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Paul Corrigan 🇲🇾 (paulc2024)
I've just played a rude player who also disappeared when he was mathematically certain to lose and now want to block future challenges from him. How can I do that? (I've tried looking under my name at the top of the screen but there is no option there). Thanks.
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Backgammon Hub Admin
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Soruche Saajedi (dopestick)
good stuff thank you for letting us know
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Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer]
Desa Connolly (descon), Denis-George Constantin (playhunter), Alex Zamanian (z), Soruche Saajedi (dopestick)
I have added some new features in this area. You can now block challenges from certain players. It's one of the options when you decline an instant challenge match.
During a match, you can:
- Mute chat until the end of the match (existing feature)
- Disable chat completely for the match
- Block chat from a player permanently (including future matches)
- Block and report a player
You can manage players you've by choosing "Blocked Players" in the dropdown under your username top-right.
There might be the odd bug so please report any issues, but hopefully this will help combat annoying and abusive players!
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Alex Zamanian (z)
Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer] That's great, thanks! I actually haven't come across any abusive players yet, generally people seem quite nice on the site (with a few annoying people thrown in :) ), but it'll be nice to have the option to block and report if I do come across one.
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Soruche Saajedi (dopestick)
we needa a feature to report people on here, i've had a couple racists lose their minds over a game recently and there doesn't seem to be a way to report it. chat logs are all still up so should be easy to investigate.
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Alex Zamanian (z)
If the site continues to grow, it does seem like this will be necessary eventually.
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Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer]
Desa Connolly (descon) is this in the ladder or instant challenge?
If ladder I'm not sure if this possible - there is already a rule that a player has to play someone else in the ladder before challenging the same player again.
If instant challenge, I suppose this option could be added.
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Desa Connolly (descon)
Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer]: its in the instant challenges.