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Dealing with abusive players

    Just as in real life, there are people on FIBS who are rude, offensive, or even abusive. Some players will leave a game just before losing and refuse to finish the match. Other players send obscene or abusive messages.

    I regularly receive emails from upset MacFIBS users asking me to resolve a dispute; there is nothing I can do administratively to help since I have no role or access to the server and its user database. However, there are some features of MacFIBS that help deal with problem players.

    Players who leave a match to avoid losing (known as "droppers") can be particularly frustrating, but there's little that can be done about it. Just don't play with a dropper again. You may want to use the MacFIBS player notes feature or color coding to keep track of people you don't wish to play again.

Using Gag and Blind

    You can suppress all chatting messages from abusive players by checking "Gag" in that player's info window.

    The "Blind" command prevents a player from watching your matches.

    Note that the Gag and Blind settings are only in effect while you and the offending player are logged in. A future release of MacFIBS will store these settings and automatically enforce them across sessions (as an early version of MacFIBS used to do.)

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