cjv123

PS Wasn't trying to be a Drama Queen. I added in about Beginners playing in the seemingly non-Beginner area (i.e., not the area listed for "relaxed" games, where chatty instruction is appropriate) because it impacts my overall assessment. It was obvious to me from a long thread pinned to the top of another forum that the issue of player ratings is discussed a lot. Here I was only trying to talk thru the 25% or so of games with behaviors I consider trollish so I could "hang in there" because it's Winter in the Northern Hemisphere and Bridge rocks! Anyway, good luck and good bridge to all of you.

So for me, another 24 hours playing solo "Find me a table" (since I'm new none let me sit at "Interesting" ones) has led to roughly 50% games with cold beginners imposing on non-beginner tiers, 25% drive-by trolls as I mentioned above, and 25% the Joy of Bridge. The Signal-to-Noise is too low for me. But I do want to commend the site and its software and some excellent players I've had the privilege to play a few hands with. Adieu.

I'm new around here, and I'm certain this has been discussed before. I've encountered a series of trollish players, and I realized there is no (obvious) system to provide a reputational feedback on players, and certainly one easily interpretable when granting players seats at your table and when deciding which table to sit yourself at. I'm thinking something as simple as a "thumbs up/down" tally for a player, next to his/her username, each other player only permitted one vote, at most. With comments inside. Or, perhaps, a standard checklist of trollish behaviors, where you can "check" one if you encounter it. Sample trolls I've run into during the past 72 hours: complete troll who sits at table, then concedes all tricks. Troll who makes wrong bids so he can play every hand. Troll who abandons game when his own bad bid is revealed, etc. Troll who removes you from table when you point out his mistake. Anyway please accept my apology for posting this outside existing threads. The programming here is very good and a system of social reputation can easily be added. Else personally I worry I'll find the risk/reward to playing here to not be sufficient. I think this is a great site and I hope it can be cleaned up from the trolls.