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I've unfortunately timed out of 2 games recently and my karma is 58% despite the fact that I have perhaps 1000 thumbs ups. Now I can't talk publicly and I get kicked out of games before they start. This seems quite unfair and unkarmic.

Right now there is only one real way to flag a person out of a future game, and that is with a red thumb. People get red thumbs for timing out, for being jerks, or playing really slow, or for other reasons (including bad reasons.) For me, it is important that people play reasonably quickly. Really. ...

I suppose we could have another metric called something like "conceded games", and when it gets really high like, say, 40% or more then it becomes a problem? This site does an incredible job discouraging bad behavior in several other ways by simply bringing it to light. Concessions could b...

Ahh, that's it! Sorry I was too dumb to look for it before posting.

Thank you.

I admit that I don't really like the doorbell sound, to the extent that I can't leave it on (it also annoys people around me!) So why not have a little sound library and the user can select which sound he or she would like to be played when there is an alert? I can imagine some very subtle, pleasing...

The way I've played, the moon and the jack are totally independent. So in a best case you can get the jack and everything else and your up (or down, as we play it) 10 while everyone else is down (or up) 26. It adds a dimension and also gives some importance to A K Q of diamonds, and diamond tricks g...

In chess, you can always resign the game and take a loss. It doesn't seem like any of the games here allow that, but maybe they should?

That way if someone gets called away and must leave a game, at least they can lose and not make the other person wait for a timeout.

Whenever I have played hearts the Jack of Diamonds is always a desirable card to capture. In the way we play, it would be worth +10 points (pushes you back up) and therefore adds a very interesting dynamic to the game: you need high diamonds! Has anyone played this way, and have we thought of doing ...

I just want to shout out to everyone how much I love this site. IMO it has the stuff that a game site SHOULD have, meaning: awesome functionality. The rating system, the seriousness that you put on both conduct and game follow through, the game mechanics themselves, all fantastic. Graphics and a few...