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mjt1 wrote: ↑06 May 2025, 20:03 I had a significant health event which took me away from BGA for a number of weeks. During this time, obviously all my games ran out of time, and so the opponents expelled me from the game. I get that.

What this means though is that my reputation goes to 0%. And when I am below 50% so many of the important features of the site are limited (no chat, only 5 games max). I cannot easily get back above 50% either because I am limited to 5 games, and each game can only boost my reputation by 1% or 3%. This means if I am playing asynchronously 1-2 moves per day, it will be probably multiple months before I can recover enough of my reputation to unlock these features.

That's my TED talk, I don't care if you don't care, but I didn't have any other way to share this information, which I think is too restrictive especially on Premium members.

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑07 May 2025, 04:35

mjt1 wrote: ↑06 May 2025, 20:03 I had a significant health event which took me away from BGA for a number of weeks. During this time, obviously all my games ran out of time, and so the opponents expelled me from the game. I get that.

What this means though is that my reputation goes to 0%. And when I am below 50% so many of the important features of the site are limited (no chat, only 5 games max). I cannot easily get back above 50% either because I am limited to 5 games, and each game can only boost my reputation by 1% or 3%. This means if I am playing asynchronously 1-2 moves per day, it will be probably multiple months before I can recover enough of my reputation to unlock these features.

That's my TED talk, I don't care if you don't care, but I didn't have any other way to share this information, which I think is too restrictive especially on Premium members.

As the other two posts said, there are some very short games you can use to rebuild your karma quickly if you are willing to play real-time. You don't have to like the game. It's just a tool to get your karma back. You're farming karma like you farm resources in some video games. The only question is how badly do you want your karma back? Are you willing to endure an hour or two of real-time games you may not like to get it back up? Or hey, you might actually like one of those quick games. Then it won't be as much of a chore.