[Gerben42]

If someone would approach me with a reasonable request, I would listen.
If someone would approach me with accusations of taking away their time, I would ignore them and go about my business. If they then turn nasty, I would put them on enemy and report them to abuse@ or td@.

[jtfanclub]

zasanya, on Aug 12 2008, 02:43 AM, said:

jtfanclub,
I appreciate what you are doing.I have TD privileges.If you ever need any assistant please call me. One piece of friendly advise.Stop justifying yourself after you have made your point.As the ancient wisdom goes "The Koel stops singing in the rainy season because frogs make too much noise."

This is good advice. I cannot promise that I will take it to heart, but I will at least take it to head.

[NickRW]

In other hobbies where clubs or similar run events throughout the year, clubs local to one another tend to co-operate so that their dates don't clash. They consult one another. Nobody owns a particular slot - it is just usually handled with a bit of consideration (well, mostly).

Nick

[jillybean]

The original incident has nothing to do with poaching subs, deliberately sabotaging another’s tournament or encroaching on these imaginary time slots. The TD who was asked to cancel the tournament had scheduled theirs to start some
20-30 minutes before the other one. I think it is more to do with bullying and ego’s

[NickRW]

jillybean2, on Aug 12 2008, 07:19 PM, said:

The original incident has nothing to do with poaching subs, deliberately sabotaging another’s tournament or encroaching on these imaginary time slots. The TD who was asked to cancel the tournament had scheduled theirs to start some
20-30 minutes before the other one. I think it is more to do with bullying and ego’s

Well, if that is actually the case, then they should be reported and booted pronto

[jtfanclub]

NickRW, on Aug 12 2008, 04:50 PM, said:

jillybean2, on Aug 12 2008, 07:19 PM, said:

The original incident has nothing to do with poaching subs, deliberately sabotaging another’s tournament or encroaching on these imaginary time slots.  The TD who was asked to cancel the tournament had scheduled theirs  to start some
20-30 minutes before the other one.  I think it is more to do with bullying and ego’s

Well, if that is actually the case, then they should be reported and booted pronto

I think she also forgot to mention that he slashed her tires and cooked her pet rabbit.

[matmat]

jtfanclub, on Aug 12 2008, 05:20 PM, said:

I think she also forgot to mention that he slashed her tires and cooked her pet rabbit.

yes, but as there was no trophy awarded for these acts, she can't prove anything.

[Rossoneri]

JT, refer to my other thread some time ago about some other TD who kept whining to me even though my tourney was schedule to end before his and I was running IMPs and his tourney was MPs.

I think you are being very unfair to some of us, who do not have regular enough schedules to fit a dedicated slot on a weekly/daily basis. Note that not all of us play in the tourneys we direct and we do maintain our own blacklists too.

I would like to think that those with TD hosting rights have their own free will to schedule a tournament as and when they want. (Barring harassment issues as above-mentioned.)

[Michele13]

I am reading this string and shaking my head.
I run goulash tourneys - mostly individuals and sometimes pairs. During the past 2 weeks I have been told by TDs who operate paying goulash tourneys that 1/ I am not 'allowed' to schedule a goulash tourney within 20 minutes of either side of their paying tourney and 2/ FREE goulash tourneys should not be allowed.

I ignored them and did my thing. Then I noticed a surprising number of registrations with the same flag as that of one of the paying goulash TD's.
After 2 boards or so, they would disconnect. Some would return as subs, play one hand and disconnect again. I then selected every sub and we continued.

I know how to poach eggs, but subs? anyone have a recipe?
Cheers

[uday]

Please let me know which TD did this - via email uday@bridgebase or private message - ( along with, ideally, your username and the date of the most recent incident ) and we'll take it up with him. @bridgebase.com, of course.

Uday

[Old York]

Hi

A good friend who runs free quickie 4-5 board Indys contacted me

quote...
XXXX (Lobby): BBO_XX filed a formal complaint, i got warned....... they run 3 per hour, how can we not compete with that? LOL

How is this possible? Free tourneys should not be expected to schedule themselves to avoid pay-tourney or Private Club slots. There is no intention to clash, that should be obvious to all, so why send a warning.... this stinks

Tony (Duke of York)

[uday]

Read my prev post, and the thread ( short ver: TD shouldn't let himself be pushed around by other TDs)

[Old York]

Hi

New development, my good friend now reports sabotage.
It appears that someone may have hacked into his tourny and change registration restrictions to "private"
...... The thot plickens

I heard something very similar was happening to a different friend 6 months ago, mysterious changes to tourney setup

I will keep you all informed

Tony (Duke of York)

[fred]

Old York, on Sep 4 2008, 06:10 PM, said:

Hi

New development, my good friend now reports sabotage.
It appears that someone may have hacked into his tourny and change registration restrictions to "private"
...... The thot plickens

I heard something very similar was happening to a different friend 6 months ago, mysterious changes to tourney setup

I will keep you all informed

Tony (Duke of York) 

Hi Tony,

Whatever is going on, I don't think it is matter that concerns the general BBO membership.

If you do learn more please send the details to our abuse department (abuse@bridgebase.com) and please cc me (fred@bridgebase.com) as opposed to posting your findings in Forums.

If you want to let us know the name of your friend and the tournament number that was edited (via e-mail - not a Forums post), we are almost certainly in a better position than you are to get to the bottom of what happened.

Thanks,

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[Old York]

Hi Fred and others

Sorry if I boobed by posting, I think I made the mistake of believing that this was an exclusive section for TDs, and not for general bbo membership.

The above incidents have been reported now through the correct channels and the problem is resolved, many thanks to all concerned.

However, bbo tds need to be warned of the depths that some will stoop, and reminded to check and recheck their tournament setups, also to change their passwords frequently (My own password was hacked recently)

Best Wishes

Tony (Duke of York) e-mail Dukebox@live.se

[shintaro]

I am amazed (and slightly amused) that the setting up of 'Free' tourneys can generate this amount of feeling;

Does it really matter

[shintaro]

mm above posted to wrong thread

oh no its not is it just another page

ah well back to the reading room