07922 Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 mention was made of red players without explanations. what is this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Players who are experiencing connection problems, or who get disconnected from BBO are marked in the color red. Their seats are reserved for a short period of time, in case they manage to get back online. So when someone talks about reds it means disconnected players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooltuna Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Players who are experiencing connection problems, or who get disconnected from BBO are marked in the color red. Their seats are reserved for a short period of time, in case they manage to get back online. So when someone talks about reds it means disconnected players. Wait!! these are the Russian or Chinese players, also know as pinkos :) As a more honest possibility others could mean vulnerable conditions apply to a particular player but the connection issue is also a strong or stronger candidate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillybean Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Wait!! these are the Russian or Chinese players, also know as pinkos :) As a more honest possibility others could mean vulnerable conditions apply to a particular player but the connection issue is also a strong or stronger candidate.Toona, take your meds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Wait!! these are the Russian or Chinese players, also know as pinkos :) As a more honest possibility others could mean vulnerable conditions apply to a particular player but the connection issue is also a strong or stronger candidate. Hmm given the Forum where this was posted i guess it could mean vulnerable too :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Players who are experiencing connection problems, or who get disconnected from BBO are marked in the color red. Their seats are reserved for a short period of time, in case they manage to get back online. So when someone talks about reds it means disconnected players.These players are only marked red on the windows client. So if you are using the web client you will not know of the connection problem but other players at the table, using the older client, may discuss the 'red' player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Red actually means "seat reserved for" in both the Windows and web-clients. If a red name appears at a tournament or a team match table, the player in question is not online (because if the player was online he would be taken to his/her seat automatically and could leave that seat only by either logging off or withdrawing from the tournament). If a red name appears at a bridge club table, the player in question may or may not be online. Of course a player who is not online may be having connection problems, but the redness in itself does not necessarily indicate this. Fred GitelmanBridge Base Inc.www.bridgebase.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Sometimes people use "red" to refer to the red dot by someone's name, indicating connection problems. I'm not sure which is commoner, but for example in the tourney chat when people say "... is red" I think they usually mean the red dot, since the TD himself can see when someone is offline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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