Darjeeling

Clear, thank you!

Hi. I haven't played here in a few years. Now my tournament completion rate is stuck at 70%, and no matter how many tournaments I complete it does not change. What could be causing this? (no idea how it got to 70% in the first place, as I believe I always finish what I start) Thanks for your help.

What do you think are the 3 best improvements to BBO in the last five years?

All your objections make sense. I agree with most of what you all say. Does this mean everything has been considered, tried and discarded - that there is simply no solution? I find it hard to believe that a place like BBO simply accepts this. I see hundreds of posts about rating systems both in BBO as on the forums, with endless discussions and critiques and the most sophisticated suggestions. The expertise is absolutely there. I love to just click one button and then I am whisked away to an empty seat. If I had to search for tables with only friends, exactly one empty seat, and then set the permission mode to manual I'd spent 80% of my time managing instead of playing. Do tell me if it's too much to ask for: just be spared comments that noone would dare to utter at a live table.

I am surprised to see there is so little discussion on this forum about abuse in the form of rude behaviour. Roughly once every hour I play someone crosses the line in my presence. There must be hundreds if not thousands of violations every day. The typical abuser goes around playing at random tables, waits until he can find fault with anyone, scolds him/her and more often than not leaves in the middle of the hand (if you're lucky; some stay or even remove the scoldee if they are host). Needless to say; this takes away a lot if not all the fun of playing on BBO. What can we do about this? - Yes, I can also play only with people I know against people I know. This would reduce my BBO-activity by 99,99 percent. - Yes, I know I can make these people 'enemy'. Been adding such people for years (900+ on the list now) and it just keeps coming at the same rate. - Yes, I know it is possible to report abuse. Sometimes I even do report. But even if this method always leads to the desired result, apparently the barrier to report is too high and hence the problem persists. Or does my (silent) presence at a table simply evoke rude behaviour? Again, what can we do about this? Post a message to every player every time s/he logs on explaining the house rules, including sanctions? Lower the barrier for abuse reporting? Right-click persons name, mark abuse => automatic message to abuse with a timestamp? Assign behaviour-ratings and give option to play only rating >x? Allow players to only play with boardcompletionrate>98? Require members to supply their real name when they sign up? Anyone?

When starting a new table you have a large choice of types of scoring. One of them is playing hands from a past tournament and being scored against the then players. There used to be 20+ tournaments to choose from, since about one month ago the choice is restricted to 1 (one) tournament; the 2000 Springgold final. Is this correct? Is it my fault? Why has it gone? Are they coming back? etc.