languages?

I am missing the ability to set up theme tournaments, especially for chess. The usage of a specified opening should be decisive.

Fencer: sorry for misunderstanding ...

Fencer: if you use CSS you cannot prevent people from using their own style sheets ... it's easy with mozilla/firefox.
but it would be more W3C-compliant

AbigailII: i know CSS, i am using it too. but i meaned, that in some fields there is fixed <font color=red>blahblub</font>

AbigailII: now, i cannot speak for fencer, but during translation i recognized, that some colors are fixed, e.g. the red color of the amount of unread messages. will be not so easy i think

when a team tournament is running and you have finished all games and your team has finished all games and no change to reach the next round a change to another team is forbidden? that is a little bit hard, isn't it?

Fencer: Really? look at the 3 newest austrian accounts - exactly the same person. no way?

playBunny: look at my posting from 27.05.2005 "textarea a little bit bigger" and Fencers answer to it

Chessmaster1000: of course not only this. another reason was simply: impatience

CryingLoser: now, dear CryingLoser, this was the reason why I upgraded to rook :-)

Every language must have his own mod / global mod system, strictly divorced.
Language 1: Global Mods | Mods
Language 2: Global Mods | Mods
...
Language n: Global Mods | Mods
Note: This includes that posting / reading abilities can changed for a user only within the language's boards.


And it should be clear, that ALL actions of moderators / global moderators should be logged.

NOTE: We are discussing in our german speaking community about the following: If in "our" language global mods are needed, we will set all mods to global mods. That means responsibility together.

In fact I think Filip will change the mod system in some way. This is obviously for me - if we continue in this way global mods from other languages will come into other languages, using babbelfisch to translate and then ... NO, THANKS!

please, can you make the text area for writing/editing messages a little big bigger?

pauloaguia: We are building up the German Boards. Fencer created at first only one general (http://brainking.com/game/Board?bc=79) because we german speaking people want to discuss which boards to make and what for a policy. In my opinion (and we are discussing it) the policies should be more strictly used.

What about a feature that marks messages read/unread? background: i am translating into german (finished - but many messages with suggestions, corrections etc. come in) and it would be helpful to mark some messages unread again (as a simple workflow)
maybe interesting for all - not always you can or want answer immidiately

Caissus: a draw-offer is very useful, a weapon, often used psychologically ... but never perpetually. it is against the game ... maybe not so experienced player or non-chess-players do not understand this ...

fungame: May be a check box "allow draw offers" could be useful for each started game, with default value yes. And perhaps some choice when declining draws could be "decline and ignore further draw offers" or something.

no, a draw offer is often done for checking out what the opponent want ... maybe he will play to win ...
draw offers should be allowed, but not perpetually

Hrqls:

sometimes a draw offer is a gentleman like way to finish a game

i often offer a draw, but never perpetually ... draw offers should be available, but not one move after first offer ...

Perpetual draw offers should be prohibited!

In some games my opponent offers every move a draw. What about a feature which stops an every-move-draw-offer and make it available only after 2 moves after the last offer?

Read the "User Agreement": There is too this: "This is a family site"

Well, maybe the cloak mode seems a little bit to contrast to this ...

rod03801: but the quastion about a "feature complete undercover" is in my opinion on topic here - all right, cloak mode is a feature now, but what about a feature which makes invisible?

JamesHird: I suggest that only people on your own friends list can see you when you are online
that seems to be worth to discuss!

JamesHird: now, we all jnow that we do not only work when we are working. between work we are switching to non-working things - e.g. brainking.com - and it can be helpful to do this in an anonymous way :-)

BIG BAD WOLF: in my opinion the cloak feature is lame, because you are seen online. what about a completely undecover function? in some cases this function can be helpful :-)

Summertop: Hey, seems to be VERY interesting this byzantine chess, however i miss a 3D-Chess as Mr. Spock always played (this is half a joke ;-) )

Hrqls: is it off-topic too that no items are remaining to translate in german? all done ... look at my profile (fencer must activate it, wait a moment) :-)
Now making final beta revision with my army! YEAAAAH!!!!

Hrqls: 2 rules are now to translate, then finito (alpha) - then i will corrct with the suggestiions from my army and then all finished (in some days)

By the way: I am from austria ... when did austria beat The Netherlands :-( ?

But of course ... The Netherlands had victory with an AUSTRIAN trainer - ernst happel :-)

Hrqls: You can have a look at my "army" in my profile ... 4 rules are to translate, then all is done :-)

Hrqls: I am the german translator and my beta testing and reviewing army is marching with messages in my message box ... the ability to make folders or only to mark messages as unread would help