[bhugi]

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An idea occurs to me regarding this and I thought it might be worthwhile to toss it out there for comment:

Many years ago, a neighborhood newspaper here in Chicago began to prominently post and report all residents who were caught with prostitutes. The effect of this was that the neighborhood went from being one of the worst to one of the best in a matter of 2 years, and prostitution was virtually eliminated. Noone wanted to make that paper list.

If we were to start a public list here of bad actors it might have some positive effect. People who exhibit particularly bad behavior within clearly defined categories (Perhaps: Rude to partner; Rude to Tourney Dirctor; Rude to Opponents and Consistently Runs out of Time could be starter categories for example) could be posted here. This would not be accusatory in nature... rather a simple listing by category.

Once someone has hit the list x # of times then appropriate actions would be taken. My guess is that making this list public and warning people that they will go on it may be enough to rein in some of the more outlandish behavior.

Oh... a side note: Last Saturday nite I had NO major incidents at my tourney. On the tourney card I wrote "Zero Tolerance for rude or unethical behavior. Anyone who argues a ruling with the Director shall have their scores reduced to average minus or Zero at the director's discretion." Not one ruling complaint!

um... mark them enemies, and told your friends.
Finally, they will find themselve unable to play in any tourney in bbo if they persist in that way. (every TD know they are bad and not allow them to join)

Let community desides the rules of community themselves. ;D
If all TD allow rude people to play, then it is part of the community :-

[Trpltrbl]

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You can bar anyone you like from your tourneys, no reasons needed.
I freely mark people as enemies if they are annoying in a tourney.

If a player causes you problems to the point that you are wasting a lot of time on him, best to issue one warning then kick the player (via a substitute). If partner complains too loudly, I would kick the partner as well, and flag them both as enemies.

If a player is disruptive, though, also ok to let me know - at abuse@bridgebase.com - i am fast to issue short suspensions to let people know we're serious.


Maybe we should allow a ZT invocation by each TD. Or at least, by each experienced TD. FG is here, so i will discuss w/him

Just what I do, make them enemies, which excludes them from my future tourneys. And after a period of time, and apologies, I mite let them back in. Any more infractions is automatic lifetime ban from my tourneys. All directors do what they can to try to make a good time for the players, and there r always some that try to make it not pleasant. So Far so good, at least for me. And I have noticed that clocked events tend to make it less pleasant for players. But I have many many players that make me happy, so I keep on going

Mike ;D

[uday]

Small bug in 3.5.3 / 3.5.4 ; Server will allow anyone into Ts created with these clients, even if they are on enemy list. Working on in. in the meantime, workaround: add names to a text file on your pc and use this list to "Exclude from your tourney"

You can export your Enemy list to this file, but i suggets you use a small list instead of the full blown enemy list

[hotShot]

Hi!

I think it would be a good idea if there some hints how to reakt on misbehavior.

I do not direct so many tourney, but twice in 3 Tourneys a player left just to call for good opps in the lobby seconds after that.
At the end of tourneys i often monitor a strange rise of connection problems.
Today i had to sub 1 round 3 players and from from round 7/8 i could hardly follow up the subbing requests.

What i would like to have is some tourney log that allows me to see whom i had to sub, what position he held at that time so that i can exclude people that are notorious running from the tourney before it's finished.

Have a nice day
hotShot

[EarlPurple]

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No need to create a master ban-list, i think - we dont have enough controls on who becomes a TD - basically, you ask, and we say "sure". But, a complaint from a seasoned TD certainly carries a lot of weight with me.

I think that running your own tourney lets you see how difficult life can be for the directors and makes you more understanding to directors when you yourself are playing.

There is certainly scope for logging bridge movies, which could perhaps also be modified to show time-stamps on each bid and play.