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Perhaps you aren't aware that there is only one administrator on Fibs and that is Patti.  She decides those kinds of things. 

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Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are
wonderful. - Ann Landers

Got up to 10 saved matches so can't start a new one? Here's what to do.
1. DON'T PANIC.
2. In your command line type <show saved>. This will list your matches with one * for those online and ** for those who are online and ready. Try to resume these.
3. Be aware that saved matches are only saved for a few days, currently 2-3 weeks, so wait a bit and your count will go down.
4. In future take steps to avoid droppers. These are likely to be found in these categories.
(a) Players with bad reps. Learn to use repbot before playing strangers.
(b) Players with very low experience, under 1,000 works for me, set your own limit.
(c) Players on mobile phones. Use a client that shows this, ideally javafibs.
(d) Players with high saved counts. Use command <show savedcount username> for this.
5. Do these things and you will quickly learn to avoid droppers. Players who casually play anybody without making these checks tend to get a high savedcount quickly. Don't let this be you.
6. Don't whine about it in shouts. Other fibsters do not give a **** what you think about it.
7. Enjoy the game!

The deal is this:

I expected there to be an awkward transition, and that's exactly what we're seeing.

What will happen is that over time, players who are inclined to drop will be stopped dead in their tracks pretty quickly.  Players who are inclined to finish their games will encounter far fewer droppers since those droppers will quickly lose their capacity to create new games.  My expectation is that after a couple of weeks the situation will stabilize.  Responsible players will pretty much stop being plagued by droppers.

And yes, there is a learning process involved here.  In many ways, I'm forcing people to learn to do due diligence on unknown opponents.  Use "show savedcount PLAYER" to see if they have a pile of games.  Check their experience.  Check their host. 

If it doesn't stabilize in a reasonable way, I'll do something else.  It's a pretty difficult problem to solve... the best I can do is try things and refine them until I something that works well.

12. message username Hi, we have a match in standby when are we going to finish it?