Radiant2007 :-): Fencer is trying to stop those ads by using a filter, somehow they must still be sneaking in, it certainly isnt what anyone wants here.

King Reza: Nevertheless, Radiant2007 :-) has a valid point. Ads such as the one she described are inconsistent with the spirit of General Guideline #3. Perhaps you are not offended by the ads since you can turn them off, but that does not make Radiant's position unreasonable. Also note that most users do not have the option to disable ads. The analogy with an ostrich burying its head in the sand is apt.

A year or two ago, Fencer was working hard to make BrainKing into a great gaming site, and making admirable progress. But for several months now there has been noticeably less emphasis on improving the quality of the gaming experience. Instead, Fencer seems to be focusing much more on finding ways to increase revenue, through tasteless ads and other things unrelated to BrainKing's main purpose as a gaming site. He should expect to lose some users.

Has anybody who runs fellowships or members of fellowships, noticed posts disappearing since the new style BK started.

Radiant2007 :-):  Not really.  In many countries they show things like that on TV too.  Those who don't wanna watch, don't turn on their TVs in those hours.  I think Fencer has no control over what ads ar eput on the site.  He needs them to make money.  I, due to my certain religion, don't watch those things, so I have the ads off and I'm not offended that they exist if I turn the adds on.  It would, however, offend me if there was no way to shut them.  

Radiant2007 :-): When you surf the net you kinda need that sandpit otherwise you would be offended by probably more than half the sites you might come across. In the settings page you can display the ad on the bottom of the page only or like King Reza said just turn them off.

The more sensible option would be to talk to your kids before allowing them anywhere near the net and explain that no matter how careful they are they may see things that are not particularly savoury. Being open and honest with your kids and keeping an eye on their surfing habits will still only protect them so much. Those sort of ads are rife and you will never stop them.

King Reza: That would mean that i put my head in the sand? So, everybody here is putting their head in the sand??? How offending & insane!

Radiant2007 :-):Why don't you turn off the ads?  I think that should solve the problem.

I just was playing a game and looked at the top of my screen at the commercial that was on display there:

an add to check out COLLEGE GIRLS' profiles accompanied by moving photo's from young girls hardly dressed; kissing....

I had no idea that BK was supporting or is supported by these kind of profane commercials. Doesn't it say anywhere on any board, that we need to be careful what to say, because this site is being visited by children??? And now this!

WOW!! I am really shocked... I will just remove my profile here; I cannot and will not support a site having these kind of commercials running on their screens!    

    

I just ran out of time on a game that said before I went out to a meeting I had about 11 hours to play. The times are screwed up lmbo! The meeting can go on a bit but not 11 hours lmbo!You prolly already know that but just thought I would mention it lmbo! Also my smilies will no longer work properly. You have your work cut out lmbo!

King Reza: I didnt take offence to it, that was why i laughed i thought it was funny

Oceans Apart:I was only joking.  I meant no offense.  

King Reza:, funny though lol

TarantinoFan:No tourism related advertisements, please

Well thankyou Fencer for fixing the spelling on the capital of South Korea in the clock settings. I wait patiently unitl you can see your way clear to correcting the spelling for the capital of my lovely state. (Sydney) Capital of the First State of Australia and one of the best places in the world to live!!!

BerniceC:

TarantinoFan: be careful LOLOL....you arent supposed to criticise, what you think
doesnt matter according to Fencer addressing me on general chat, but it is what you do.
I had the same problem with the clock and it has been the same since forever...you get to put yourself in another time zone each year LOLOL (its like time travel) HAHAHAHAHA

Fencer: yes, thats the white. it was once gray for me

Antje: You mean the white background on one of these pages? Hyper backgammon (Fencer vs. AlanP)

BG:  I don't see any more detail than before.  I think "No Fonts" is going to be my favorite.

BG: i dont want it simple, i like the new look, i just dont like the white on the game board pages, its too bright.

Can I second what Anjte said? I'd like to have the old, simpler layout which I found much easier to read. Even switched to simple, there's too much detail on the new pages for me.

Well, at least the site has caught up with my local time now :-)

 Gabriel Almeida:

Fencer: Not A capital, but THE capital... it's the only one, they don't have any more! ;)

i liked my gray background with the old style. but i like the new castle style, however with my games, its now switched to a white background. for some reason, its a bit glaring, and i would prefer to have that gray again. is there anyway i can do that?

AbigailII: Just goes to show that you really should be more careful with your spelling! 13,000km is a big detour!!!

Fencer: Ok I read the blog. I don't understand ( I thought all clocks worked off Grenwich Mean Time the site clock tells me that I am +10 hours from GMT. What does CET have to do with me setting my site clock from GMT) I guess I will just have to tell my site clock that I live an hour west of where I really do live.

And I know that Seoul is the capital of South Korea. The clock lists "Soul". I was picking at the spelling mistake again!

AbigailII:

TarantinoFan: More people make the same mistake.

AbigailII: Yes, it would be possible.

TarantinoFan: The site clock is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. I've written something about it yesterday in my blog.
What's the problem with Seoul? It's a capital of South Korea.

PS. I know this is picky but I am proud of my country and like everyone to get it right.

Sydney is spelt with 2x y's not with an I as it is shown in the clock settings.

Would it be possible to add a setting where one can enter a URL for a custom stylesheet - and if this setting is set, it's treated as another style to switch to? (Looking at the logic of styleswitcher-1.js this doesn't seem like a major change). This would make developing alternative styles much easier.

For instance, if I were to set the setting to 'http://www.abigail.be/style/brainking.css', I could work locally to develop a different style and if done, present it to Fencer as one of the user developped styles.

The site clock is still not doing what it is supposed to do. Australia went back to Eastern Standard time on Sunday morning at 2am but the site clock (if set on Brisbane,Sydney,Melbourne,Vladivostok) still reads an hour ahead. The actual time here at the moment is 12.20am on March 27 but the clock tells me that if I live here the time should be 1.20am????

BTW. Where the heck is Soul?????

Fencer: Much better. Thanks.

Fencer: much easier to see thanks

AbigailII: What now? The no fonts style.

AbigailII:But on my screen, it's a grey rectangle on a beige background! 

I must say, I find the boards with the new style sheets harder to use than the old way. Can we at least have a different background for messages and the surrounding area? Just a tiny border doesn't do it.

And textboxes should look like textboxes (which are traditionally "lowered"). Now it's just a white rectangle in a sea of white among other white rectangles in the same white sea.

TarantinoFan: I reply to you on the Movies board.......--->

Rose: Thanks Rose. That is just so Quentin. And my fav movie.

TarantinoFan: I see your resevoir dogs icon and Quintin pic.

gogul: Thankyou. Can everyone see it now???

TarantinoFan: press ctrl/f5 and you'll get it :)

Do we get notice if one of our pics is rejected? My icon changed but my big pic didn't.

I mentioned this before, with no response - and I'm not sure if it is a bug, or just something that basically makes the feature pointless.

In the tournament templates, it does not save the name or description as part of the template.

Those are the areas that for me takes the longest to fill out - and to have a template with those 99% filled out where I just need to make a small change for each template would be VERY helpful - but right now all that a template saves is the settings for the tournament - which is something that usually takes me 10 seconds to do without a template.

Any chance to get this bug fixed - the templates are a great idea for someone like me who makes a lot of tournaments, but un-usable right now.

joshi tm: Because nobody has reported it yet.

Why is in the new castle layout the Prize tournament name not bold-fonted?

King Reza:

Thanks

BG:Yes.