Snoopy:  I'll give ya $5 for it!

Snoopy: Please stop shouting.

This random team was found by accident when Mad Monkey was doing a completely different thing.

He started his team as an experiment to see what would happen.

Nirvana and I both found the concept interesting so we PM'd Mad Monkey to ask about it.

Mad Monkey and I set up a team to see if the challenge would even start yet. As you know by reading the original message that has caused all this drama, nothing has happened with that challenge as yet.

My message to Mad Monkey on the subject was to leave it and wait and see. All great things come from trial and error. If we have it ready to go we can test it and let Fencer know of any bugs etc so that he can release it to the paying members in good order and without a lot of bugs etc.

I'm sorry that you find our experiments so detrimental to the other f/s but I think releasing an untested, untried new thing on the site at the moment would be a lot more detrimental, not only to your f/s but also to the site as a whole. With the recent upset over BK being down quite a lot a new thing that doesn't work properly wouldn't go down very well with the frustrated paying customer.

Andersp:
i swap my black rook for anything right now

MadMonkey:   I would rather be a computer engineer than a Black Rook, so i absolutely dont consider myself better than you!

MadMonkey:
i was not trying to create trouble and i was not butting in
i was asking why one fellowship should have a very clear advantage of building up a team on what is NOT AVAILABLE TO EVERY PAYING CUSTOMER

MadMonkey:  You are quite correct to conclude that messages intended only for one person should not be posted publicly.  (With the possible exception of Thoughts and Prayers.)  Message boards are intended for everyone to read and comment on anything posted here.

MadMonkey: I do not agree. I did not reply to cause conflit. If someone does not agree with what I say as you don,t. That is not conflit to me. That is your right as is Snoppy,s or anyone elses.

MadMonkey:  Even we "Certain users" / Trolls appreciate that you are helping Fencer build Brain King, please accept our sincere THANK YOU!

Mousetrap: If i address this to you (as i have), i expect you to read it and reply if you wish, as i would any form of communication addressed to anyone individually.

Some just reply to things to create problems & conflict as this has just proved

MadMonkey: Everyone is alowed their say. Just because someone does not agree with you does not mean they are butting in. It would not pay for all trees to be privots.

Fencer: Sorry about this post earlier that was addressed to you

In future i will PM you about everything as others can not help butting in with trivial comments

The idea of this board is for everybody who is interested in BrainKing itself, its structure, features and future or is it not

OR is it about sulking because others are trying to help build BrainKing and others are not, they find more fun in moaning rather than trying to improve things

Well according to some, JUST because they have a Black Rook it makes them better than everyone else, well let them think that.

I know personally what do for the site

If there are issues that need addressing by yourself or just need mentioning, i will do it if i think it is necessary.

Try to think constructive, then things may happen

Andersp:
yep
being a black rook sucks big time

Snoopy: Remember there are "Certain users" 

MadMonkey:
so if it hasnt been introduced at all why are you asking
why your team challenge match hasnt started
because surely something that hasnt been introduced cant possible start

Snoopy: It has not been introduced at all

Its a bug that i found after creating a Random Tournament. It is something i guess Fencer is working on !!

MadMonkey:
but has i said before it should be introduced at the same time for everyone
why should a few in the know gets things
after all we are all paying members
brings to mind when cloning backgammon was first introduced some players in the know got to play it ages before everyone else did

Snoopy: You have to change the URL to team 255, and there is the random Team, but as Fencer said last week, it is not finished yet, but you can build a Team ready

MadMonkey:
so where are they
hardly seems fair when some are gaven a chance to create teams when most dont even have that option

Snoopy: all Fellowships have them, well Nirvana & Tarantino asked me where they were and they have them

MadMonkey:
might be more helpfull if all fellowships got these options at the same time

Fencer: Set up a challenge match last night for random game. It set up fine, but just stays in waiting.

Is that because you have not finished it yet ?

Rose: Funny you should say that

I Archive all Tournament winners for a week to post them at the same time, as i run so many. When i tried at the weekend to go through all last weeks, several of them would not open OR were just blank

I do not know if this is the same message problem as a couple of weeks ago i reported to Fencer, when trying to reply to a message from someone it would not give me a box to write in. He fixed that though but i had to tell him who the message was for

I'm having issues with archived messages.. I scroll  down to reread
what I had written and only half the message is there.. the 'rest' is sort of
cut off to the far right... Wonder if anyone else has had that happen?

tonyh: Sorry, seems like Paulo had the right idea for you...

Czuch: I want to get rid of the message thing on the top left of the screen. I've tried 'no fonts' but that does not remove the three titles.

tonyh: I use the no fonts, try it.

tonyh: for now, with a custom stylesheet where you set the visibility of "style-switcher" to none

How may I get rid of the 'Castle - Simple - No fonts' at the top?

alanback: thanks :)

alanback: Good. It's getting too close to Purplephobia. lol

Tuesday:  I think I'd better declare us before we get into trouble!

Tuesday:  How about this one?  It's on the Wikipedia page for Pupa ... the pupa of another insect I hope never to meet, the "cockchafer" ...

Cockchafer pupa

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    An irrational fear of pupae?  pupils? puptents? 

Tuesday: Yes & that was too funny & creative not to laugh at! Im sure Fencer will laugh at it too! 

Pupaphobic: no , you cant delete an account .........

Just wondered, I don't intend to do so, but I wondered if its possible lol

Czuch: IE7 has a rendering mechanism that waits for the whole page to load before drawing it.
Previous IE versions and most other browsers start rendering the page as soon as it is downloaded. So, they start by rendering the left column, then make space for the central part and finally shrink the whole page to make space for the right column. This is why it seems like the page is jumping from side to side until it is completelly downloaded .
Most browsers try to display the page as soon as possible to give the impression that they load pages faster. Most of the time there is no problem with that. Except in cases like BK where the layout of the page can't be accuratly determined until close to the end of the page, because of that right column.

Opera does have a setting to only start rendering the page after a few seconds. Not sure if Firefox has anything similar. Otherwise, if it really is such a big deal, seems like IE7 might be a good bet for you.


Another option would be to convince Fencer to put the code of the right column before the central part of the page. Stylesheets should help make sure that the whole thing falls into place properly... unless, of course, someone has them disabled

rednaz23: I use firefox, and I have the exact same thing happen....

rednaz23:

TarantinoFan: hmmm.... this sounds like a problem for the computers board! I am not sure what it is, but someone in that DB might be able to help you, for it sounds like a software problem. I don't have that problem at all... You must be using firefox huh?

rednaz23: Well I just counted while waiting for this page to load and I counted a full 6 seconds for that side to load. (It didn't need to load any red numbers but I do have 5 friends online at the moment.

It is frustrating because you can't start to work with the page until that column has loaded because it kicks the page sideways. Several times I have gotten ahead of the load and then it kicked on me and I clicked the wrong thing and had to go back and re-do what I was intending as well as fix the wrong thing I clicked! I have put the suggestion in this board but I will add a formal request in the Features board.

TarantinoFan: Within that little red number is a lot of code. Particularily the website link to whatever game you have with each friend. There is also some html code to change the color of the font to red... so those things together may be causing a few extra moments of delay...

The thing to do to get rid of that little delay is to make all your friends not friends. You could also stay on top of all of your games, meaning less code pops up that you have to wait to load, and the final option is to nicely ask Fencer for a way to eliminate those individual things on the right side.... which would be a really nice feature... or a way to reorganize the side features to the way each individual person wants it organized... that would also be nice! I don't think it is a neccessity, but those are things that can always be done to give the individual more control of there main page... sort of like facebook! ...you can make it look like however you want! ...within reason of course.

TarantinoFan:
i love to be able to turn of the whole of the right hand side of the page because i know when i left every fellowship a few months ago the page loaded superfast

Snoopy: I don't know either. But after that last addition I have wait an extra bit for that column to load.

TarantinoFan:
im still at a loss trying to understand how having red numbers next to a list that already shows up on your page makes it longer to load