Colorful chat for TD's

[WckedKadie]

Hi Fred,

 

Somewhat along this same line, you did tell me once a long time ago that you were considering making the TD's chat a different color than the players. You said you had put it on the back burner because of all the other things you were developing for BBO at the time. When you say you are developing "some" things, you are the master of the understatement. Having been in BBO since its earliest days, I find it incredible how fast BBO has grown. And all the wonderful new things offered. I personally believe it is by far the best bridge site among all.

 

The one thing I, along with all other TD's would really like to see is for our chat to be a different color. Even if it was just our sign in name. Possibly this might create programming problems since we play and TD under the same names? So many times I am called to the table and if it is for refusal to announce system and carding or failure to alert, or explain a bid, I many times feel like I am talking to myself. The player totally ignores the TD's requests. Even if we whisper to them. And if I have been called by an opp, I always ask them to stop playing so the offending party will be sure and notice my chat. I learned a long time ago as a TD that you may need brains to play bridge, but most bridge players online seem to be unable to read. :rolleyes: Usually the first thing that alerts me to the fact that the offending team actually is aware of my existence is when they complain the opps aren't playing. Well, yeahhhhhhh. So the excuse of ignoring chat to concentrate doesn't work in most of these cases.

 

Also in tourneys that allow chat from players (and kibs UGH) many times there is so much chatter going on in the tourney chat that when the TD says something, it just blends right in and most players miss it. So if it's not too much trouble, making TD chat a different color would be appreciated by all :unsure:

 

Regardless of this, thank you, thank you for a wonderful site.

[mtvesuvius]

Yeah, this is a good idea. I will direct tourneys, and my chat just blends right in. Maybe a Red Color would work?

[Old York]

Important Tournament Messages could benefit from being in a different colour, but general chat should not.

 

Many tournaments include social chat, many players find this distracting. If the chat was in Scarlet, Lime Green or Shocking Pink then perhaps not such a great idea.

 

The best way to make important messages stand out from the crowd is to surround them with playing card symbols, and make them short and to the point.

In an emergency you could use capital letters.

 

♦♦ Multi is Stricty Forbidded ♦♦

 

Maybe BBO could add a red exclamation mark symbol?

 

Tony ♥

[uday]

TD is free to bracket his chat with ( say) a pair of !h or !d -- that will work today.

[BillHiggin]

Some notes from a color blind individual:

 

1 in 12 males have some form of color blindness. Note that that does not mean that we live in a black and white world, just that we do not see all colors equally accurately. There are 4 main variations of color blindness (other than actual total color loss).

1) Green receptors that are tuned midway between green and red

2) Green receptors that are tuned to red

3) Red receptors that are tuned midway between green and red

4) Red receptors that are tuend to green

 

Blue receptors are not affected in any of these. This makes blue the only really "safe" alternative to black.

 

So, if this suggestion ever gets implimented, please make the color choice wisely (BLUE).