Doris: Maybe they were not pawns at the time, so their records appeared there and remained

Why are pawns listed in the most active users?
"The most active users
This list displays the players who made the most moves yesterday (13. October 2009). Only the users with Brain Knight or higher membership level can appear here. "
http://brainking.com/en/TopMovers

Snoopy: At least the BKR is keeping it's sanity.

rabbitoid: i sat and watched him log in to one account resign then log into the other to create them
must be one really bored person

Snoopy: Fencer: add an achievement point for the most pointless cheat?

Hrqls: i think he referring to the chess on this page

http://brainking.com/en/Statistics?p=3

Fra Martino: where ?

I unearth cheating in the statistics…

Snoopy: Looks like it doesn't hurt to reboot the machines at least once a year.

Fencer: yeah< I agree with Snoopy..working better than ever! Well done!

Fencer: well im really impressed havnt seen it this fast for couple of years
hope it stays this way

1926: Remove this whiner.

Snoopy: noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! my opponent takes all of nine days to make a move, but timed out this time, and was saved by the bell! aaaaaaarghhhhhh!

rabbitoid: I think I can activate it tomorrow, after everyone has a chance to play their games.

The speed seems fine, today. How long will the no-timeout period last?

same here :(

This site is really messed up today Oh well hope you get it going soon Fencer:))

Fencer: poker tables are screwed up too.

1926: they normally off for 24 hours

please, please, please, restart timeouts

Fencer: especially those black rooks
but hey...take your time.

furbster: Anyway, I've just stopped timeouts, just in case. I know how people can be sensitive to such issues.

Fencer: Cool, not to much of a problem, i'm up to date with my games :o)

furbster: Looks like the servers need a little tuning or whatever. We'll look at it soon.

Czuch: Yes ultimate slowness here, have only just been able to get on, the pages were taking so long to load, i was getting website not responding for ages.

Anyone else observing slowness with this website right now? The rest of my browsing seems fine, just here the pages are slow to load,...is Fencer up to something today????

I'mgetting this when I click on my Message Box also when I tried to report it as a Bug : Any suggestions please?

HTTP ERROR: 500

com/brainking/server/beans/CategoryBean
RequestURI=/en/MessageBox

Caused by:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/brainking/server/beans/CategoryBean
at com.brainking.server.dao.mysql.MySQLMessageDAO.getFolderList(MySQLMessageDAO.java:1852)
at com.brainking.server.dao.mysql.MySQLWrapperDAO.messageBoxWrapper(MySQLWrapperDAO.java:1886)
at com.brainking.server.actions.html.MessageBoxAction.execute(MessageBoxAction.java:62)
at ControllerServlet.processRequest(ControllerServlet.java:746)
at ControllerServlet.doGet(ControllerServlet.java:791)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:487)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:362)
at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:726)
at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:196)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:324)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:505)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:828)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:514)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:211)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:380)
at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:395)
at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:488)
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1926: That just means they have put you on ignore so that you can never converse with them again. Lucky you!!

Hrqls: Interestingly all the old messages in that game have been deleted (including my "good luck") and the message box is now gone.

Mousetrap:

Snoopy: They even try to rejoin the Fellowship they have been kicked out of. Only thing to do is ban them from the Fellowship or just leave them hanging arround and ignore them. I agree with ScarletRose. The iyt ignore feature is the only good thing about iyt

Mousetrap: the other annoying thing ive found is these ppl know they blocked but join stairs your on and start games with you knowing you delete the game and they move up a rung
ive had to leave nearly all the main stairs i was on because of it

Mousetrap: That's the main reason why I asked why they didn't have the ignore feature similar to IYTs.. for the idiots such as that.. and there are several on here that outright abuse the site. They either take on too many games to keep up.. and they power invite and then never play them. I get upset when I watch tourneys that I sign up for and then at last minute they sneak in them.. I usually am having to play against them. It's annoying as all get out..

Mousetrap: It sounds like the same experience I had and sounds like the same individual.....She sent me numerous invites to play and I accepted several of them.....of which she resigned after the first move....She turned around and then sent me more invitations. After consideration that she may have had a problem with her games, I went ahead and accepted....I don't like to hurt anyone's feelings.....needless to say she resigned again in the same manner. Then more invites.....I refused.....I will not accept any of her invites anymore or play in any of the hundreds of tournaments that she has posted on the tournaments page.

Snoopy: It is a nusience. I can still read messages in Fellowships from someone who I have on block. They were not rude or anything just sent me game after game request than resigned after the first move. This person currently has resigned thousands of games. I once sent a message asking why they were sending me game invites then resigning without try. No answer. The only conclusion I came to was that they were either a kid or an idiot and I put them on block. It would be nice if we could not see any messages from them at all.

1926: its not normal behavior ... you could take it up with her personally or put her on your blocked users list .. or just ignore it :)

Hello. I just started a hypergammon game with an opponent I've never met before. I wished her "good luck" in English on my first move. She replied in French "shut up ........" (the third word had probably a typo in it). I said nothing thinking I had probably misunderstood or my opponent was not fluent in French but in the next move the message was "le petit con" ("the stupid jerk"). Is this normal and acceptable behavior here?

if you have someone on your blocked users list
why are they still allowed to send public friends request?

and also once youve refused them could we also have someway to block future requests from them please

coan.net: Correct, although there is no need for a check now as Pawns are removed from Teams automatically, BUT sure, once a Team is signed up, that is how they stay.

Hopefully, if Fencer gets time, while designing BK 3.0 ( 'Manatee' as i have named it, all good projects need a name ) there will be a system for substituting players or even just replacing them BEFORE any games are started. Maybe at the Tournaments waiting to be started stage it could check for Pawns and notify Team Captains or Bosses if any show up. I think also it should check to see that all players are active, say just last 2 weeks and also inform those involved.

Of course the ultimate is to be able to substitute players before any moves by that player have been made

Anyway, who likes 'Manatee'? ....... people think that the manatee is just a big, ugly creature, but actually the manatee is the most harmless and graceful of all the big animals....... i think that should define the next BrainKing

Roberto Silva: I'm pretty sure (well 90% sure) that once a fellowship team is signed up for a team tournament (both Fellowship vs. Fellowship & Site team tournament) - it will run with the player who might drop down to a pawn level before the tournament starts.

(The "check" happens when the team is put into the tournament I believe.)

... again, not 100% sure.

MadMonkey: Just curious, what happens if a team signs up for a tournament, and one of the players' membership expires just before the tournament starts. Does the team get booted out of that tournament?

SL-Mark: Its is a odd point really.

Once a player becomes a Pawn they are removed from the Teams within any Fellowships they are in, but have to be removed from the Fellowship by the Boss (or Little Boss). So in other words they can not join any upcoming Team Tournaments / Challenges.

BUT as i say, if they are already in a Team Tournament / Challenge that has started, they will carry on playing in that.

MadMonkey: Thank you.
Wasn't really thinking about myself. Essentially then, a pawn cannot play in a team tournament. Your caveat understood.

Yes, my membership will be up for renewal at the start of next year. Hopefully Fencer will have another bonus run over Christmas

SL-Mark: NO, a Pawn can not join a Fellowship.

ONly Bishop, Knight or Rook (and those higher of course). If you have joined and your membership runs out, you are still in that Fellowship until you are removed.

Also, if you are in a Team, in a Tournament or Match at that time, you will still carry on playing even though you are a Pawn.

Is it possible for a pawn to join a fellowship? Asking as I believe this is the only way team tournaments can be played, i.e. between fellowships.
In other words, what I am really asking is, can a pawn play in a team tournament?

furbster: I sended request to aissi/pouloaguia
Thanks

aaru: Are you a member of the 'Aventura' fellowship, i believe pauloaguia is going to be creating one soon. you have to sign up for all games :o)

ScarletRose: I think the only fair way would be something that if you put person A on your block list, and both you and A sign up for a tournament, you would be automatically withdrawn. Otherwise, it's too easily abused.

OTOH, I wouldn't mind if tournament creators could have a list of people that are prohibit from signing on. Currently, one can already remove signed up players, but that's an almost impossible task if you have many tournaments.

I'm looking for an opponent for all 128 games (2 single games in all)