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When did you send a PM?

It's done randomly, not based on what the participants want. I have gotten paired with people I would prefer not to play with as well, but it's not my call, nor is it Underwood's. If you and NWJ don't get a game in, and he doesn't confirm the ghosting, I'm going to need you to screencap your PM.

Underwood and I will discuss this before the start of next month. In the meantime, my statement sticks - it's done randomly, not based on what participants want.

Quite simply, I don't like trusting someone's word when it comes to ghosting. Anyone can just make up text and send it to me in the correct format, and I'm of the opinion that if someone can't take the 2-3 minutes necessary to save and upload a screencap, they don't need the points. I distinctly recall Red mentioning in the previous topic not to trust a person's word when they say they've been ghosted, and that's exactly what I'm doing. Now that said, I realize that things happen and sometimes people (especially younger members) can't screencap for whatever reason. If NWJonathan comes on and confirms the ghosting (or otherwise doesn't post here or PM Underwood or myself to defend himself), then Red doesn't need to screencap. If he denies the charges, however, then I need to see some screencaps. I meant to elaborate on that in my previous post, and for that, Red, I apologize. In regards to last month, I didn't receive a PM from you and you didn't post in the topic, so unless you PM'd Underwood about it (in which case, I trust his judgement completely), you can't blame your opponent for not attempting to make contact with you.

Screencapping (or Print Screening) allows you to save a snapshot of whatever your screen looks like at that moment to the clipboard. You can paste it in Paint or Photoshop or something and save it as a picture file.

I won 5-3, using a much-needed Plot.

I won 5-0

Quote from: LordZardeck on February 26, 2012, 09:25:18 PM

Quote from: Alex_Olijar on February 26, 2012, 05:02:11 PM

Quote from: Red on February 26, 2012, 03:49:23 PM

This will be the second month in a row I was paired with an opponet that makes no effort to contact me. Last month him not making any effort to play with me cost me a placing. I don't want it to happen again. I've been active. I shouldn't have to screencap a pm.

You could just auto-save your PMs like everyone else does instead of screen capping??

You can auto-save your sent pms??? how???

Profile -> Account Settings then on that screen modify profile -> Personal messaging
second to last check box

oh noes! Thank you SOO much. I've been wanting to do that for 4 years! :p

I defeated Praeceps 5-3.

I won 5-1.

yeah over an opponet that's sick and not at full capcity.