Re: What to do, what to do!

I thought about that, but the problem is, what happens when the time expires and the loser doesn't report? "Michael Sims" <mhsims@midsouth.rr.com> wrote in message news:5.1.0.14.0.20011213202035.035d2d08@pop-server.midsouth.rr.com... > 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. >