I sent Fencer an email to fencer@brainking.com asking for his address so as to be able to send Euro to pay for a membership for someone for a birthday present....it came back to me telling me it was spam and had been rejected by the recipient...it is nice to know that the money wasn't needed

Bernice: I second that

white pages from 6am until now which is 3.20pm.....

Bernice: well

blackviper55: why dont you leave the message as it is and stop changing it....you might get an answer...

need help get photos from a cell phone to the game site

coan.net: Considering that one can create a tournament up to two years in advance, why bicker about a 23 day difference?

In fact, why ask for tournament creation restrictions? Why not ask for more filter options? Restrictions on tournament creation options is limiting someone else, while better filter options allows everyone to get what he/she wants.

You know, kind of like the difference between the autopass we have , and autopass we want.

I may be a bit slow, but what has the fact that the tournament spammer is a pawn got to do with anything? rooks can be pests too, if they choose, and we can all come up with several names who spring to mind (the names will be different for each mind, so don't bother...)

And if the gentleman in question is now a pawn, it just means that he left us the tourneys as a going away present before reverting from rook. Nice of him, come to think of it...

Artful Dodger: I think those tournaments were made before they went down to pawn status maybe?

There are way too many tournaments sitting out there right now... one of the reasons I haven't created any myself lately.

To solve the current issue - deleting a lot of them would be helpful.

Long term solutions.

1. Limit on the number of open (public) tournaments a person can make - something like 20. (20 is a lot, but usually it's the extreme 100+ of the same tournament which is really the issue - so 20 still allows a lot, but not extreme)

2. Having tournament stay up to 30 days after the due date is WAY too long. 7 days should be the limit. If some some reason you want it to last longer, the tournament creator can change the tournament date to a later date to get around it. 7 days would give plenty of extra time past the start time for the tournament creator to change it if needed.

nodnarbo: I was thinking the same thing.. why are pawns allowed to do so.. She also just resigned not one or two.. but, I think 17 games I had going with her? And she did that with several others that I have recently learned.. why can't there be a restriction put on that player as to creating any multi game from here on out..

Artful Dodger: I was just going to say, I didn't think pawns could create tournaments

Fencer:  Maybe pawns should have a strict limit per month on how many tourneys they can create (like 1 - hehe)  ;)  and the rest of us have a limit too.  There's always fellowship tourneys to create and those can remain unlimited.  I keep my tourney creation down because there are so many already it seems pointless to add to the already huge numbers.

Just a thought but perhaps creating a tourney should only be a privilege of membership.  :) 

And maybe if tourneys don't fill up by the deadline they should just automatically be zapped. 

Fencer:
I submitted the below message on the tournament board, but no one came up with a response, so thought it was only me! Clearly not.

Also, I can't see how to delete these tournaments from my view.
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Subject: Tournament Filter
Excuse me if this has been asked before.
Is there a way to apply a filter to the tournaments which will not show certain creators.
e.g. show all tournaments not created by angelstar.

This should cut the current list of 1230 tournies by at least 75% and make the list more manageable)

(nothing against angelstar, just that I don't want to see these tournaments)

Note I already have game filters on.
Thanks.

rabbitoid: It might be easier to delete all tournaments created by that user.

kleineme: or maybe, simply, add some sort of 'don't show tournaments created by this user.' Fencer?

kleineme:

rabbitoid: Yes, it is really no fun anymore to look for new tournaments when all the interesting ones are buried under dozens of duplicates with the very same parameters and the very same starting date. If there is no admin or moderator available who could approach her and make her stop this nonsense, then in my opinion there should be at least an automated task which deletes those duplicates, probably already at creation.

rabbitoid: And this person userally deletes all their games after creating and making one or two moves. Not only that why is a pawn creating these games when they have no brains to enter themselves?
On second thoughts! Dont answer that!

Looks like someone has been turning tournament creation into a full time job.

rabbitoid:

Doesn't anyone else feel that 1259 defined tournament is a bit excessive?

Roberto Silva: Ah, that makes sense, now.

Summertop: you played a 2 game match: you lost one game and drew another, so overall you lost the match

BKR changes are calculated for the match as a whole and not for every individual game

OK, I'm surprised...I accepted a "draw" offer from an opponent not expecting my rating to drop. It did. I'm hoping someone can tell me why?

Game: Chess (Summertop vs. petrchy)

Note: Opponent's rating was 2075 (over 100 games, so it was established).
My rating was 1729

Fencer: Well that is good then (in a bad way lol).

Update Scanner (Extension) keeps picking it up for me , I guess its nothing to worry about then, will go back to my fishing

MadMonkey: The site.

Fencer, what does this brainking.info site message mean ?

I have been getting it for the last few weeks now

Is it me, the site or something else causing it ?

Czuch: Well that post in the blog assumed you read the previous entries. There was one about how anyone could quickly and easily earn at least 20 brains.

Czuch:

Artful Dodger: another brave male..LOL

Czuch: I don't have any brains either! 

Czuch: hahaha I would never admit to not having any brains LOL....you are a brave man ROFLMBO

The blog says a tournament open to everyone, even those who cannot afford to pay, yet some people like me do not have any brains, so how can everyone enter, even us with no brains? Only 29 people in the first attempt, that is a successful start?

Fencer: Great, thanks

MadMonkey:

Would it be possible Fencer to allow U-Tube(and others where possible) embeds on the World of Sport board ?

There is some great stuff going on at the Olympics at present, and would be great to be able to show others interested

Bernice: I have had a few favourite tshirts do that over the years. I just wore them and wore them and wore them some more for doing odd jobs lol. Oops that was off topic so I,ll turn it arround. I,ll look forward to seeing what the store has to offer.

MadMonkey: With a slightly modified set of goods.

Mousetrap: As rod said the store is temporarily closed , BUT when i spoke to Fencer about it earlier in the year he mentioned he was going to re-open it again

Mousetrap: I have a BK t-shirt and used to wear it all the time, but not any longer as it faded terribly (washed out) and the glitter paint wore off.

Marshmud: I thought so lol! Thanks very much everyone who answered.

Mousetrap: We where right mousetrap, there was a bk store

Mousetrap: I believe the store temporarily closed down.

I bought a brainking baseball cap a few years ago. I wear it all the time!

Mousetrap: sure was

see the very helpful help item:
http://brainking.com/en/Help?ht=16

Am I imagining things or was there a store on this site at one time where you could buy a Brainking Tshirt? Anyone remember?

beach:I had slow loads on my cable connection, but no unending white screens.

MadMonkey: Hey thats funny, i am talking to myself

Anyway, i got that on the brainking.info site just before the main site went down as well today, but a little latter the .info site come back, if that helps anything

This site has been down for me since 10 am est yesterday you could log in but could not play just big white screens

This site has been down for me since 10 am est yesterday you could log in but could not play just big white screens