[hallway]

AISHA - rejected - no !! To be rejected is to be turned away. A daily occurrance to be sure - BUT - you were accepted , only to be found to have skills far beyond those of the average BILlie - you were given the greatest accolade we can bestow - you GRADUATED.

It is the BIL's singular goal to have all our members GRADUATE - your name will be forever amongst the earliest of these.

We dream of the day when one of our Graduating members makes it into the Top Flight .

Aim high that could be you !!!

You could start a trend - the BIL could become famous as a breeding ground for Top Flighters

[McBruce]

Perhaps soon someone will start a tournament series that uses deals which are set up to find out who the experts are:

--restricted choice situations will never work
--any hand which comes down to a choice between a squeeze and a finesse will always be makable only by the finesse
--hands on which the expert might consider a strategic cuebid will be opposite hands which will never stop bidding once they hear that specific cuebid
--liberal preempts that experts only have the guts to try will be inserted into hands where even a rookie would double and get 1100 without much effort

No, please -- I'm not serious!

[spwdo]

McBruce, on Apr 13 2004, 02:34 AM, said:

No, please -- I'm not serious!

hi

ok i trust you on this one lol:)

[hotShot]

McBruce, on Apr 12 2004, 05:34 PM, said:

Perhaps soon someone will start a tournament series that uses deals which are set up to find out who the experts are:

--restricted choice situations will never work
--any hand which comes down to a choice between a squeeze and a finesse will always be makable only by the finesse
--hands on which the expert might consider a strategic cuebid will be opposite hands which will never stop bidding once they hear that specific cuebid
--liberal preempts that experts only have the guts to try will be inserted into hands where even a rookie would double and get 1100 without much effort

No, please -- I'm not serious!

And i thought i played those all the time

[sfbp]

a quick suggestion (maybe this needs to be cross-posted to the software suggestions/discussions section, as a newbie here I dunno how to do this)

there is a genuine problem with rejecting people, especially when a whole BUNCH show up at once (incidentally the close and reject all option frequently doesnt work!), it is one of time. Poor table host cannot do so many things at once.

But if he had a LIST of refusal reasons, I imagine it might help.

Some people are just rude, and it wouldn't help those.

Some players need to be refused, and it wouldn't help that situation.

2 more thoughts:

a. good players should be honest about their skill level (it is really silly to reject someone simply because their skill level says "novice" when they are just being coy)

b. blacklisted (enemy) players should be automatically rejected - though there is no reason to tell them why.

Stephen

[dogsbreath]

JRG is correct in his note on the 'rejection' problem.. some of you may not have experienced this, but when y get a flood of requests it is currently impossible to do anything in the way of giving explanation to those refused.. Setting table invisible etc doesnt help much of the time ..because often dont get enough warning of a player leaving ..or dont remember (my problem). The 'accept/reject' dialogue box seems to always have 'focus' ..so other actions are difficult. Also puts host in position of having to choose.. Also I rarely remember that I have become host 'cos of the original host has left. Dont know what the possible solutions are, from a software point of view. I would prefer to leave my table open (unrestricted) but this has caused problems also ..i have a list of people that i dont encourage to join 'cos i know they leave abruptly if they dislike something .
I also feel uneasy if I dont accept the first player 'cos a latter request looks more interesting regds Dog