BrainKing Knowledge Base

As a big fan of an artificial intelligence and automatic systems (my dream is to live in a luxury house with its own brain), I like to add features which make BrainKing less dependent on my input and more self-sustaining entity. One of the last parts of the site, which had to be completely processed manually, was the system of interviews. And, in order to make our life easier, the improvement of the day solves this problem once and forever:

• A new link Interviews has been added to the Information section of the left menu column, so the Interviews page is no longer buried under the discussion boards and can be easily accessed from any page.


• The interview moderator (which is currently pauloaguia) can select a new user to be interviewed and add his/her to the list displayed at the Interviews page. When it is done, the interview entry is marked open and every registered user can submit his own questions for the interviewee (using a simple form).


• Each open interview has a deadline - after that, BrainKing automatically switches the interview to the answer mode, which means that no more questions can be added/modified and the interviewed person starts to submit the answers.


• The answers are not visible to public until all questions are addressed. When it is done, the interview moderator makes the final check and if everything is all right, he releases the completed interview.

I hope this change will make the interview process smoother and without any more terrible delays (caused by me, of course ). And it is allowed to use BrainKing smileys at the questions or answers.

In order to make BrainKing fellowships more flexible, a new rank called Little Boss has been recently added. As the name suggests, it should work as an assistant to the Big Boss who still remains as the fellowship owner. The purpose of a Little Boss is to give other members all necessary permissions to keep the fellowship alive, even in case of the Big Boss inactivity, because fellowships which are not maintained, are good candidates for a deletion. The following list summarizes the functionality:

What a Little Boss can do:

• Invite new members to the fellowship.
• Accept or reject membership requests.
• Change a rank of every member except the Big Boss.
• Create game teams and change team ranks of all members.
• Create fellowship tournaments, ponds and stairs.
• Send team match invitations to other fellowships and accept/reject them.
• Send group messages to all fellowship or team members.

And what a Little Boss cannot do:

• Change the fellowship name, description or flag.
• Change the Big Boss.
• Delete the fellowship.

I hope that I haven't forgotten to mention some features. Furthermore, the Little Boss rank is the first candidate for a Big Boss replacement if BrainKing decides that it should be done. Practically it means that if a Big Boss is not active for more than 60 days, BrainKing automatically promotes the Little Boss to the Big one and the former Big Boss would be degraded to a manager.

And yes, only one Little Boss can be defined for a fellowship.