Oceans Apart: cheers!!..i'll nip and look

Tulip: Let me know if i got it right lol

Oceans Apart: LMAO!!!i changed the size and the board was sooooooooooooooooooooooo big???
i put it back
2 lines of a backgammon took my whole screen!!!..ill do small,much better

Tulip: LOL, so i got it right then lol

Oceans Apart: yep!!..thanks

Tulip: blimmin heck, that makes a change lol

Do we really need to have ads on the home page advertising the hottest site for college girls?  What's the next step, sex ads?

We used to have the sex ads, but I like the college girls banner better.

alanback: LMBO - I'm such a woman - I didn't even notice

emmett:  Well, I never said they weren't cute

I'm trying to be a goooood boy

alanback: I never see them because of my membership. Do you have your settings set so that you can see the banners?

emmett: If we want action points we have to show the banners.

emmett: well action points= free prizes. Banner ads= money to pay for free prizes. Unfortunately that is the way the world works.

TarantinoFan: Yeah, but almost everybody gets no prize. How many have you won?

emmett: guess!!!

Actually I was given my first bishop from an unknown donor. After that I paid for my 12 months rook. That is the only thing apart from a free game for paying that I have been given.

TarantinoFan: Well, aside from my point of view regarding banner ads for paying users, I do like your responses.

It doesn't matter anyway. Right now I'm getting my ***kicked at chess. That is a little more pressing of an issue for me.

emmett: Hey play chess with me, and u wont get ya a*** kicked then

emmett:  I only see banners before I log in.

It seems that the site has suddenly developed a penchant for trying to fix something that wasn't broken, and this was mentioned before without remedy nor response. For several days, (some) games have shown up on status pages with "move 0" in the move column. For games such as Espionage and Logik that require a preset, it makes sense, otherwise it's patently absurd.

As it stands now, the move numbers are correct in games which you're the second player, but wrong (one short) for games which you're the first player. BK is otherwise running excellently, but this is quite a frustration, particularly when I see "move 1" which leads me to believe a new event has begun, only to find I've already moved once and it's underway. Why was this counterproductive change in move numbers made? (If it was explained earlier, pardon me, I missed it.)

We all know that Brainking is not a charity operation, it has to make a living. So we get banners and other stuff, et least as long as we don't log in as rooks. Fine by me. but  every once in a while I get as on my login page A major pain in the neck called DriveCleaner which invites me to install some stupid thing on my computer or else. Fencer, can you PLEASE get rid of at least this sponsor? This is just one step short of directly installing a voluntary virus on your machine. See, for example, This link.

rabbitoid: I'll check it out.

Just because America changed their times for daylight savings doesn't mean that Australia did! My time zone now says that it is an hour behind the actual time. We are still on DST in New South Wales at least.

Times across Australia

I always have my time set to the Czech Republic for some reason.

TarantinoFan: And what has an American time to do with the BrainKing time?

Not just Drive Cleaner, there's also Error Safe.

rabbitoid: On the other hand, the Login Page does not contain any banner ads or does it?

Fencer: My clock on this site always showed correct until just recently when America went to Daylight savings. My bad for assuming the two were connected without proof.

At the moment my clock is showing 6.18pm (18.18) and the site clock is showing 17.15pm. According to the link I sent in my previous post my clock is correct and the site clock has for some reason set itself back an hour.

TarantinoFan: Our time will be changed on this Sunday.

Fencer: you're right. It's not the login page. my bookmark points to the GameList page, and since I'm not yet logged in to the session, I'm in guest mode, with the login prompt on top. It's there where I have a banner, and sometimes the pest.

This ad takes over the whole browser so I can't log in, maximises the browser to more than the screen size (a nice gimmick) and adds a popup that firefox doesn't catch and that comes back when you first kill it. All in all, not the best publicity for brainking!

rabbitoid: You may be right, but the recommeded URL to bookmark is always the site entry point http://BrainKing.com

Error Safe came up when I tried to go to the tablut rules page, pretty much as Rabbitoid describes.

ughaibu: I have been attacked by both of these at random times during my sessions on this site.

Fencer: I have the GameList page as bookmark, because the Brainking page asks every time for the password (even if it's only one click with password memorized), even if the browser stays open. The GameList bookmark does not.

rabbitoid: Is it? It works for me with no problems. Is it possible that the Linux version of Firefox shows some differences, compared to the Windows one?

Fencer: I don't think so. when, for example, while reading this forum, I click on http://brainking.com , it takes me to the login page, not the GameList page.

rabbitoid: Of course, where else should it take you? The URL with no additional parameters after the site domain always shows the login page.

Fencer: That's why I have as a bookmark GameList, not BrainKing. What do I need the login page for, if I can just as well log in from the guestmode GameList page?

At home I do what I want, I leave a tab permanently on BK. at work (OK, OK, I know) I just take a peek from time to time, then kill the tab. so a bookmark is useful.

rabbitoid: Why do you need the GameList in guest mode? You must click the Login button anyway, no matter if it happens on the GameList or login page.

Fencer: yes, but only once. If the browser stays open, the next click on the GameList bookmark takes you to your page, not the guest page.

Fencer: i always use brainking.com ... it also gave me the bad sites

when i go to brainking.com i arrive at the login page .. no problem yet .. then i enter my username and password and login .. then the bad site will show

(it even showed a site which avg told me to contain a virus (or 3))

it doesnt happen to me the second time i go to brainking.com though

(maybe i am not logged in yet when i click on login .. so the site will show .. the next time when i enter the site via brainking.com it recognizes my cookie and doesnt show the bad sites?)

Fencer: Yeah, that's what I wonder as well. I also have the gamelist page bookmarked. That's the page I most often use. As long as I don't restart the browser, it brings me directly to the page I need. But after a browser restart the same page is in guest mode yet it knows my username and password. (And I have configured my browser to not remember the password for brainking.com).

I agree with rabbitoid, what's the point of bookmarking http://brainking.com when that's most of the time not what you want, and the gamelist page is what you want?

rabbitoid: But if you are logged in, you should see no banner ads at all.

Fencer: it seems to happen to me while logging in
(from the brainking.com page)

Hrqls: Impossible. If you disabled all banner ads at the Settings, BrainKing simply does not generate any ad code for you. It's a server side feature.

Fencer: i havent disabled all banner ads .. as i want to get actions point (although i wont win by far .. its just fun ;))

the ads arent a problem .. but it did gave me a popup screen (or even replaced the brainking page by something else) .. while the ads normally dont do something like that

the main problem though is that it gave me a page with a virus on it .. it popsup and doesnt show brainking

i tried to get it again ... but failed
it showed when i logged in this morning (after being away from work for the weekend)
i cleared all and manually deleted all cookies .. it showed me the english login .. i logged in .. and all was fine

will see if i can find out more next time it happes
(probably this afternoon at home :))

Hrqls: hmm .. just got it again .. but while being logged in
i made a move in a game .. and arrived at the errorsafe page which asked me wether it could scan my computer

will check my system for any adware/spyware and see if it finds anything
(would be weird as this is my computer at work and all i do is work and visit brainking and dailygammon)

Hrqls: Maybe because your using BK during work hours , it is trying to tell u something

Oceans Apart: lol .. nah .. when its during work i have no problem .. it just showed when i was having a legal break :)

Fencer: Not when he's logged in. But the first time he visits the bookmark after opening the browser he isn't logged in and will see the ads. But since this is the case only once or twice a day, he doesn't want to keep an extra bookmark for that.
Anyway, the point is that one sponsor seems to behave really bad, and to even be a potential security issue for BrainKing users, which is somewhat very undesirable.

I posted a bug last November about 'Move and goto next off-line player'.
Its a very useful one to use to get your games down, playing the people who are not here.
Sadly it picks up games of people who are here, but using cloak.
Surely, the idea is not to pick those games up either as they are online.
Now you have closed the bug report saying it is not one, could you please explain to me what it is then
True it does pick games up of people not here, BUT it also picks people up who are here using cloak.
I was one of the people who requested this option and certainly did not expect or want it to do that