blind dice poker is very interesting. So is blind maharajah chess. This makes for a fun night.

heavenlyemma: Yeah, way back when I had hair.

at least I do not feel so alone now

ruby2shoes: Yes, you're not the only one!

Is everyone getting problems like me? My tournament wins are not being added on and tonight the site is unusable for playing - using IE and Firefox, the picture of the game boards is not complete

Czuch: Thankyou

heavenlyemma:

Thankyou Fencer

Papa: Is that a icon pic of yourself when you was a lad?

heavenlyemma:

Papa: It's working now I got this when I changed my photo which I didn't get before.

"Changes have been stored in the database and are waiting to be approved by an administrator."

Papa: I'll try it again.

heavenlyemma: perhaps but I was just able to upload a pic fine so something is amiss

Czuch:

Papa: There is. It's BK since the move there are bugs I think. The pic is fine no need for you to see it.

heavenlyemma:

Czuch: Cheeky, no they are not nudes.

heavenlyemma: If I could see it I might be able to tell. There has to be a logical reason.

heavenlyemma: Maybe they dont like nudes?

Papa: I've checked and everything is fine with it right size, jpg but it doesn't want to upload.

I asked Jason about it last night and he tried it for me on his account and it didn't work for him either.

heavenlyemma: Check the image type and the kilobyte size. The image type must be jpg, gif or png and its size cannot exceed 100 kilobytes.

Fencer: Just what Jules has said.

Fencer: She's sending a request for a pic to be added to her profile and it's not working. She's not getting the usual message that it's waiting for approval by the administrator or anything.

Fencer: Any idea why it will not display this Tournament Madhouse 2007 - Week 39


Nothing major, but i know you like these little mysteries

heavenlyemma: "It won't work" is not the best description. What exactly happens?

I'm having trouble up loading a photo it's the right size and everything but it won't work.

Fencer could you have a look at it when you got time, thanks

Jason: I got that part too, but they also cannot post anything else either....


why not just a ban where they get a message, you cannot read this board, you acn not write on this board, just like when you are not a fellowship member and try to access a board?

Czuch: If a person is banned they can see the board but cannot edit/delete thier own posts .

coan.net: I guess the point is that if someone is breaking the user agreement, then it doesnt matter where it is occuring, they should just be kicked off the site, right?

But if you are doing something that only warrants discussion board sanctions, then why not a ban instead of just a hide?

Purple: I dont think any posts are deleted automatically by a ban, maybe I am wrong?

anyway, doesnt fencer have the ability to find and read all posts even deleted ones, including private messages and on games as well?

Czuch: Well this is not really a place to talk about specific issues like this, but is a good time to remind everyone about the User Agreement, which everyone on this site should follow. This user agreement covers the whole site, even fellowships. Fellowship do allow for "relax the foul language rules", but does not allow the rest of the user agreement to be ignored.

Read the user agreement here: http://brainking.com/en/UserAgreement (A link can be found at the bottom of every page.)

Purple: When you ban, the posts are not all deleted. So a Moderator has to be careful to also hide them (so the bad posts are not seen), or remove the bad post. (would not be good to ban without doing something with the bad posts). Most moderators do a good job of coping the post to the event log - which logs everything that is done - - - and is recommended when a moderator does take action, to just copy & paste the offending posts so there is a written record.

A hide instead of ban so you have a record of what was said that can be reviewed by Fencer or The GM's and the violator can not claim that he "posted no such thing." If you ban someone are not all their posts deleted?

Czuch: Fencer, it seems that the Globals have the power to hide someones posts site wide, including the private fellowship boards, but they can only ban them from the public discussion boards.

Could you make it so either the site wide hiding doesnt include fellowship boards, or that they can actually ban someone from fellowships as well as public boards?

Personally, I dont think that the globals should have any say over private fellowships, so my preference would be to change the way the site wide hide works

..and for anyone who needs to be banned on all boards everywhere, then maybe they should simply be removed from the site by you all together?

Okay, here is the problem now... apparently this person has been hidden on all boards, both public and private fellowships, so they are still able to post and chat with anyone who is a moderator!!!!

Please, what is the purpose to hide this person when they should simply be banned?????

Could the Globs please fix this asap, or please explain why not?

Bernice: That sounds like the appropriate measure to me too!

Like i said earlier, hiding someone should only be done when you want a post to be modified, and you want the poster to do it themselves, and then to be taken of hide.

But lately, moderators have taken it upon themselves to edit posts at their own discretion, and they have used the hide option when they should be using the ban option

Czuch: in this particular case where violent threats were made against members and mods, a banning would be more appropriate....not necessarily a total banning from the site, but take away ALL posting rights....then if they are re-instated at any time if the person persists with the threatening ways, then ban him/her from the site.

Bernice: ... or maybe so the person can have a chance to edit their offensive posts, before they are taken off hide???

It seems silly to me sometime, how mods will use the hide option, when a ban is what is more relevant

Bernice: There is a difference between a hide and a ban. I am not sure what the purpose of just hiding someone is, maybe if you want them to be able to post and respond to posts, so that they can be seen after the hide is lifted???

if someone is banned from posting to the boards, why are they allowed to post but cant be seen...banned from posting should mean just that...
no posting at all
..nada...niente...none...zilch...zero........

Under the current system the only people who talk to him are the only people that are allowed to read what he has to say, so where is the "punishment"

Hrqls: I posted an item in the bug tracker.  My case was about Message box items, though--not discussion board posts.

Czuch: Rather silly to have that information about something you dont want isnt it?   LOL

Andersp: Okay, now that i have that figured out... I have to agree with you that it is past time for Fencer to remove any red numbers for posts written by someone who is on hide

coan.net: ahhhhhhh! i think you got it!!!

This board has about 10 moderators, and it appears that a couple of them are replying to this person, I just cant see them! LO , too funny to have someone on hide and keep up a conversation with them that nobody else can see, I think I will ask them to either stop talking with them or take them off hide

Thanks!

Czuch: It could also be that a person is hidden on the board by the moderator - still able to post, message shows up as new red number, but post is hidden from everyone except moderators.

Czuch: report it in the bug tracker with the mention of the time at which it occured and which board

Hrqls: Okay, now it looks like there is a person who's posts I am not seeing, but it doesnt show anywhere that i have them on hide? I tried an experiment by putting someone else on hide, and I could see them being hidden and it did not list anyone else? Something is amiss

Czuch: it could be that someone edited a message you already read (i think that is counted as a new message for the red number, but doesnt show as new when you read the board)

or that a mod or glob deleted one of the new messages

Andersp: I did think of that, but I checked and nobody there on hide either?

Czuch: Probably because you have people on hide?   Fencer has said it can be fixed, but thats only 2-3 years ago