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I’m experiencing a situation in which a Backgammon player is repeatedly taking a seat at my hosted 3-point Backgammon games, but then refusing to going the game by rejecting play. And then I have to start a new hosted game, he does the same thing, and I don’t end up playing with anyone. This has occurred three times in a row within two minutes, and perhaps it is a technical glitch, but it looks quite deliberate.

I won’t disclose their player ID, but is there way I can ban this player from sitting at any of my hosted games so I don’t need to go through this nonsense with him? I’m new to BGA, and both first Backgammon games were stymied through tech glitches (one bug report submitted on the first, a second bug report to be submitted for the second). So I have yet to actually play a Backgammon game to completion with this new “blocking” strategy on my hosted games.

Aha… I may have figured this out on my own in the minutes since I posted this question to the Forums. There may no way to block a particular player, but perhaps I can give a red thumbs down on the three games this individual joined, then immediately bailed on. If that option is available, of course, for a game that never really started.

But now I must figure out in the interface how to review my game history as I’ve closed all three chats associated with each of the three games.

Red thumbs are site-wide, not for a specific game or table.

BertSierra wrote: ↑01 July 2025, 12:18 Aha… I may have figured this out on my own in the minutes since I posted this question to the Forums. There may no way to block a particular player, but perhaps I can give a red thumbs down on the three games this individual joined, then immediately bailed on. If that option is available, of course, for a game that never really started.

But now I must figure out in the interface how to review my game history as I’ve closed all three chats associated with each of the three games.

You can give a red thumb on the user's profile.