Gordon Shumway: fair point, can ya pm then lol

Oceans Apart: If your opponent would be cheating in that way, you'll certainly notice it
I am sure Fencer could go ahead an reverse games in which people would have used it - but that would be a lot of work to do, so it might be better to not frankly tell it on BK board.

coan.net: hey thats ok, just wasnt sure, if i was genuinly terrible at the game, or my opponent is/was cheating lol

Oceans Apart: Lets wait until Fencer has a chance to fix it. Most people are OK with it, and will only test it with unrated games and such - but there are a few on this site who will do anything to gain rating points - which some would call cheating, but they would probable say something like "Well the system allowed me to do it so it must be OK" or something like that. So sometimes it takes Fencer a little bit to find the problem and fix it.

Can this be shared at all 

Gordon Shumway: indeed very odd. I've never seen anything like this before.

HoityToity: No, she is not. She discovered some really severe misbehavior, I just tried it out myself (in an uncounted game).

Kunoichi_Power: Well I hope you are not referring to our game of Mancala, which you recon you outplayed me but I won. You should read the rules before you shout 'bug' or 'cheat'. I would explain to you in PM but you did not give me time to respond to your accusations before placing me on Block.

Kunoichi_Power: well, when it gets fixed tell us what it was, that sounds interesting

It's something that someone can exploit to instantly win a certain game, so I don't think I'll be posting it publically in the bug reports thing.

Kunoichi_Power: Are you certain it is a bug and not a different rule brainking uses compared to one you may know elsewhere.
It would be a shock if there was any serious bug in any game here at present(maybe a small one not fixed yet), they have all been tested thoroughly.
What type of game is it in ?

Kunoichi_Power: There is a bug tracker:
http://brainking.com/en/BugTracker


if it's something real bad, you might send a PM to Fencer

bug tracker http://brainking.com/en/BugTracker

I found a game error. It's pretty bad, not even sure I should share in public. Who do I report it to?

AbigailII: That's about to come

AbigailII: I keep escaping though.

alanback: Considering the ration of smileys vs words some people use, yes, I do ignore people in real live who would act the same as they do here with smileys.

In fact, if people acted the same way outside of the web as they do here, half of them would be locked up.

AbigailII:  I'm interested to know whether you adopt the same approach to your interactions with people off the web -- do you ignore body language, facial expression, tone of voice, etc.?  I believe smileys are intended to substitute for those nonverbal cues that convey so much of our meaning (as much as 90%, according to some authorities).  I'm sure most people would agree that a great deal of information can be conveyed by a wink! 

AbigailII: But I smileys, especially when people are creative with them Guess it's a matter of personal choice

pauloaguia: Yes, and? It's my choice, isn't it? If people are currently answering post with a silly blinking smiley (or worse, answering with a dozen of them), do you really think I'm going to spend a millisecond in trying to figure out what they mean?

If one can't be bothered to use words in a post, I can't be bothered to read them.

AbigailII: About your last option: sometimes Fencer (and others) answers requests with just a smile, you may miss important information if you hide those posts...

I've a suggestion for smiley settings. Currently, the options are either smileys or numbers. My proposal is a three state switch: smileys, numbers, and no smileys. The latter would neither show smileys, nor numbers.

Oh, and a setting "ignore posts with more smileys than words" would be great as well.

pauloaguia: I always check my games before I send it as I posted in my message. I am on webtv so at first I thought it was maybe something with that... but since it happened about 5 times I got to wondering why? I don't have the games, becauseI played them. When I get another one I will report it there.
Thanks. You too Maxxina.

Pbarb2: Post a bug in the bug tracker with links to specific games and move numbers. Then Fencer may take a closer look.

Do you usually click on it before the page is completely loaded? And do you usually check the page before submiting the move to make sure that it was played where you intended it to? Sometimes, elements in the page may shift position while the page is being loaded, and you can click on one place that suddenly becomes some place else, and you end up making a move you didn't intend to. That's why you should always check the move before actually submiting.
Not sure if this is your case, but it's a frequent situation forsome users...

Pbarb : Put here some id of games where it is . It will help fencer a lot

I have been playing the dice games. I am getting 0's where I don't place them. They are coming right in the beginning of my games. No reason not to fill a space. I look at each game before I send it. Is anyone having this problem? This has just happened in the last
few weeks. I know that I place 0's when no other move can be made...but this is not that type of move. I just had this happen on my 5th game.
Thanks.. if anyone can help me in this.

ive just noticed on the gameaddicts ludo team the captain has entered a player who is now a pawn
will this player still be allowed to play or should i get him to withdraw the team and put someone else in?

gogul: ok lets finish this .. discussions about game rules (or other important issues) should be on the appropriate board, when the poster thinks it doesnt get any attention within a certain amount of time he might post it on here, but the mods will redirect the discussion following from it to the appropriate board again

of course it is (maybe this is a bit too ask from some people though ;)) intended that the posters think thoroughly if a message is important enough before posting it here ;)

lets continue as it was before the messages about the turkish checkers rules, as that was clearly spam on all boards

alanback: rofl....would like to be

alanback: exacly

Hey Ajtgirl ----> General Chat (☼ajtgirl☼, 2006-05-17 04:59:09)

Eriisa: oups. I ment the interest groups

Eriisa:  Perhaps "passionately opinionated"

passionated = passionate?

Gabriel Almeida: Yes, and with the time the passionated players will own these boards ;)

AbigailII: I agree with you. Games boards are empty, they doesn't work. Evn when we post there something, we never have replys from noone. It seems that they aren't seen for those game players. I do agree, there cold be less boards. These one could join all games boards.

Eriisa: That page is amazing!
€1 = sfr.1.66 = $1.38

go to this link

http://brainking.com/en/PaidMembership?p=2

Its found on the top of the Paid membership page.

How do you find out how much a membership costs in dollars?? (usa)

coan.net: Redfrog.. Thank you guys for your help.
I saw that once and forgot where it was..
I just have 6 showing now. That is so much better.

Pbarb2: On the main settings page - under "other parameters"

Other parameters
Refresh period of main page and game pages:
Number of my best BKR shown on the main page:
Number of games shown on the main page:

you can select it there.....

Number of my best BKR shown on the main page: NONE

That will take it off both your main page, and fellowship pages. There is no separate setting for each.

How do I get the Best Rating and best BKR turned off my front board? I have so many games and I have to scroll so far to get to my games and ponds.
I looked on settings and didn't see it. Unless it was there and I missed it.
Thank You

Eriisa: One post? Why do you think it will be restricted to one post? Do you think the proposed rule change for Turkish checkers was the very first time a rule change was suggested? And that it never happens again? Furthermore, your suggestion was to, and I quote you:

if there is a hot topic running on the board, that a general notice could be posted on here so that non-readers of a category board could know about it.

That to me doesn't suggest ONE post. It suggest that anytime someone thinks there's a "hot topic" running on a board, it's fine to post messages pointing to the topic on other boards.

And yes, a game is a feature. What do you imply with that? That all the postings on the dozens of boards dealing with the various games should be made here? Including the posts of the board you no longer wish to read (the Ludo board)? And I guess the "Feature requests" board is redundant as well.

Why not just cancel all the other boards, and just post everything here? It's all happening on "brainking.com" anyway....

AbigailII: I am not saying Spam the boards! This is the BrainKing board to discuss its structure, features and future.

Is not a game a feature? I don't have time to read every board on the site so all I was saying is an announcement here that a discussion about the rules on a game on another board is not totally out of line.

Now a 2 week discussion about whether a ONE POST announcement should be allowed is becoming just a bit over the top. So I will not say anymore about it.

Eriisa: Eh, no, that doesn't make sense at all. Then all the boards would be cluttered with message "Hot topic on board XXX!".

If you want to know about threads on the Ludo board, you should read it (or view the RSS view). I'm not interested in many boards, but I am interested in this board. However, if this board would be cluttered with messages about hot topics on other boards, then I would no longer read this board. And then when there's a hot topic on this board, you would have to post it on the other boards so I can learn about them....

Hrqls: That's like I love playing Ludo but I never go to the Ludo Board (anymore, that is). So it would make sense to me, that if there is a hot topic running on the board, that a general notice could be posted on here so that non-readers of a category board could know about it.

In the Turkish Checkers situation, I assumed that would happen. So in that case, Hrqls re-directing the conversation to the Turkish Board is an expected move.

*crawling back under my rock*

Hrqls: LOL. I'm horrified by the imagination to once simply say "lol" in a real life conversation. It never happened till today, buhh

I'm not sure which is a bigger waste of time.
1) trying to debate revision of game rules
2) complaining that someone did
lol.......