Re: What to do, what to do!

Actually I have no idea where to start on something like this... This is going to be challenge! "Todd Williamsen" <todd@williamsen.net> wrote in message news:20011214022635.30703.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > 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. > > > >