[scrawnybob]

hi all

I'm following this thread with interest - as I clearly recognise that password sharing is an issue for all forums, I'm not sure we suffer anymore or any less than other sites generally

I can definately see how on the face of it an invite list would seem to be the best solution ... If not seeing the amount of admin for it ;-)

seriously the pacific games are horendous to organise between them and us - alot of time if spent

this is why most sites dont want to have invite lists and from what I gather they are also planning to change

I am simply not going to spend 3 days a week sorting our, submitting, resubmitting lists, losing players, getting players re re re contact me etc - its a total pain ... and thats for a relatively small amount of players ... I wouldnt even want to think what FT game would be like

that doesnt mean that Im not concerned about the freeroll password sharing - but

generally you would be very very suprised how many members who have legit posts etc still dont really read rules / send me info anything like on time etc and then expect me to magic them into a game an hour beforehand

I havent got any solutions - other than I know running an invite list for all the games ... isnt going to be the solution ;-)

I will be sorting the screen names in profiles thing - as someone rightly pointed out there are alot more legit members in the games than maybe people realise as they have alot of different screen names

I think we may make the password situation an if you got the password PM great - if you joined in the last 24hrs ... you'll have to wait for the next one

but in all honestly the last joining members who post halfway decent are NOT the problem

the problem is 2 or 3 members who have 10+ posts who give out the passwords on a serious scale ... I banned one member I caught red handed and they were probably a member who would have been considers fairly OK (certainly not a 10 marginal poster)

cheers scrawnybob