Re: What to do, what to do!

At 08:02 PM 12/13/2001 -0600, Todd Williamsen wrote: [...]

The problem is that abusers of the site will report games that they have not played and screws up the stats of the players that he supposedly played against. Now, the ultimate solution would be to have a way where when the winner reports the game it should also be authenticated by the loser as well. So you would have two people reporting in order for the game to be actually recorded in the database. I am asking You All Knowing Ones what would be a solution to this and how would I implement it? [...]

This is probably what I'd do. Create a "pending" table that stores reported games that have not been verified. When a user reports a game, they choose another user as the loser and then a record is written into the pending table, and an email is sent to the loser informing him that he has a pending game to verify. Create an interface that allows people to view games pending verification. From there a user that was reported as the loser can verify a pending game by entering their password. Once this is done, the pending item is moved into the verified games. Setup a timed job to notify you of pending games that are older than a certain number of days, so you can see what the holdup is and delete them out if necessary.