Walter Montego: Does your estate get a refund if you expire before the 10 tears expires?

skipinnz: He (grenv) lived there for so long that he almost talks like that instead of like a cultured Kiwi! No wonder he can't understand the BBC.

grenv: HexAgon :-)

MidnightMcMedic: I blush with shame! I have corrected my inexcuable mistake. speling is verry importnt, but nt as impotrant as vocbulry.

Eriisa: I have amended my confusing English! Actually I am never offended if an opponent does not wish me good luck, because in most cases they would prefer all the good luck for themselves! Maybe something like "Have fun" or "Enjoy the match" would be less hypocrital

Pedro Martínez: If she is indeed talking about currenly avtive games, then about the only use I can see for this suggestion is that it would create a watch-list of potential players to add to one'e enemies list, thus avoiding the frustration of playing games against opponents who don't actually know who they are playing against!
(I also get irritated playing against people who mindlessly wish "GL" every time a new games starts in a multi-game match, mostly completely unaware that the new game is actually an extension of the existing match, so all the niceties have already been exchanged, and I suspect that in most cases they are a part of this group.)

Thad: You're not the only one. My clock on BK is consistently 1 hour behind the actual time irrespective of whether we have DST or not!

wellywales: And New Zealand (League in Leeds!)

Czuch Chuckers: Australians are more likely to be getting up early to watch their rugby teams getting thrashed in Britain!

clueless36: ...as long as there was a real dictionary with words which were commonly used in people's vocabulary.

grenv:

Pedro Martínez: I'm always reluctant to correct mistakes in English for non-English speakers, because my Czech/German/Dutch/Greek/Italian or whatever is so much worse than their English!

nobleheart: I originally bought a paying subscription in the hope that my support would help to get these deficiencies corrected. No matter how responsive Fencer is, we should not lose sight of the fact that this is his business and some of us are his paying customers. But this customer, for one, will no longer support this site when his subscription expires unless some of these matters are attended to. Being a customer is entirely a voluntary matter. There are plenty of sites where backgammon is played according to well-established conventions (note that I have been careful not to use the word "official rules" so please no more protracted discussion of that).

Fencer: I MEANT to make it a 10 wins match, and said in my invite message that it was, but I suppose I must have forgotten to check thwe right box. Oh well!! Never mind. We'll try again.

I was playing a 10 wins game of Backgammon. I resigned the first game, expecting that the second game would then start, but unfortunately the entire game disappeared and I lost the match! Could we have a feature which allows resigning an individual game rather than the whole match?

grenv: I agree completely. "Vacation" should means that you can't get to your computer for any number of valid reasons, but being signed up for more games than you can possibly play should NOT be one of them.

Pioneer54: Regretfully it has been under discussion on numerous previous occasions, but to no avail.

Pedro Martínez: I thought he made it quite clear .... A 40 move game could last 5 years.

Pedro Martínez: I think he is - and a valid one!

AbigailII: What a pointless discussion! I regularly attend a REAL bridge club, and I have never seen anybody with a cloak and mask on. We all do just as we like, and nobody cares whether somebody is in the game room or in the bar. But nobody hides!

I'm having a real problem with what "privacy" is being breached if I see you browsing a discussion board.

I have an even bigger problem that you don't even identify your country in your profile. One of the really nice things about this site is that it is international, and it is NICE to know what country you opponent is from. How does THAT interfere with your privacy??????

AbigailII: What an unnecessarily nasty word "peek" is in this context! There are all sorts of reasons why it is nice to know whether somebody is actually playing games, or just browsing bulletin boards. Helps you decide whether to hang around for another move. I've said it before: if you go to a REAL backgammon/chess/bridge club, you don't wear a cloak, Everbody knows whether you are playing games, or reading the notice board in the lobby. Cloak mode is a totally unnecessary cop-out!!

txaggie: You are absolutely right txaggie. Cloak mode is the one feature which makes me wonder whether to renew my subscription. Who on earth needs to hide on such a friendly site? It's a total cop-out.

danoschek: As one of Grenv's parents I take exception to that - unless you were referring to the other one!

Mongoloid: If you go to a real live Backgammon Club, Bridge Club, Chess Club or whatever, you actually waive any right to privacy. People can see what you are wearing, whether you are scowling or smiling, and what game you are playing. or if you are in the lobby browsing the notice board. If you really don't like it, you don't join the club. Why should this Brainking Club be any different? Membership is not compulsory! It is completely voluntary, and I think if people believe that their "privacy" is compromised, there is a VERY simple solution. (By the way, I am wearing a red dressing gown as I write this, so for those sensitive souls out there, PLEASE don't look)

Walter Montego: Is thie "embarrassed" Done!

Chessmaster1000: I used the word "feature" advisedly, since this forum is "feature request" - But I like "flaw" - well said!

I posted this on "Feature Discussions" but since the thrust is here, I'll re-post it:

I think "cloak mode" is a real cop-out. What has anybody got to hide?? If I am ready for bed and my only opponent is browsing discussion boards, I know to switch off amd come back tomorrow. If my opponent is actually playing games (isn't that why we are all here?) - and especially against me - I can stay up a few more minutes and maybe have a few more moves. Can anybody justify why we need "cloak mode"? Who on earth is ashamed of what they are doing on the site. This is the worst feature introduced to BK...

pauloaguia: I'll second that - good suggestion, and I find this frustrating too.

Fencer: Congratulations Fencer! You just made my day!

Fencer: Excellent - it would be nice to be able to select just the game type(s) of interest.

Some idiot has filled up about 8 pages full of invitations. (I think I counted 493 invitations, which is completely ludicrous.) Could we have a feature which limits the number of open invitations to some reasonable number - like say 20 or 30? If players really want to play 400 games, they can always enter another 20 or 30 invitations when teh original ones have been accepted.

plaintiger: Interesting idea - I have only one "enemy" for that very reason, but I'd love to block a couple of others for whom "enemy" is just TOO strong and lover is inappropriate

Fencer: I have been on this bandwagon before, but here is an example:
A Hyperbackgammon Tournament with 4 days per move (I can't IMAGINE why anybody would need to think for 4 days to make a hyper move!) began on 13/02/05. I am playing TWO games against one player, whio has made ONE move in ONE game, and NO moves in the other - although her last signon was 12/03/05. She currently has 326 unfinished games, and in 289 it is her turn.
Now I am not a young man, and I figure on being about 5 years older before these games are completed. What I want to know is, if I don't live for another five years, do I get 3 months autovacation after my funeral before the tournament can proceed? Or do I need to rely on GRENV to alert you to my demise so that the tournament can proceed?

I used to be a teen once. Can I join too?

There was a discussion some time ago - not sure whether it was here, or on "tournaments", so I'll post it on both) about having a tournament option with no vacation days and no automatic vacations. Has there been any progress on making this an option? It would certainly eliminate a lot of the gripes, and those of us who like to play a few fast games would not be frustrated with long tedious boring dull tournaments (especially hyperbackgammn!) which go on for weeks and weeks, when 90% of the games are finished in a couple of days

I occasionally play in the nude and I don't even mind people seeing me like that Anybody who wants to is quite welcome to be a friend or an enemy - doesn't affect me AT ALL!!

Thad: Not even just a tiny bit

EdTrice: I vote for this too!!

It's difficult to explain to people with an irony deficiency

Sort of like the 21st century version of steam radio

cariad:Don't talk rubbish! You'll be saying there's no Santa Claus next!

Walter Montego: Gosh, Walter : Keep this up and you'll have me believing that you're serious

Walter Montego: Walter, I don't intend to start any new fellowships, so feel free to start a couple under my name if you like