Fencer:

LOL

Fencer: Why not we'll try to find any bugs while you sleep LOL

Fencer: No! I am trying to renew my membership and I got this message...


This transaction failed because we were unable to verify this credit card through our card validation process. To proceed with your transaction, please select a different funding method or update the expiration date of this credit card by going to the 'Credit Cards' link in your Profile. Click the "More Funding Options" link to explore your alternative funding options.

Czuch Czuckers: I am afraid this is a PayPal problem which I cannot solve. Are you sure your credit card data are correct?

Fencer: Yes, I just paid recently for a membership for someone else and there was no problems then?

Czuch Czuckers: Then you should contact PayPal helpdesk and ask them for an advice.

Fencer: Thanks!

good night!

<--- Pondering where the secret points could be

furbster: Ditto

I thought BK was not taking PayPAl any more.

mrloupcity: Yes it is now

congrats Playbunny and the rest of the July Actionpoint winners!!!

Groucho: Thank you

congrats to winners of july.

02i: Thank yu very much

I know you are gonna jump on me, but we as paying members,, should have the choice of banner adds or not, so why should we have to do something like see those addys just to get points.. Its wrong if you ask me..

Yeah maybe make none paying members (pawns) do it, but I thought there was meant to be advantages to being a paid member??

Stevie: Why is Fencer having these competitions? What's in it for *him*?

Stevie: I agree, one of the perks of paid membership is not having to see the banner adds, so why should that exclude us from any of the "action"?

playBunny: he gets to test his system....

Czuch Czuckers: you just know we are gonna get beat up for this dont you lol
But its true...

Stevie: I keep the ad's on the bottom of the screen (and to the right now), and they don't bother me at all - if I was forced to see them at the top of the screen, then I would not even play with the action points - but where they are - at least I feel that they don't bother me much at all. (plus reminds me to click on them every once and awhile to help Fencer earn a few more cents)

BIG BAD WOLF: Thats because you are sad hehehehe ;o) :op

BIG BAD WOLF: Thats a good idea.... it doesnt really matter though, since i think I am on here a lot, and play at least 700 moves a week, many weeks much more, and that wont even get me into the top 500 action points!

Czuch Czuckers:  It's his contest so I guess he can set up the rules anyway he wants  ;)  color me stupid, but I couldn't find the ads on my homepage!  duh.  I've since figured out where they are.  Frankly it's like they aren't really there and I do have the option of not participating.  ;)

Cluck: Without knowing what Fencer's aims are, I feel certain that testing the system is not enough reason for having gone to all this trouble and putting up generous prizes.

Stevie Your membership entitles you to many things but there's no reason why it should provide free entry into Fencer's competition. It could but it's not a must. Rather than think of ads as being an insult to your membership rights, see that they are the entry fee to the competition. One which you don't have to pay if you don't want to be in the competition. If Fencer can recoup some of the costs of running these competitions through ad click-throughs that's surely not something you'd begrudge him, is it?

WOW... 12 full days before the end of the month... I picked the winners... I am gloating... LOL

playBunny: What exactly is lost when Fencer gives someone a membership? You had given up paying for memberships, yet you got one for free, what did Fencer lose by giving that to you?

How about viewing personal action points stats for past months?

Just to see what would happen, I turned on the banner ads at the top of the pages. Then BrainKing told me, "Your current settings do not allow you to receive Action Points. Click here to fix it." I clicked there, and it turned off the banner ads on the top of the pages.

kaluza: And turned them on at the bottom.

Fencer: Thanx for the opportunity. I had a great time this month and and loooking forward to lots more.

Stevie: it's his computation his way, no one likes ad's but his way to check things out rumming in full works with ad's. crazy me i'm not into all this point making deal as some of you are but i sure do love the traffic,lol. many more people playing more games and more moves in a day, i'm loving it when i am here. deside wheather you want the points or just plain jane games. the ad's help him and this site.

I noticed that the "role" of Black Queen has finally been filled in :)

As a pawn I cannot disable the banner ads.
Can I nevertheless disable the action points please?

Luke Skywalker: What's the point of disabling action points?

Fencer: privacy

Luke Skywalker: Your real name, real address, credit card number, size of socks, that's the privacy. Action points are just numbers, nothing more.

Fencer: somebody who knows my real name can use the action point statistics (which is stored "forever") to gain insight into how often I play games (instead of doing something else, for example). At least that's more related to privacy than some other options you have implemented.

However, I'm not going to argue this any longer; it's your site and you choose what to do; I hope I've said my opinion clear enough so this is my last post on the topic.

Luke Skywalker: Opinion noted.

I just wanted to let it be known to the site - I support Fencer fully in every option, upgrade, action and so on and so forth - I also want to thank him for responding so quickly to a request i made to have your monthly action point history available on your profile.... awesome - and thank you....

Templar:Me the same.  fencer is doing an extraordinary job with the site.  I appreciate all his effort too.

King Reza: i agree you go to the other sites and people talk so nasty like itsyourturn and nothing is done about it

pattey: I have played on IYT for years and find it to be a very good game site but I do not go on the message boards for the reason you speak of..too much nastiness!

Dolittle: I agree it is a very good game site
i enjoy playing games there

i think this site is better than iyt ...(and im not saying this for the heck of it ) because for some cosmic reason the people here are much more friendly ... i mean where else do you find the site creator offering rewards for free and not just him but many members make tournaments with free prizes and i know few who have gifted memberships to others. i havent seen that anywhere else and i dont know if theres a formula for creating such an atmosphere either but nevertheless you see it here and thats a great infact the greatest achievement of this site in my opinion.

btw, when i say friendly atmosphere , that doesnt just imply giving away prizes ...(that was just a example) but the people here are more friendly , less rude and and it just feels like you can openly state your mind and feel relaxed

02i:That wouldn't exist were  I not a member