Gabriel Almeida: You can't ask Fencer and the globs for any little unimportant thing

gogul:  Why not?  It never hurts to ask

alanback: I lost the correct form, and anyway I don't know which box to check

Gabriel Almeida: Actually, Fencer did answer it 2 days ago right here ---> BrainKing.com (Fencer, 2007-07-15 20:56:02)

im kinda new and i have a couple questions that i couldnt find answers for on my own.

what are action points?
what are they good for?

tippyc: I'm kinda old and i still don't know what action points are good for

tippyc: Hi tippy! We don't use the action points now. Fencer might in the future but he hasn't said.

Eriisa & emmett: thanks for the prompt response. i guess we will just have to wait and see what they are good for.

tippyc: according to Fencers blog are now dead and buried
shame cause i loved the challenge of them

tippycI believe action points main use was for fencer to test his site under more pressure than it was already getting (people liked to get the most points so would play many more games and make more moves a day) there was also prizes for the top positions ...........shame it has stopped for those that enjoyed it .

might it be nice to have a board dedicated to discussion about game rules of all games on here in general ?

Hrqls: There are, Backgammonboard, Checkerboard, Chessboard ect.

gogul: I feel this is a vicious circle. Next subject?

gogul: ok, i thought so as well. i was looking for a solution for the checkers board not giving any response though :)

Hrqls: Well what are the mods of these boards thinking about then? Peoples who don't play these games
could be interested in reading about the game, not worth going to seach over several boards to find finaly something interesting about it. Switch-overs don't hurt.

I have looked and perhaps the eyes arent working properly LOL, but looking at the list of countries that play on here I cant find CUBA...is it there or do we have any players on here from there:)
and if not does anybody know why?

Bernice:  I think the answer lies in very limited access to computers and, for that matter, to telephones.  According to the link below, there were only around 190,000 internet users in Cuba as of December 2006, most of which were probably commercial users.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/car/cu.htm

What's the purpose of a yellow bulb near the name of a fellowship?

inpassant: The fellowship owner (whoever that might be) can now put a smiley next to a fellowship name. Probable just a BIG BOSS just having fun!

coan.net: ROFL Good One

inpassant: Can you provide me with an example of what you mean? I went to the fellowship pages and couldn't see a yellow dot.

emmett: ◙ The Gammon Cube ◙ - it shows up at * 28 * in the link, but if you follow the link - the * 28 * is converted to

coan.net: Thanks! I see what you mean now

gogul: i like to have things a bit categorized (is that an english word ? ;)) people who are interested in sports but dont play any can go to the sports board to read about it, it doesnt have to posted on this board which is about brainking in general

i admit that gamerules of games on brainking are in a grey area wether they belong more on the game board itself or on the board for the specific game .. after all the posts about turkish checkers on all boards i had to direct it to the appropriate board and hope something like this wont happen again in the future :)

conan.net: That bulb is a good advertisement.
emmett: Yes, I saw that in The Gammon Cube fellowship and I thought it was a new feature of Brainking.

Hrqls: Ya, it is a categorical question to me too. For example: If I want to search for the word extrapolate on BrainKing, I'll soon have the idea to suggest to create a board exclusively for the word extrapolate. That way I wont have to invest a lot of time to find the word. With the possibilities of today (you know, hyperlink and stuff), everyone could choose the order he likes. I personaly would favorize the opption to have boards for each single word, that means a wordboard for the word "word". A thatboard for the word "that". A thatboardboard for the word "thatboard", and so on. Do you think that makes sence? The basics of Internet can put all in each favorized order. ...?

gogul: lol! i would love a lolboard :)
(the dutch word 'lol' means 'fun' :))

i think there might be too many boards already .. personally i am perfectly fine with a board per game type or as it is right now

people who liked the discussion about the rules of turkish checkers though didnt find it on the checkers board so i assumed they might want to have a separate board for discussions about game rules, as i think thats more important than the ordinary chats about the games on those boards, but i guess they dont need it either :)

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.......

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

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*

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....

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: 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....

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

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.

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.....

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.

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

go to this link

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

Its found on the top of the Paid membership page.

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

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.

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

passionated = passionate?

Eriisa:  Perhaps "passionately opinionated"

Eriisa: oups. I ment the interest groups

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

alanback: exacly

alanback: rofl....would like to be

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