Fencer:

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Regarding the third party banner ads which occasionally appear on BrainKing, it seems that the problem of bad advertising partners is more important than it seemed to be. In order to protect the BrainKing users from any possible threats of this kind, I have made the final decision to remove all advertisements which are not under our full control from all BrainKing pages tomorrow, instead of the end of this month. It really makes no sense to keep them, since they bring much more disadvantages than advantages (if any).

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Nice one, Fencer! This will be good for the site, annoying ads (pop up type or something like that) can sometimes scare people away instead of keep them at BK and read the ad.

emmett: Thanks, I missed that one!

Thursday, April 26th was the day that Fencer decided to list former user names on Profile pages. Any changes before that date were not listed.

I have noticed that on a persons profile it shows a link to other names they have had on this site. But it doesnt seem to be there for everyone. Is this something that only tracks name changes since this was implemented or how exactly does this feature work?

AbigailII: Okay, thanks, thats kind of what i thought.

It seems at first glance to tell us something more than it really does. For example, Fencers comment about making this a Danish language site (I now he was only jesting) because at first glance it seems like these statistics show a lot of Danish speaking users. But in reality, if there are only 4 dutch speakers registered ever, and 3 of them have logged on in the past 7 days, then you will get a 75% statistic in your calculations.

So it is likely that a language with many many registered users, English, will have a better chance at a lower percentage than one with only a few registered users, correct?

So if you have 10000 registered English speakers, and 1000 of them have logged on in the past week, you will have a 10% calculation for English, and using the example above, you can have 3 users log on for a 75% calculation, so these stats dont really tell us anything about the most common language or anything that would cause fencer to switch the main language of this site, or anything like that!

Family Man: It says that 9.34% of the registered users that use English as their default language where active in the last 7 days. And 11.64% of the user that use French as their default language, etc.

AbigailII: Could someone please explain to a laymen what exactly these statistics show? Its kind of confusing to me, thanks!

AbigailII: I guess I should learn Danish and make it the main BrainKing language platform.

coan.net: Actually ignore my some-what request below - found a link under "Information" - "Languages".

... I'm still not use to the list being re-organized yet.

AbigailII: Oh, OK. I don't see that page since I use my own .css file. I thought it might have been something by going through the players list page or something.

Fencer: Instead of making new links on the main pages (which I hide by default) - why not put pages like that in Statistics or somewhere that it will (1) be out of the way and (2) be able to find to look at without having to change the type of page a person has.

coan.net: Last 7 days, as is shown by default on the new languages page.

AbigailII: What is your definition of "active" user - played in the last X days? - where X is what? (just out of curiosity)

I couldn't resist making a list of how many active users there are as percentage of the registered users, broken down by language.

         Danish: 77.78%
        Finnish: 53.85%
      Norwegian: 53.33%
      Bulgarian: 37.50%
         German: 19.12%
         Slovak: 17.28%
      Esperanto: 16.67%
        Swedish: 15.03%
         French: 11.64%
          Dutch: 11.04%
          Czech: 10.36%
        Russian:  9.68%
        Italian:  9.66%
        English:  9.34%
        Spanish:  8.19%
       Estonian:  6.73%
     Portuguese:  5.87%
        Chinese:  4.23%
       Romanian:  3.98%
        Turkish:  3.26%
          Total:  8.62%

I see. But an invitation doesn't have to be refused. It only has, at worst, to be ignored.

emmett:
but the fault lies in the system where you can invite me to a tournament and i dont have the right to reply when i want to refuse

Because even if I have you on block, you can still be included in a tournament where the criteria is to invite the top 50 players in a game type. Although you might be blocked, it doesn't mean that you should be excluded from the top 50 of a game type, objectively, that is....

why if someone has you on block they still can invite you to join there tournaments
dosnt make sense to me

Family Man: I agree

nabla: The part of the discussion board system i would lie improved si the smileys. There are so many of them and only a few i use. I would like to have a customizable list of the ones i want so I can have easier access to find the one I want to use.

Fencer: Well, with almost 6000 finished games (the number of Ludo games compensate the number of moves in HBG games) should I've made just 10 moves a game. That's not many (due to time outs of opponents I think).

Fencer: and here you got him all excited! lol

joshi tm: "By the way, if you view the mentioned Statistics page today (the date of this entry), the total values might be not accurate yet because the calculation process can take up to several hours. Everything should be updated and synchronized within a day or two (or a little more)."

Please don't make any conclusions, it's too early for them.

joshi tm 49647 moves made

Whaaaat! Am I really in the top 50 of most moves made at BK?

Thinking about that: How about the statistic of Public Board Posting?

Interesting discussions that I missed while I was on vacation...

As some other people already said, automatic tournaments are a good idea, but they must be rare enough to give them enough credibility, like the team tournaments actually have. The proposition of monthly tournaments + yearly championships + seasonal team tournaments sounds excellent. Not the top of my wish list, but if it is easy to do, definitely a good thing for Brainking.

I am less interested in an improved discussion board system, I would prefer the discussion boards to stay inside Brainking. What about giving the possibility to every member to create unlimited discussion boards in fellowships ? If the problem is of controlling the content, using fellowships sounds like the natural solution.

It is true that the possibility for some people to abuse vacation days in order to slow up their games is definitely unfair, but I propose to see the problem from another point of view. Having people buy vacation days is the easiest possible money for Fencer, and easy money for Fencer is good news for all of us, it means that he can concentrate on making the site better with a lesser need to care about profit. In other words, vacation days abusers pay for a part of our membership fee !

please take the dragon battles and besiege of the castle to the general chat forum

Fencer: If you had ten dragons on the main page, wouldn't it prevent people from entering the castle?? If you had a dragon and St George people might feel more comfortable taking refuge in the castle!!

Vikings: Oops! Now it is correct.

Infidel: Hahahaha. Love it!!!!

Tigger: thats just great :)

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This is a fun tool to use and find out how often people search for
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I think the link in todays blog entry by Fencer is incorrect, it is supposed to take us to a page titled "Big user photos" but it is taking me to the 5 in line settings page instead. Was this the page the link was supposed to take us too? http://brainking.com/en/Statistics?p=5

Hrqls:

ok .. lets get on topic please :)

TarantinoFan:  It's been my experience that blonde women are at their best after midnight.  Level playing field and all that.

taking cover !

Well I've got my little club here but it doesn't seem to help much!

Fencer: LOL, yes, we need a catapault to shoot the fireballs back at it.

TarantinoFan: Nothing. This is just a beginning. One dragon is not enough, we should have at least ten of them. And some people complain that they cannot shoot it down.

Or did I mean horizontal? The one on the bottom of the screen anyway! It's not there but when the dragon hits the side of the screen it is there for a second. Awww It's after midnight and I am blonde and a woman. What more can I say!!!

Fencer: When you are trying to read a really funny blonde joke it is very distracting! I kept losing my place!

TarantinoFan: A vertical scroll bar for a second? Sounds like a real apocalypse.

Silly dragon stretches my screen. Even when I am looking at boards I all of a sudden get a vertical scroll bar on the bottom of my screen for a second. Bit distracting. Back to no fonts I go!






*I left the t out of vertical. Hahahaha.

Fencer: pity.

rabbitoid: Not exactly.

Is that the way you chose to prepare us for the introduction of dungeons and dragons to BK? (wink, wink)

Nice fireball for the Dragon you made Fencer

alanback: good point

emmett: We wont get very good odds at the betting shop for that