vylette

A good rule of thumb, which almost ALWAYS turns out to be right for me is that if you dont have a opening or weak, and no one has bid yet: HCP + your # of spades is less than 15, dont open 3rd or 4th seat. So with that hand you have 10HCP and 2 spades, so that is 12, dont open.

Being able to leave a negative vote or feedback could be too damaging or cause extra hassles for the people who run BBO. I know with ebay alone, getting a negative feedback was damaging, even if it was undisturbed. A way to rate players might be just focus on the positive. Have a "friendly, or good player" thumbs up rating and you can only give positive points to people. So if you sit down with someone who doesn't have any positive points they are either new or something is up..