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MadMonkey: Yes that would be a great feature!

MadMonkey: I agree a "Mini Boss" would be nice - currently I know of a few fellowships who have "temp" BIG BOSSes because they are unable to be on for awhile - a Mini Boss would be a great solution for situations like that.

As a side note, if a fellowship has a BIG BOSS which is no longer on the site, I'm pretty sure that if the current members of that fellowship would like to keep it going with a new BIG BOSS, Fencer could make the switch for you. (Then again he might not - this is just a guess.)

I think that each Fellowship should have a Mini Boss. This has been asked for a few times, to have a second in charge that could do all except delete the Fellowship. At least with something like that a Fellowship would still run and members would have things to do

Of course deleting idle & old fellowships can be nice - sometimes it is nice to keep just to see what was there and such.

What I would like to see is if a fellowship has a pawn BIG BOSS, then just "hide" it in the fellowship list.... and include a "show all including hidden fellowship" links to view the old ones.

Since you also have to be careful to make sure all tournament games are complete in a fellowship - and now you also run into a problem if there are current stair games, etc.... So hiding them would be the best option in my opinion.

emmett:I will ask crazy judd to log in and send a message to fencer , he hasnt been on for some time due to work and girlfriends (typical teenager)

emmett: Maybe, once the Big Boss of a Fellowship has become inactive a message could be sent to all Fellowship members (little bit of code for Fencer lol) asking for someone to take over, then if no joy after another month or two delete the Fellowship.

It does seem strange though that there are quite a few members there still with no Stairs or Ponds and only one Tournament that was started ages ago and is in the last game of the final.

If you take the inactive Pawns out of Noodleland, it would be one of the smallest Fellowships LOL.

It would be a shame for it to be deleted though as it has been here for a long time

I have a question about fellowships that are no longer active, like Noodleland.

CrazyJudd is the Big Boss of Noodleland. He has not logged in since May 19th, 2006, almost a year ago.

Fencer won't change that way the six pages of fellowships are organized, so inactive Noodleland gets a prominent first page placement, fifth or sixth down the fellowships list.

Can someone take over a fellowship like Noodleland and change its name, just to keep a good spot on the list and have a lot of ready members? I think its worth doing.

Please fell free to join a new Fellowship called ..... BE SURE

Queer and Proud

Friends and relatives are welcome too! We can always insert something in the title to reflect that if it is a problem.
I am open to suggestions from all within this Fellowship and would like to thank the members for all their support and help and especially for sticking by me as fill in BB untill the original BB comes back.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

We don,t care if you are beautiful, we,ll still have you lol!
Actually we not really good or bad but some of us might be ugly, I,m pretty ugly even for a mouse lol!
This is a fun Fellowship ran by great people(just like me and Cross )
All welcome!

If you are one that tries to gather the Action points this month (or whenever) join us and unite with other point hunters!
Action Points Club

Thanks!

emmett: The image type must be jpg, gif or png and its size cannot exceed 100 kilobytes. If the image size is different to the required one (120x75), it will be automatically resized.

What is the pixel size for icons for fellowships?

Need to Vent ThA VeNtInG RooM

Special-Gammon Nuts!

Also need 2 Grasshopper team players.

If not join Queer and Proud
You will be made welcome!

BIG BAD WOLF: ah he sneaked back in when someone else was running one for awhile and didnt want the same thing happening again

"Snoopy": Yea I know - I meant to add a with my answer but forgot.

But actually I mistyped. If they do apply, you can either accept, deny, or ban - if you do the ban, they can not apply again. (But I don't think you can "ban" anyone without having them apply first.

BIG BAD WOLF: okay thanks i knew that already

"Snoopy": 2 ways I can think of. If they apply, deny them. The other way is to not invite them.

ive removed someone from one of my fellowships
is there away to make sure he can never get back in does anyone know

If you speak portuguese, "Tugas" is the fellowship!!!!!

Hi,. we need players in the Special-Gammon Nuts! club for the games of Grasshopper and Cloning Backgammon. Thanks for joining!

if anyone like checkers and variants, feel free to ask for this f/s.
checkers club

if anyone likes cylinder chess feel free to ask for this f/s.
cylinder chess club

nightmagic: to say more is in control, gl to those in it

NOT a floosie: yes

I don't think inactive fellowships should be automatically deleted. Some of the members may like to go back and re-read them. Maybe just moving them to an inactive area would be better.

BIG BAD WOLF:  I think they should be deleted if they are inactive for a period of time.  They just clutter the fellowship list and make it less likely people will find the fellowship they like simply because there are too many dead one to wade through.  ;)

Geri39: If the page is not in English, find the England flag in the upper right hand corner and click on it. Clicking on different flags will change the language, and possible you got started out on a different language.

Geri39: http://brainking.com/en/PaidMembership

Could Someone Tell Me The Prices Of a 1 Month Membership Here or even a 6 month? They aren't in english.THe Reason I ask is Because I was Banned for 90 Days on gt & Wanted to Join a club here.Thanks

BIG BAD WOLF: That's a good one. That will reduce the amout of f/s in the list with another 33%.

joshi tm: Or as someone said on the other board - maybe do what they do with ratings and just "hide" the inactive fellowships from the fellowship board list.

I'm not sure what the best way for the system to determine what is an inactive fellowship.

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Another idea is some fellowships now are basicly "open" fellowship for anyone who wants to come in - while others are very private invite only for friends type of fellowship. Since private fellowships don't really need to be on the list (since they are not looking for people to request to join), be able to "hide" them also.

... with of course an option to "show all even hidden fellowships" on the list.

BIG BAD WOLF: You're totally right. Some has to be done.

A discussion started on the Feature request board, but I will continue it here.

So what to do with inactive fellowships. I've went through only the first page, and here is what I found:

Noodleland - inactive pawn BIG BOSS - with ongoing tournament. Plenty of members, possibly have Fencer post in the fellowship if anyone wanted to take it over from current BIG BOSS

Survivor - inactive pawn BIG BOSS - with only 3 active members still on the site - no running tournaments, probable safe to REMOVE

Dodo Club - ACTIVE pawn BIG BOSS, but only 2 active people in the fellowship - Probable need to ask pawn if they plan to renew, and if not - remove the fellowship

Club 2000 - inactive pawn BIG BOSS - only 1 active person still on this site, and they are a knight - no active tournaments, fellowship needs REMOVED

Kwyjibo - active pawn BIG BOSS - only 2 pawns in the fellowship - probable need to check with BIG BOSS to see if they are planning on renewing, if not - remove the fellowship

ArnieAddick's UK Reversi - inactive pawn BIG BOSS - no active tournaments, no active members - REMOVE fellowship

Wombats United - inactive pawn BIG BOSS - only 1 users still active rook on site. But has active tournament still, and possible active stairs - see if active user wants fellowship - if not, make sure no stairs games are going and tournament is complete and remove.

PENTE-TENTIARY - inactive pawn BIG BOSS, and only users - REMOVE fellowship

Crissie's Clubhouse - inactive ROOK BIG BOSS - since a rook, don't delete - also has plenty of members - say wait if BIG BOSS comes back, and if not - see if another members wants to take over.

Crazy Pente - inactive BIG BOSS, with few active members - no active tournaments - remove fellowship

Sherlock Humbug - inactive ROOK BIG BOSS - like other, since rook, don't delete - also has other active members - say wait if BIG BOSS comes back, and if not - see if another members wants to take over.

Rocky Horror..... - inactive pawn BIG BOSS with no members - REMOVE fellowship

Angels Among Us - inactive pawn BIG BOSS, with a few active players. See if one of them wants to take over, if not remove the fellowship

Checkers Tournament Room - inactive pawn BIG BOSS, with no members - REMOVE fellowship

Gothic Practice - inactive pawn BIG BOSS, with 3 inactive members - REMOVE fellowship

Banda od informatikov - inactive pawn BIG BOSS, with 1 inactive member - REMOVE fellowship

.... that is my suggestions - and only from the first page of fellowships.

BIG BAD WOLF: I just skimed through them some has the same thing as ustica tnp where there is no link at all , i thought that it was maybe because i still had tournaments running , but i also found the *You cannot leave this fellowship until you finish all following internal tournament games:* on some , and some was just fine .
Noodleland
The Mod Squad

are the first two i have come across

BIG BAD WOLF: Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok ty

I beat you I know what happened - Fencer earlier made a change to the order of finished team tournaments in a fellowship - and somehow this messed up the page load for fellowships that did not have any complete team tournaments to list on their fellowship. Should be an easy fix for Fencer.

Jason: What other fellowships? Does it stop at the Finished tournaments area? If so, my guess some code in a name of one of the tournaments is causing the page to not load completely would be my guess.