No, I am not, it cannot be worse :-D

Who said there will be some "all boards arch moderator"? Nothing like that is planned for the big bang date.
Antje: Yes. Yes. No. :-)

It's not impossible.

It should be.

It is a normal behaviour of overloaded servers.
Do you want an absolutely reliable 24/7 service? Give us, for example, 30,000 EUR and you will have it :-) High-performance hardware costs some money, as well as their maintenance.

Nothing unusual is happening to the site at the moment.

The date of big bang is 5th June 2004.

I've commented this ridiculous issue many times and I'm not going to do it again.

bumble: Here ya go.
I wonder how you managed to insert vacation days with 0000 year ... ;-)

I don't know what is wrong. It is under an investigation. Like many other things.

Your credit limit is 1000 Brains. How you use them is up to you :-D

Bernice's question brings up another topic, related to a security and privacy. The point is that your private data are mostly vulnerable not here on our servers but on the way from your computer to us. HTTP is not a secure protocol and it is possible [I don't say it's really happening but technically it is possible] to grab the data somewhere in the middle [proxy server, ISP] and read them.
Of course, there is a solution. Instead of insecure HTTP, a secure protocol [HTTPS] can be used. However, in order to do it in this way, we would need to buy a certificate which costs $199 a year [or more, I am not sure]. And somebody has to pay for it.
My question is - is it really necessary to support a secure protocol here? Would anybody use it? If so, what about to make it available only for users who pay some extra small fee as an addition to their normal membership fee?

Bernice: There is a difference between what I can do and what I really do. Some things are obvious and it's not necessary to say them explicitely. For example, all BrainKing data must be stored somewhere, right? And since the data are stored on our servers and we [Liquid and me] are the administrators, we, of course, have the full access to all data, otherwise we wouldn't be able to fix them in case of problems. This is how all web services work.
But, hey, do you really think that I have so much free time to sneak through the whole database and read your private messages? First, I never do such things in any case, I respect privacy of our users [so does Liquid]. Second, I can name 10 more important things I have to do and I really have no time for anything else. Is that clear enough?

Nothing at this version happens.
What should happen? Delete the whole fellowship? Set "big boss" status to another fellowship member automatically? Mark the fellowship is "inactive" until new Big Boss candidate appears?

A fee for those who want to change profiles without confirmation process? ;-)

Andersp: In BK 2.0, all profile changes [except password change] must be confirmed by an administrator. Approved or rejected.

About doubling cube - I would probably implement it as another "variant" of backgammon.

Not exactly. I've temporarily disabled all his posts. Right now I have no other choice how to deal with permanent troublemakers.

Yes, I know about this bug. The problem is that when I added Backgammon to this site, I was not aware of this rule. And then I was short of time and had to solve more serious problems.
Please confirm if I understand the algorhithm correctly:
1) When dice are rolled, all possible moves with the first die must be checked if a valid second [and third and fourth in case of double] one can be done as well.
2) If no such move is found, dice are auto-swapped and the process repeats.
3) If still no valid move using both dice is found, player is allowed to use only one die as a legal move.
Did I miss something? I must be absolutely sure before implementing it.

No tournaments or any other data will be lost.

Update: I've just finished something. First rounds are started automatically, next rounds are yet to be implemented :-)

ROUGHLY SOON! If you don't want to start new tournaments, I can launch it immediately :-)

Now I can, with BK 2.0 :-)

We have another record from yesterday - more than 1,100,000 hits a day. I am seriously thinking about some banner ads [displayed to non-paying members, of course].

Of course I will let know if it happens. Nothing like that is officially valid until it's announced in Server News.

I have such set up in BK 1.0 as well. And it's only my problem.

Nobody is going to be another admin until I decide it's really necessary. Is that clear enough? End of discussion.

Don't be paranoid Stevie, you are not the only one who asks me questions. There are no other admins on BK, of course.

Brian: There are other possibilities but I cannot reveal them, otherwise cheaters could bypass them much easier :-)

It's already implemented. I can see on each Profile page all IP addresses that had been used with the account and a list of possible "clones".

Point 5) has been already applied several times.

Don't believe that. The same IP doesn't have to mean the same computer. For example, all employees of one company are shown with the same IP address because they share the same proxy server.
It will be much easier when IPv6 is widely adopted and used everywhere.

I've just removed that user from charts. It's not the first case but it can be easily detected and resolved. I am currently working on a new way of automatic handling of such situations.

It will be back soon. Final tests on BK 2.0 are passed. After a new tournament generator is done, it will be launched.

Unfortunatelly I cannot vote :-)

Suffixes after a name are not illegal in general.

This board is not for personal attacks. Anybody who tries to continue in it will be blocked for posting.

Increasing.

Can you see it? 340 online users.

Bernice: No, it is a server-side issue.

It's incredibly fast for me and I connect through Austria [from my work].

And cannot invite yourself to a game ;-)

Bernice: Yes, it is usually caused by a broken database connection. BK 2.0 handles these situations more effectively.
MM: Okay, I can add Monday as a site holiday.

Strange, we always have it as of 1st May, doesn't matter if it's Monday or Saturday [today].

AD: Not yet but I didn't forget about it.

Of course I have methods how to deal with it. But I have to do more things at once. No shouting on me can make the process faster.

Liquid was changing a hard disk.

Not a bad idea.

Personally, I will add new sorting rules, based on something else than a fellowship name.

Internet Explorer.