BrainKing Knowledge Base

Many things changed since the BrainKing beginning in October 2002 but one of the most important source of information (never changed) was the list of benefit of a paid membership.

Well, actually, there was no such list before, just a short note at the Paid Membership page and a very outdated table comparing different membership levels. And now, at least the second sub-page of the mentioned page (called Details) has been completely rewritten to reflect the contemporary status.

Please find it here: Paid Membership / Details

This is just a not officially released version because it is likely that I have omitted some details (who is supposed to remember ALL members only features?). If someone things that something important is missing, please let me know and I will add it.

And some small screenshots should be added too, I guess.

BrainKing has a good protection against robots who sometimes attempt to create fake accounts with links to porn, illegal or other types of inacceptable sites - as already described several times in the past, all new account requests are manually checked and accepted/rejected by administrators, so the chance of recognizing a robot activity is really high. However, when a malicious human, which is usually much smarter than an ordinary robot, wants to misuse BrainKing services for his own profit, it is often detected after a certain "bad" action is made. Luckily, there is not much harm to do since BrainKing does not allow a user to embed dangerous HTML tags or scripting code to any kind of messages, so there is no reason to be afraid of being infected by adware, spyware or other types of "wares" just be viewing BrainKing pages.

The point of this article is to bring an enlightenment to situations where a fake BrainKing account sends tens of messages of "I am a poor African girl and I need your help" type (it is also known as Nigerian Letter). The best way to protect oneself (and others too) is:

• Never click on suspicious links contained in a personal message from an unknown sender.
• Report this event to me as soon as possible. BrainKing administration console contains a functionality which, when it's triggered by an administrator, instantly disables the offender's account and removes all messages sent by this user from the database (which means that the messages disappear from message boxes of all attacked recepients).
• Never panic. Such things happen and the best protection against them is to know what to do and, which is more important, what NEVER to do.

By the way, there is some very interesting information to read about modern Nigerian spam and botnets (what is a botnet?).

I have just added a static version of the BrainKing Chat Box. Static means that it contains no JavaScript and does not refresh itself automatically. It is mostly a redundant feature but I have decided to make it anyway, because:

• Some web browsers can have problems with JavaScript code or JavaScript is disabled in them for security reasons.


• Some people want to chat without displaying the chat box at the top of all BrainKing pages.

However, if the standard BrainKing Chat Box is working for you, I do not recommend to use the static one, because:

• As I have already said, there is no automatic refresh (unlike the JavaScript version which is automatically refreshed every 2 seconds), so if you want to see new messages, you must refresh the page manually or click the Submit button.


• Neither special codes (/a, /m, /r etc.) nor smart "click-and-fill" features work in the static version.


• Any new features will be added to the JavaScript version at first. They might be reflected at the static one later, but it is not guaranteed.

Oh, I have almost forgotten - the mentioned page can be found at the left menu column, Statiscics section, and is called Chat room. It is also the only page (except BrainKing home page) where the JavaScript chat box is not displayed.