[microcap]

Just had something new happen to me...I was advertising for a TM on the old software. Having trouble finding players, I must have advertised too many times..all of the sudden, the software logged me out, and when I tried to log back in, I was banned for 2 minutes for spamming?

What gives?

thanks in advance..

[jandrew]

oooo-errr

I sometimes ask (by general chat in a Public Club) for volunteers to join a Teams Match, and have to repeat myself to get the required eight players.

How near am I to being dumped for "spamming"

jandrew

[ArtK78]

 microcap, on 2013-January-29, 11:15, said:

Just had something new happen to me...I was advertising for a TM on the old software. Having trouble finding players, I must have advertised too many times..all of the sudden, the software logged me out, and when I tried to log back in, I was banned for 2 minutes for spamming?

What gives?

thanks in advance..

At least you were not required to sit in the corner for 2 minutes.

[diana_eva]

Send the invitations less frequently. If same message scrolls on lobby chat continuously, with no other messages in between, it is considered spam.

[jandrew]

Phew. I feel safe.

My reminders are several minutes apart - there are lots of messages in between and I rarely ask more than twice (plus the original request).

[FM75]

Lobby!!
ROFL - That is sooo old school.

Do you realize you for half the BBO world - there is no "Lobby"?

Maybe you should be asking for a better way to promote tournaments.

I bet BBO would give it to you - if only to get you off the old software.

[microcap]

 FM75, on 2013-January-29, 17:47, said:

Lobby!!
ROFL - That is sooo old school.

Do you realize you for half the BBO world - there is no "Lobby"?

Maybe you should be asking for a better way to promote tournaments.

I bet BBO would give it to you - if only to get you off the old software.

It is my impression that organizing and starting team matches is much harder with the client software, which is why I stick with the old one. I seldom have trouble finding 8 players, today was unusual....

[fred]

 microcap, on 2013-January-29, 18:21, said:

It is my impression that organizing and starting team matches is much harder with the client software, which is why I stick with the old one. I seldom have trouble finding 8 players, today was unusual....

There are some excellent new features related to starting team matches that are coming soon in the web-client. I strongly suggest you give it another try after the new version is released. This aspect of the web-client (among many others) will be far superior to that which exists in the Windows client.

Keep an eye on the BBO news. An announcement will appear (likely within a week or so) when the new version of the web-client is made available.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[microcap]

 fred, on 2013-January-29, 18:43, said:

There are some excellent new features related to starting team matches that are coming soon in the web-client. I strongly suggest you give it another try after the new version is released. This aspect of the web-client (among many others) will be far superior to that which exists in the Windows client.

Keep an eye on the BBO news. An announcement will appear (likely within a week or so) when the new version of the web-client is made available.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

Ty Fred, I will look out for it. And thanks as always for BBO which brings such great joy to the bridge community!!