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1) If someone is harrassed in game conversation, private messages or discussion board, can let me know about it. I will look at it (but I must know the exact location of the evidence) and if real harrassment happens there, restrictions will be applied to the offender.
2) However, if such report turns out to be no harrassment at all and it makes me break other people's privacy, the same restrictions will be applied to the reporter instead. For wasting my time with false alarm.
That's all I am willing to do in this subject. When I have time and money to hire reliable people to do this work instead of me, everything can be different. But keep in mind that BrainKing is not a big company with hundreds of full-time employees, we are very limited in our resources and things which mean improvement for the whole site itself, instead of several concrete users, always have higher priority.
I've disabled timeouts until the new timeout system is lauched. The current one is a little, uh, buggy and although it affected only a few players, it would be better to avoid more wrong timeouts in advance.
Heh heh :-) Why does it always happen when we are sleeping?
The image server seems to show a little peculiar behaviour but it's nothing rare and unexpected. A simple restart will fix it, when Liquid is online.
We don't have money for a fail-safe system. We also don't have money to hire people to monitor the site 24 hours a day. However, we offer several ways how to contribute, at least for a new database server. Who really wants to help and not only talk about it, helps. It's not mandatory, of course. But it's an option for everyone.
No, all finished games are figured the same.
Btw, it brings a possible problem with Pro Backgammon (to be implemented soon). Since a game of this type can be won with 3, 2 or 1 point [score points, not BKR], how many points should be given in case of a timeout?