People keep deleting my games!

emerald

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08 Oct 06 10:38

emerald

Joined: 14 Sep 04
Moves: 10967

08 Oct 06 10:38

Hi, I'm not sure if anyone else has posted on his already, but I just want to say I find it quite irritating when players accept my game in open invites and then delete it minutes later. Why do they do this? I think I'm getting a new game and someone else decides to just delete my invite. It's happened twice this week. Anyone else got any thoughts on this?

rmacken

Joined: 18 May 05
Moves: 38549

08 Oct 06 10:51

Originally posted by emerald
Hi, I'm not sure if anyone else has posted on his already, but I just want to say I find it quite irritating when players accept my game in open invites and then delete it minutes later. Why do they do this? I think I'm getting a new game and someone else decides to just delete my invite. It's happened twice this week. Anyone else got any thoughts on this?

did you not see the name and shame directed to you in the help (or was it chess) forum??

Thats why no-one wants to play your games

Dr Strangelove

Joined: 22 Aug 05
Moves: 26450

08 Oct 06 10:54

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Originally posted by emerald
Hi, I'm not sure if anyone else has posted on his already, but I just want to say I find it quite irritating when players accept my game in open invites and then delete it minutes later.

It happened to me regularly [in fact it's my pet hate on this site - jointly with several other things] I also posted a few times about it - I still think if someone accepts a game from open invites and then deletes it that they should lose a percentage of rating points.

Some other jerks [who shall remain nameless, but have admitted doing so] accept the games and immediately delete them either as a wind-up or simply because they are morons.

The standard excuse is that they accept it and after looking at your profile they don't fancy their chances, so they act like cowards and run.
Occasionally people do it by accident and send a message which is fair enough.

I have a "Timewasters list" which I add the perpetrators to.

emerald

Joined: 14 Sep 04
Moves: 10967

08 Oct 06 12:13

Wow, no I didn't! In fact I didn't know there was such a thing. How can I read this and see who wrote it? I am not in the habit of timing people out ...

Irax

Joined: 06 Aug 05
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08 Oct 06 12:43

I've accepted a game from the Open Invites before and then the originator deleted it! So it works both ways.

emerald

Joined: 14 Sep 04
Moves: 10967

08 Oct 06 13:09

OK, thanks, this seems to happen quite a lot.

wormwood

If Theres Hell Below

We're All Gonna Go!

Joined: 10 Sep 05
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08 Oct 06 14:04

Originally posted by emerald
Hi, I'm not sure if anyone else has posted on his already, but I just want to say I find it quite irritating when players accept my game in open invites and then delete it minutes later. Why do they do this? I think I'm getting a new game and someone else decides to just delete my invite. It's happened twice this week. Anyone else got any thoughts on this?

who cares. it's not a big deal, post another one. it takes maybe two seconds to do that.

Dr Strangelove

Joined: 22 Aug 05
Moves: 26450

08 Oct 06 14:25

Originally posted by wormwood
who cares. it's not a big deal, post another one. it takes maybe two seconds to do that.

Because sometimes you don't discover it has been deleted for a while.
Some people don't sit waiting for their games.

Palynka

Upward Spiral

Halfway

Joined: 02 Aug 04
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08 Oct 06 15:55

Originally posted by emerald
Why do they do this?

For fun.