AbigailII:  I'm interested to know whether you adopt the same approach to your interactions with people off the web -- do you ignore body language, facial expression, tone of voice, etc.?  I believe smileys are intended to substitute for those nonverbal cues that convey so much of our meaning (as much as 90%, according to some authorities).  I'm sure most people would agree that a great deal of information can be conveyed by a wink! 

AbigailII: But I smileys, especially when people are creative with them Guess it's a matter of personal choice

pauloaguia: Yes, and? It's my choice, isn't it? If people are currently answering post with a silly blinking smiley (or worse, answering with a dozen of them), do you really think I'm going to spend a millisecond in trying to figure out what they mean?

If one can't be bothered to use words in a post, I can't be bothered to read them.

AbigailII: About your last option: sometimes Fencer (and others) answers requests with just a smile, you may miss important information if you hide those posts...

I've a suggestion for smiley settings. Currently, the options are either smileys or numbers. My proposal is a three state switch: smileys, numbers, and no smileys. The latter would neither show smileys, nor numbers.

Oh, and a setting "ignore posts with more smileys than words" would be great as well.

pauloaguia: I always check my games before I send it as I posted in my message. I am on webtv so at first I thought it was maybe something with that... but since it happened about 5 times I got to wondering why? I don't have the games, becauseI played them. When I get another one I will report it there.
Thanks. You too Maxxina.

Pbarb2: Post a bug in the bug tracker with links to specific games and move numbers. Then Fencer may take a closer look.

Do you usually click on it before the page is completely loaded? And do you usually check the page before submiting the move to make sure that it was played where you intended it to? Sometimes, elements in the page may shift position while the page is being loaded, and you can click on one place that suddenly becomes some place else, and you end up making a move you didn't intend to. That's why you should always check the move before actually submiting.
Not sure if this is your case, but it's a frequent situation forsome users...

Pbarb : Put here some id of games where it is . It will help fencer a lot

I have been playing the dice games. I am getting 0's where I don't place them. They are coming right in the beginning of my games. No reason not to fill a space. I look at each game before I send it. Is anyone having this problem? This has just happened in the last
few weeks. I know that I place 0's when no other move can be made...but this is not that type of move. I just had this happen on my 5th game.
Thanks.. if anyone can help me in this.

ive just noticed on the gameaddicts ludo team the captain has entered a player who is now a pawn
will this player still be allowed to play or should i get him to withdraw the team and put someone else in?

gogul: ok lets finish this .. discussions about game rules (or other important issues) should be on the appropriate board, when the poster thinks it doesnt get any attention within a certain amount of time he might post it on here, but the mods will redirect the discussion following from it to the appropriate board again

of course it is (maybe this is a bit too ask from some people though ;)) intended that the posters think thoroughly if a message is important enough before posting it here ;)

lets continue as it was before the messages about the turkish checkers rules, as that was clearly spam on all boards

alanback: rofl....would like to be

alanback: exacly

Hey Ajtgirl ----> General Chat (☼ajtgirl☼, 2006-05-17 04:59:09)

Eriisa: oups. I ment the interest groups

Eriisa:  Perhaps "passionately opinionated"

passionated = passionate?

Gabriel Almeida: Yes, and with the time the passionated players will own these boards ;)

AbigailII: I agree with you. Games boards are empty, they doesn't work. Evn when we post there something, we never have replys from noone. It seems that they aren't seen for those game players. I do agree, there cold be less boards. These one could join all games boards.

Eriisa: That page is amazing!
€1 = sfr.1.66 = $1.38

go to this link

http://brainking.com/en/PaidMembership?p=2

Its found on the top of the Paid membership page.

How do you find out how much a membership costs in dollars?? (usa)

coan.net: Redfrog.. Thank you guys for your help.
I saw that once and forgot where it was..
I just have 6 showing now. That is so much better.

Pbarb2: On the main settings page - under "other parameters"

Other parameters
Refresh period of main page and game pages:
Number of my best BKR shown on the main page:
Number of games shown on the main page:

you can select it there.....

Number of my best BKR shown on the main page: NONE

That will take it off both your main page, and fellowship pages. There is no separate setting for each.

How do I get the Best Rating and best BKR turned off my front board? I have so many games and I have to scroll so far to get to my games and ponds.
I looked on settings and didn't see it. Unless it was there and I missed it.
Thank You

Eriisa: One post? Why do you think it will be restricted to one post? Do you think the proposed rule change for Turkish checkers was the very first time a rule change was suggested? And that it never happens again? Furthermore, your suggestion was to, and I quote you:

if there is a hot topic running on the board, that a general notice could be posted on here so that non-readers of a category board could know about it.

That to me doesn't suggest ONE post. It suggest that anytime someone thinks there's a "hot topic" running on a board, it's fine to post messages pointing to the topic on other boards.

And yes, a game is a feature. What do you imply with that? That all the postings on the dozens of boards dealing with the various games should be made here? Including the posts of the board you no longer wish to read (the Ludo board)? And I guess the "Feature requests" board is redundant as well.

Why not just cancel all the other boards, and just post everything here? It's all happening on "brainking.com" anyway....

AbigailII: I am not saying Spam the boards! This is the BrainKing board to discuss its structure, features and future.

Is not a game a feature? I don't have time to read every board on the site so all I was saying is an announcement here that a discussion about the rules on a game on another board is not totally out of line.

Now a 2 week discussion about whether a ONE POST announcement should be allowed is becoming just a bit over the top. So I will not say anymore about it.

Eriisa: Eh, no, that doesn't make sense at all. Then all the boards would be cluttered with message "Hot topic on board XXX!".

If you want to know about threads on the Ludo board, you should read it (or view the RSS view). I'm not interested in many boards, but I am interested in this board. However, if this board would be cluttered with messages about hot topics on other boards, then I would no longer read this board. And then when there's a hot topic on this board, you would have to post it on the other boards so I can learn about them....

Hrqls: That's like I love playing Ludo but I never go to the Ludo Board (anymore, that is). So it would make sense to me, that if there is a hot topic running on the board, that a general notice could be posted on here so that non-readers of a category board could know about it.

In the Turkish Checkers situation, I assumed that would happen. So in that case, Hrqls re-directing the conversation to the Turkish Board is an expected move.

*crawling back under my rock*

Hrqls: LOL. I'm horrified by the imagination to once simply say "lol" in a real life conversation. It never happened till today, buhh

I'm not sure which is a bigger waste of time.
1) trying to debate revision of game rules
2) complaining that someone did
lol.......

gogul: lol! i would love a lolboard :)
(the dutch word 'lol' means 'fun' :))

i think there might be too many boards already .. personally i am perfectly fine with a board per game type or as it is right now

people who liked the discussion about the rules of turkish checkers though didnt find it on the checkers board so i assumed they might want to have a separate board for discussions about game rules, as i think thats more important than the ordinary chats about the games on those boards, but i guess they dont need it either :)

Hrqls: Ya, it is a categorical question to me too. For example: If I want to search for the word extrapolate on BrainKing, I'll soon have the idea to suggest to create a board exclusively for the word extrapolate. That way I wont have to invest a lot of time to find the word. With the possibilities of today (you know, hyperlink and stuff), everyone could choose the order he likes. I personaly would favorize the opption to have boards for each single word, that means a wordboard for the word "word". A thatboard for the word "that". A thatboardboard for the word "thatboard", and so on. Do you think that makes sence? The basics of Internet can put all in each favorized order. ...?

conan.net: That bulb is a good advertisement.
emmett: Yes, I saw that in The Gammon Cube fellowship and I thought it was a new feature of Brainking.

gogul: i like to have things a bit categorized (is that an english word ? ;)) people who are interested in sports but dont play any can go to the sports board to read about it, it doesnt have to posted on this board which is about brainking in general

i admit that gamerules of games on brainking are in a grey area wether they belong more on the game board itself or on the board for the specific game .. after all the posts about turkish checkers on all boards i had to direct it to the appropriate board and hope something like this wont happen again in the future :)

coan.net: Thanks! I see what you mean now

emmett: ◙ The Gammon Cube ◙ - it shows up at * 28 * in the link, but if you follow the link - the * 28 * is converted to

inpassant: Can you provide me with an example of what you mean? I went to the fellowship pages and couldn't see a yellow dot.

coan.net: ROFL Good One

inpassant: The fellowship owner (whoever that might be) can now put a smiley next to a fellowship name. Probable just a BIG BOSS just having fun!

What's the purpose of a yellow bulb near the name of a fellowship?

Bernice:  I think the answer lies in very limited access to computers and, for that matter, to telephones.  According to the link below, there were only around 190,000 internet users in Cuba as of December 2006, most of which were probably commercial users.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/car/cu.htm

I have looked and perhaps the eyes arent working properly LOL, but looking at the list of countries that play on here I cant find CUBA...is it there or do we have any players on here from there:)
and if not does anybody know why?

Hrqls: Well what are the mods of these boards thinking about then? Peoples who don't play these games
could be interested in reading about the game, not worth going to seach over several boards to find finaly something interesting about it. Switch-overs don't hurt.

gogul: ok, i thought so as well. i was looking for a solution for the checkers board not giving any response though :)

gogul: I feel this is a vicious circle. Next subject?

Hrqls: There are, Backgammonboard, Checkerboard, Chessboard ect.

might it be nice to have a board dedicated to discussion about game rules of all games on here in general ?