Fencer - Thanks for the explanation - and i can only imagine the frustration of such an event from your point of view - thanks for being so quick with improving the site's ability to detect such a horrific event should it happen again in the future - i suppose its only through time and experience that problems such as these are discovered - but its good to see that you are on top of fixing these things as they present themselves. Thanks again!

Fencer: Thats good, at least i did not imagine it

OH, and who do i talk to about spending the night at WORK and ACTUALLY having to do some rather than play games

MadMonkey: The blog will fill you in. Soon.

hmmmm someone fill me in, the site is back working, yet it had been down 6 hours when i last tried to get on

When did it come back ?
What about the games that have timed out ? (not mine, but someone mentioned them on BrainKing Google Discussion Board)
No mention of the clock being stopped, in fact no mention on anything

MadMonkey: I added an additional board to a fellowship but wasn't able to add a link to it on the other boards other than in an actual post or put a descriptive message on it. It would be helpful to be able to do that.

rod03801: Yep, thought of that, just thought it could be set to do it automatically like all the other options

MadMonkey: Well, wouldn't the compromise be manually adding the little boss as a moderator of the board? Nothing is stopping you from doing that.

Nirvana: I did ask about that, well similar.

That Little Bosses could be able to edit / delete posts on a DB, but he said no

So i asked if Little Bosses could be added automatically as mods of Fellowship boards (as Big Bosses are), but no as well

Maybe we can think of a compromise

Fencer: The addition of Little Boss is a good idea. Thank you for that. I was able to add a board onto a fellowship but not edit it thus only doing an unfinished job, and it would have been useful to be able to do that. Would it be possible for a little Boss to be able to do that, please?

code red code red code red

Andersp: Having a break from it presents keep going down the hole

MadMonkey: That's great! cuz ever since he was a lil baby dragon,he's just loved Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ElFyYVsjBY

Jim Dandy: bless him

Eriisa: He(or she,my eyes aren't that good)is wearing a Santa hat!

Jim Dandy: LOL, I actually switched to the castle view to look!

My eyes aren't great,but I swear our Dragon is wearing a Santa hat

I know it nothing to do with BrainKing, but lets have a little fun and help Santa out on Xmas day

Well, who wants to Help Santa out ???

Come on everyone play Xmas Corner

,Merry xmas an a very prosperous new year 2 u all..

Jim Dandy: Go for it.

Fencer: Good question,other than a simple cute and paste,I'm pretty computer illiterate.

CODEREDCODEREDCODERED!!!!

Jim Dandy: Yes, great idea. And who will make this animated picture?

Jim Dandy:

Jim Dandy:


Great Idea  

I wonder if we could replace the dragon with santa and his raindeer for a few days,or maybe just slip a santa hat on him

alanback: well coan.net already mentioned it .. but a bit cryptic as he said he had his weekend set to tuesday :)

i always switch my weekend to the days most profitable before i leave on a vacation (this vacation sat. and sun. are the best days for me as i leave early sunday morning and come back on sunday

i always let automatic vacation take care of the first few days of my absence (as my opponent might not have moved .. and that way i save some vacation days :))

Hrqls & alanback: Yes, i never thought of it

I should come here more often

Hrqls:  Excellent idea about the weekend.  

Fencer: it is in my favourite boards now .. dont know what went wrong yesterday .. maybe it was my cache (although i never had that problem with firefox) ... it kept giving me the link 'add this board to your favourites' and didnt switch to 'remove this board from your favourites' .. the board didnt show up in my list of favourites either

ah well .. maybe i should have done a manual refresh .. i dont think i tried that :)

its working now .. thats the good thing! :)

MadMonkey: you could set your weekend to tuesday and wednesday .. that way christmas andthe 1st of january would be covered

personally i think 35 vacation days per year are more than enough .. i even am not in favor of people buying extra vacation days .. although its a good income for brainking it also favors the rich people which unbalances the world enough already :)

it would be a good habit to set christmas as a vacation day at the start of the year already

maybe its a good idea to turn of automatic vacation days .. that way you wont use a whole vacation day to prevent 1 single game from timing out and you might have more days spare at the end of the year which can be used to prevent more games from timing out

as everyone said we had 30 vacation days per year, then christmas became an ordinary day and we got 5 extra vacation days per year .. so in fact we got 3 more days per year (i think)

if we go with fixed holidays again then i want 1 for my birthday as well and for queensday .. as i cant play on those days either :)

AbigailII: Its funny... i think most people seem to play more from work than from home, so a holiday off from work is not a good thing for so many people!

AbigailII:  I'm in favor of giving you all the vacation days you want, if that will put you in a more generous mood ;-)

Puckish: I do get off with Christmas, and I don't have to go to work. Which means, I can play. I don't play from the office - perhaps Fencer should give me 225 extra vacation days.

nodnarbo: LOL, yeah, I can't disagree with you. Now that you mention it, I think it would make more sense too. Never really thought about it before.

rod03801: um...yea...well...I was kinda afraid of that cause this isn't the first time something like this has happened...I still think they should still be on the left side though

nodnarbo: Do you mean the boxes on the main message list, to put a tick mark in, to delete or save or whatever? Because mine have always been over on the right hand side of it.

So, I went to my message box today, and the boxes to select messages are now after the message instead of before. has anyone else noticed this, because I find it annoying that it's suddenly moved...

or2ak.com: ok,mark me down with the group who feel the extra 5 days is enough

Jim Dandy:

(or2ak.com: Let me get this straight.You are saying we as players should not recieve an extra perk based on the principal of equality?
Isn't that cutting off your ear to spite your nose?)

Fencer already gave us 5 extra vacation days...  That was the perk 

Puckish: Hanukkah was a poor example,the only people who consider it a big event are non-Jews.I think people feel since it falls near Christmas it must be of parallel importance,it's not.

Puckish:

(or2ak.com: Im pretty sure that even if you dont celebrate
Christmas, it is still a holiday for you, and most people have it as a
day off from work?)

I dont celebrate and no, I dont get the day off.

All I'm saying is I agree with Fencer and others that we have enough vacation days. Use them wisely throuout the year 

rod03801: Yes,the extra 5 days should cover everyones personal faith days.

Jim Dandy: But as has been mentioned, when Fencer ended site holidays, he added 5 vacation days to the standard amount that rooks receive. Seems fair enough to me. We really are given plenty of vacation, in my eyes.

or2ak.com: Im pretty sure that even if you dont celebrate Christmas, it is still a holiday for you, and most people have it as a day off from work?

I am certain that Hanukkah is not a holiday for most people where they get the time off from work etc...

Rose: Maybe because Channukah is a minor holiday in the Jewish calander.Now if you mentioned Yom Kippur.......

or2ak.com: Let me get this straight.You are saying we as players should not recieve an extra perk based on the principal of equality?
Isn't that cutting off your ear to spite your nose?

Rose:

I agree, should be no holiday time off except for using vacation days.
Not everyone celebrates christmas and no extra time should be added.

I am not quite sure how the vacation system works....

Question, if I use a few of my own personal holidays and mark them as vacation days with what I have been allotted with my membership, does the amount of my vacation days left to use get cut by the same amount of days?

I think thats how it works, so Mad Monkey et.al. can take a few of their vacation days at the beginning of the year and mark their holidays, like Christmas time, as vacations, and then even if they use the auto vacation option, they will never run below enough to cover the ones they already have set.... if I understand how it works correctly?

There are (except for New Year's Eve) no site vacation days anymore. Therefore Fencer bestowed each membership 5 extra vacation days.

MadMonkey: We got extra vacation days/year to compensate for the fact that there's to block out period for holidays. Considering this is an international site, time outs would hardly happen if for every holiday somewhere time control is disabled for that day.

Of course, Christmas is only a "problem" for people who 1) don't have holidays left, 2) play games with a time control of 24hours/move or less, 3) aren't taking the time to move on Christmas, and 4) actually have to move that day. Considering that a combination of 1) and 2) is bad anytime, not only at Christmas, I'd say that it's just bad planning, and rules shouldn't be reinstated because of that.