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For FF debates the other side automatically wins. For both FFs it is an automatic tie. There is no reason to vote here because of course it will come down to one side winning.

Apparently users cannot block moderators. I just doublechecked, and indeed I cannot block other moderators.

Your Russian.  What do you think about this?

I’m not sure this would help. If people are forfeiting rounds it means something came up so they don’t have the time (in which losing the debate and the corresponding elo is a penalty enough) or it means that they outright don’t care about the debate. If it’s the latter, than they’re also not going to care about any penalty assigned to them, because these people tend not to stick around for long anyways.

I think the most important question here is: Why do some users create an account only to stop caring about it and how can we get more users to stay?

This one might be a little more time consuming to implement, but a better text editor with more options for different styles of text (font, size,  color, etc.) could make organization of rounds much clearer.

How about more rewards for users who stick around to participate in more debates and more rewards for those who do well in them? 

• We definitely need to have some form of discouragement for forfeits
  
• We need more strict separation between rated and "normal" debates
  
• We need a feature to "surrender"
  
• We need to handle situations when participants get banned
  

"What are the three numbers on the back of the card?"

read title. I am curious about how you would value a crypto currency to k ow you are getting a fair deal.

• Updated profile medals page
  
• Made some tiny changes to profile info page
  
• Fixed a couple minor issues

Would you be open to accepting volunteers to help with the website and, if so, what kind of qualifications would they need?

I'm nowhere near qualified to do much of, well, anything when it comes to programming yet, but I'd love to help at a time in the future when I'm more capable.

Rephrase: Do you have a guess for when the group messaging will be complete?

I understand the issue with not having enough time. If you don't have time, you don't have time not much more to it than that. The site is free and a personal project you chose to do of your own volition, which we are greatful. I think the idea of the patreon is great, I am more just curious if you had like higher tiers other than the 3 dollars a month one if that would incentivize maybe a deeper interest in putting more of your valuale time into some of these developments?

I am aware that you do put a lot of effort into fixng bugs. Some of those other features are pretty nifty as well, specifically having wallpapers and backgrounds, I always loved doing that on myspace back when it was big. 

It is good to know the code is ready for group messaging! That is one of the core features this website was missing in my opinion that DDO had. It will make mafia games much easier as well, and coordinating group events that don't neccesitate forums. Do you by chance have a tenative time line for the group messaging system being implemented or are you playing it by ear?

Coming from DDO where there was literally no effort put into development for several years, I can say I am very greatful for the time and effort. It's good to know that there are still developments being worked on and not being maintained. I hope this forum didn't come across as me being ungrateful for any of it. On the contrary I am trying to say I'd be willing to pay more money to reward such efforts as long as it seemed there was a significant effort being made into developments from the patreon costs. 

I think there should be a bigger "reward" for people who contribute to their patreon. I like your idea but I think there should be more of a reward. Anyone could give a suggestion that isn't a patreon and something the suggestions given are nearly impossible to implement (Mike was talking about how group PM's will take a long time to do in general).

I think there should be a credits page (a page dedicated to Patreon supporters). Right now if you donate money, you get coins added your account. I think there should be more of a reward system for Patreon that distinguishes their support.

• Provide more interesting ways to spend credits, be it some decorations, just as you suggested, dedicated "supporters" website's areas (I believe Reddit has something like that) or maybe things like payment for votes, so that people can pay their credits to others to vote on the debates and therefore those people that get paid, can do the same for their debates and so on, so maybe it would make sense to have it as an internal currency, in a way. But also credits could be earned via on-site achievements and whatnot. But that's just a random idea, haven't thought properly about it. Anyway, I do realize that it needs to be properly designed.
  
• Redesign Patreon tiers and provide different bonuses depending on the tier.
  
• Check if Patreon provides a way to notify the server about the changes and have a dedicated credits page here, as you suggested. Or something of the kind. It all needs proper thinking. 

I think you have a great idea with the website, and the patreon is also a good idea. I have donated myself a few times to the patreon, but have stopped because it seems like the sole purpose of the patreon is to just float hosting costs. How interested would you be in making useful updates to the website based on member suggestions? If this was the case I would be a lot more willing to donate more consistently to the site if I thought something was being done to improve the site rather than just maintain it's existence

Not at all an urgent matter, but it would be great to have a feature where mods can over-ride the voting period in the situation that a member is banned or a concession was made.