twcho Posted October 30, 2003 Report Share Posted October 30, 2003 I have once come across playing with my regular pd, patlkp (small letter L) and was very astonished to hear my pd talking to me during the play. He could even told me about my hand pattern and cards in my hand during the bidding. I was so annoyed and angry about his unthethical behaviour that I instantly reported this to one of the yellow names (maybe Gerardo or Uday, sorry I forgot the name) how this can be happening and this must be a very serious bug. He told me that maybe someone just made a joke on us by using the capital letter of i to confuse us and i did found out that another patlkp (must be capital letter i) was kibitzing at our table. Later I clarified with my pd and learned that he had not done any trick and this guy had also been talking with him and he did not know what was going on at that time. I am really sorry of suspecting my pd's ethics. The whole issue is so confusing and annoying that I really hope that BBO can use a font that can distinguish the capital letter i and small letter L to prevent this from happening again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted October 30, 2003 Report Share Posted October 30, 2003 BBO currently supports 3 fonts: Verdana, Arial, Times New RomanDon't ask why its only 3 :) The default font is Arial.In Arial, a lowercase L (ell) looks exactly like an uppercase I (eye)So some username spoofing is possible. You can switch fonts - click the yellow gear icon on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen and you'll see some font choices on the left. The other two fonts do not suffer from this problem Some joker did this with a large number of usernames, including your pards. I suspended him/her, of course. ui Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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