pgt: I think that what happens when you change your "weekend days" is that "automatic vacation" gets turned off, and then you have to go back and turn it on again.

At least that is what happened to me the past time I changed my weekend days....

Aganju: Fabulous suggestion!

suentun: I'm curious, how would you propose to do ratings for bughouse?

pgt: Auto-pass for backgammon (and related games) is perfectly fine as is; at a minimum it fits the rules of the game, which doesn't always happen in games on this site!

I realize that some players would like another auto-pass option, one where if you are on the bar but have the option to double, you can click a box somewhere and you can give up that doubling right until you choose to unclick the box (or something like that).

I personally would never use that option since I would be giving up equity. I would also stop playing gammon games here if such a rule change replaced the current auto-pass feature instead of becoming an additional option.

Fencer has stated repeatedly that he has much higher priorities in terms of making Bk a better site, and I think he is correct in that point of view.

By the way, I like the idea of being able to flag particular games, although as a pawn there is no point for me personally using it. For example, one could flag all tournament games that contain a long time control, thus making it easier to play those games when you don't have time to play every game each day, or each log-in session.

rabbitoid: How about something like, "Playing games during my lunch break helps me to relax and come back from lunch thinking logically".

For a possible new category of achievement points, I nominate from plakoto "Your opponent's mother piece is pinned".

Adding this new achievement would help plakoto get more players.

In the same spirit of adding new players to a game, I also nominate for Ataxx and Assimilation the category of "win a game by a shutout", i.e. when your opponent has no pieces on the board.

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

P.S. I suspect other players can find some other reasonable new "achievements" in relatively underplayed games here at BK in order to popularize those games too.