Richard, I propose to delete the player <a href="http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/info/player.jsp?plid=22464">Epic Fail</a>

Richard, I propose to delete the player Epic Fail.

He signs on for every single monthly tournament, in all games, plays exactly one move, and resigns (~200 games)

It basically reduces all monthly tournaments to three participants.

Aside from that, I cannot understand why anyone with intelligence above a cockroach would find that interesting?

I agree, he should be booted. But if you want Richard to take action, I suggest you send him a direct message.

When I first saw the nick, my antennae twitched...

I am proud to say I am the first one to lose to this troll! It feels good to lose a game on purpose just to spoil his mission (whatever that may be!)

Then we got that settled. An Idiot is worse than an Epic Fail. I wonder... Did looser already played him?

well, i think players have never been deleted before. I think when his ratings drop beneath -800 he'll stop his 'tactics'...

"the lowest possible rating in championship league 3" - that's his attempt...

Hopefully Epic Fail's attempts will be met with a plethora of timeouts, preventing his score from dropping very low. This will cause him to fail at failing, changing him into Epic Win and he'll disappear in a puff of violet smoke.

... octarine smoke I would hope ...

(I hope I translated correctly back to english, the 8th rainbow color from the disc world novels)

Ahhhh yes, the color of Magic as it were. I am not so sure Epic Fail has many magical qualities though. He reminds me of Happy Kid only quieter. I think Richard has, in fact, banned players who were truly obnoxious but I could be wrong. Happy Kid was removed I believe. Get Ka4to on it, that seems to help.

But if he fails at failing, isn't that even more of an epic fail?

Ow, it's all twisty.

It is not simply to ban player. This is free server and there is no move limit for players. When I ban somebody, he register again and play with another nick. I can do only two things:

1. Block IP addresses. But it is dangerous. For example player Epic Fail play from Beijing (China) and he is using more than 20 IP adresses and at least two players from Beijing is using at least one the same IP.

2. I can limit players with number of open rating games.

True, they can register again. Still, I think banning DOES serve a purpose. It will prevent thes players from achieving certain "goals", like getting the highest/lowest rating in one or more games. I think many of the players who ruin our fun here will be discouraged by being banned.

An alternative solution would be give players negative points for misbehaviour and forbid players with a certain ammount of negative points to play new rated games until, eg, he sportively plays a given number of games.

Or we could just ignore him, post no more about it and he will get bored and go away.

Well I'll stop joining every tournaments, I think my rating is low enough now, let's meet in championships!

btw, this tournament seems buggy:

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/tournament/tournament.jsp?trnid=chess.mc.2010.dec.1.22

maybe that's a good moment to delete the account, right?

Gerald's case is strange too...

I agree with ignoring him, but only after we've let him know he's a complete spanner.

Very well, then.

ATTN: Epic Fail! General consensus is that THOU ART A SPANNER.

I now dust off my hands and bid you adieu.

Also, I do so need to read Discworld.