gambler104: mmm

gambler104: my points are not updating when I read a board.

Is it once a day or once an hour?

Vikings: thank you both!!!!

Fencer: ooooh, that's twice I beat you to the punch

anastasia: Boards are once an hour.

anastasia: fencer ammended it to points given for a board once an hour

I'm a bit dense sometimes..sorry,lol...for the boards..we get points everytime we click on to read or just once a day or what? I play games,them come check the boards (some move very fast and if I don't do that I have to read through well over 100 comments to get caught back up)

gambler104: Your Profile page.

gambler104: it's in your profile

gambler104: Here

Is there any way to figure out your action points if you are not in the top 50?

Fencer: yep...the icing on the cake

baddessi: Thanks, that's one of the side effects.

Czuch Czuckers: Shortly, it is the only way to be fair to everyone. There was a bug and it must have been fixed. Now the system is more accurate and you should thank Luisifer he's found the bug during the first day, not after two weeks.
Anyway, it's just an monthly action. If you don't like it, wait for the August one.

Fencer: we appreciate all your hard work, keeping us all entertained. Way to go Fencer!

Czuch Czuckers: Yes. Accept it.

Fencer: Thats really nice!!!!!! While you were asleep, I spent the time reading every discussion board, and now you take all that away?????? Now I have 9 points for reading discussion boards???????????? aND ANYONE WHO NOW COMES ON TODAY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A COUPLE OF DAYS WILL HAVE AN UNFAIR AADVANTAGE????

It is done. Board points can be earned only once an hour, for every board separately. It should make the other types of points more important.

SafariGal: I agree but it was the way you spoke about a person who was just letting people know .

Jason: I am simply trying to give people some perspective. It isnt the end all and be all of existence and you have to admit, there have been quite a few recent posts from people who are taking this far too seriously

SafariGal: I would consider your post out of order , but its not my board .

Fencer: It would seem a lot of people are taking this far to seriously. As Fencer said, it will be fixed, please dont lose any sleep over it LOL

I can just imagine sitting down to dinner and Welly Walezs complaining to the family in a sobby voice "someone cheated me out of getting higher points on brainking this month boo hoo"

Geez peeps, lighten up and get some perspective !!!

There seems to be a small bug in the system. When it's fixed (soon), the discussion board action points will be reset and started over. Not a big problem, the action just started, it can still be finetuned.

Look at this with 13 games going

http://brainking.com/en/Statistics?p=4&u=3989&yf=2006&mf=7


<the link has been amended, it was showing 15,000 + points>

KotDB: I agree totally.  Actually, even if I open all discussion boards, BK doesn't realize if I'm reading them or not.  It's just opening and closing an dis of no certain use.  Moving points is better, in my opinion.

Jason: It's not only your opinion. I'm all for giving out rook memberships as prizes, but competitive discussion-board reading seems like a rather strange criterion.

As for the rest, I suspect we're talking about different things. But I'll leave it at that.

KotDB: well i did what was said on here as a test and it worked for me , so yes it has , thats why im not even going to consider trying to join in on this game ......its daft ....but thats only my opinion .

Jason: No, it hasn't. I've seen only hints, questions, and speculation, mostly baseless and incorrect.

KotDB: Its already been said how to do on here lol ,

I've just discovered that it is possible to receive points many times for reading the same posts. Between 200 and 300 of my points are the result of this experiment and should be removed from my score. But it's unlikely to matter, because I intend to bow out of the competition. I have neither the time nor the patience to keep up this craziness for a month, and I couldn't accept a prize in good conscience if I won by exploiting such a loophole.

And before anyone asks: No. Unless your name is Fencer, I will not tell you how.

Fencer: I think so to Filip

Picasso1012: ONE point i believe ,unless you was on last night and then you would have got SIX POINTS
TWO points for a public board .

Fencer: sorry, just checked in. excuse my ignorance. If I read the boards at 55 messages per page how are points accumulated. Thank You.

O2i: I don't know what you mean by multiple windows being open (ie. for what and how?), but I made a mistake about the accounts. I've just reread the rules page and seen that you can get referrals for new guest accounts, in which case, yes, someone could register 100 a day... My bad.

playBunny: having multiple windows open doesnt make any sense either but it is earning some people quick points ;)

02i: Guest accounts are not memberships. You don't get anything for referring a new guest account. That would make no sense.

Looks like I underestimated the usage of discussion board points. 6 is too much, 1 would be better.

Is there going to be a chart on the people with the most points as it gets higher every month?

playBunny: lol. how much money did you pay? a pawn is also a registered account dear. yes you only get 50 points for it but its still better then 6 points.

02i: Then I'm not sure I understand what the problem is with someone creating 100 accounts and referring to themself - 100 subscriptions is a lot of money to pay for some points in a competition! Or are you talking about something else?

pawnme: well , there can be provisions for that too. people who share the computer can say that they do and then they can have their accounts separate but registered as a family or friends or group or whatever and not be allowed to refer one another or play against each other to prevent giving more than normal points or wins to someone. and playbunny i am talking about new registered accounts not guest visits.

playBunny: Ghostie postie

02i: Points for referrals work in the same way as Brains - only for new Members, not guest accounts.

02i: but.... (to play Devil's advocate) what if there were 2 or more people playing from the same computer, let's say at a college dorm or even from a family computer. Should a family only be limitted to one account?

Vikings: as far as your explanation goes , maybe thats it but that matter can only be resolved if the site is modigfied in a way that only one page of brainking can be opened at a time from 1 computer and if that can be done , it would also solve the problem of people having multiple accounts thats is if the coputer id is stored for each new account registered , that sort of thing is present on other sites like iyt.com where you can only create 1 new account from a computer. uptil now we are talking about illegal points from discussion boards but whats to stop someone from reistering 100 new accounts everyday from his computer and referring him/herself for all of them and right now there is no way of checking in as to who is legit and who is not.

pawnme: Give it a whirl and let us know if it works.

02i: You need to reverse the order so it displays the pages from oldest to newest.

pawnme: i dont think the pages matter like i said. i had 2000 new messages and they were on maybe 50 pages but as soon as i open 1 page they all stop appearing to be new ...even the ones on the next 49 pages.

LionsLair: ur no. 9 now