Hey admins... if anyone is listening... some jokester is hijacking people's names in the lobby and turning them all into "Ginas" or "Testicles." Weird sense of humor, amusing to some I suppose; but pretty irksome to those of us who want to play real games with real people. Can you do something about this ASAP please?
Many thanks to the Lexulous team for all the hard work, and the improvements in New Lexulous that have become apparent in the past few weeks. Here is something that I think many players would like to see implemented: The ability to accept or reject players who come to one's table. (This was a feature of the old Lexulous, but these days it seems as if, when you set a table, you are obliged either to play anyone who joins it or else delete the game.) If it ends up not being possible to accept-or-reject, how about bulking up Censor so that people whom one has censored can't join one's game? As far as I can see, at present they are able to do so. Thanks again...
Hear, hear. This feature is one of the last remaining bits needed to make the new Lexulous work as well as the old site (with all the bells and whistles that have been added). We all know change is difficult, but by now this new place is feeling a lot like home! Just please give us the ability to accept or reject players from our tables... tyvm
@roymccoy
"... and when you try to replace the real word Fibula
with a non-existent word like 'Fibia,'
your thinking is hazy like a Nebula...
I can't think of a good rhyme for Fibia.
Except Tibia."
@funkeymonkey so... if you play a higher-rated player and win, your rating will increase noticeably. If you play a lower-rated player and lose, your rating will decrease noticeably. But if you beat the lower rated player or lose to the higher rated player, the change in your rating (and in theirs) is more negligible. If you care about these things, check the advice about expected rating changes that the game gives you in the window that opens up when a game invitation is pending.
@betterlate1-0 Indeed, this happened overnight. Personally I don't really feel the need for these tabs but perhaps some do. How about adding one for "I strongly suspect you have an anagram program running in the background" .... since that seems to be an oft-expressed sentiment in these games! 
@middlechild7 I was pretty unhappy with this new format too, at first (several months ago). But, having played under it pretty often recently, I have come to like it a lot. It offers almost all the features we were used to in the old Lexulous, though they aren't always in the same "place." And there are some things they did not use to have: for instance, you can see a much larger number of your past games than used to be possible.
Here is the most relevant point: Going back to the old format is not possible, NOT because of any decision made by Lexulous itself. The old game was based on an old Internet technology (I think it was "Flash"?) that has now been phased out almost everywhere else. Most browsers no longer support it. So if they had not gone and rebuilt Lexulous from the ground up, there would be no Lexulous any more. Personally I am grateful they did, and I am quite impressed by the amount of work that went into what is, after all, a free game!
(as always, "your mileage may vary")...
@mistertoad I see nothing wrong with this, but on the other hand I don't see that it solves the problem, if the problem is "too many posts about travel and customs, and not enough about the game." No matter what the category is, if they keep posting this stuff it is going to be there in the "recent posts" list every day. From my perspective this makes no difference, because my usual mode of interaction with the forum is to look below the lobby and note the recent posts. Category doesn't seem to make a difference. I suppose maybe it does, for people who use the forum differently.
@terrijay (and actually @betterlate1-0 and @Mistertoad and @ everyone) it would astonish me if Lexulous was able to institute any kind of reliable anti-cheating measures. Especially given their relatively limited resources. One factor is the wide variety of types of games and players (e-mail; snail's-pace live games; rapidfire timed games, etc.). Another is the fact that one player's "obvious cheat" is another's "how can you be so sure?". I have had people accuse me of certainty with playing at a rate that could not possibly be unaided. All I was doing was thinking up my move during the other player's turn, and typing my letters quickly when my turn came. Other players clobber me consistently because they take the game a lot more seriously and know huge numbers of obscure words (some people actually do play competitive scrabble in real-world tournaments). Good luck on getting any real curbs on cheating put in place!
@jrp32 yes. I chose the "olive" avatar and yet I think I show up as a microphone.
@stephanie-schmitt I am only a player, not a Lexulous employee or any kind of insider, but it does seem that in general, the number of rating points one gains or loses after a game depends on the relative standings of the two players. Thus, if you beat an opponent whose rating is much lower than yours you will only receive a small ratings bump. If you beat someone with a higher rating, on the other hand, they give you more "credit" because you faced more of a challenge. It's far from a perfect system but it makes a certain amount of sense. I have not looked at your record but if you check some of those games you have played you may see that relative ratings did help determine the points lost/gained.
@englerman The wordfinder site I consulted says:
Is Que a Scrabble Word?
Answer: No
Despite the fact that it would be a useful word for the game, “que” is not a valid word to play in Scrabble. It commonly stands for “Quebec.” It is also the Spanish word for “what,” an appropriate question to ask when one finds out that the word isn’t legal in Scrabble.
YMMV...
@carol-ann-nasta I think EVERYONE responding on this thread--with the exception, I guess of @bonhi (whose response above was not very helpful either)-- has been a PLAYER, not staff. We have all been in the forums helping each other try to figure out how the newer version of Lexulous works for more than a year now. The fact that you thought we were staff--and that none of us, I think, realized that-- may explain why the conversation has taken the turn it has!
@carol-ann-nasta The forum is set up so that when one person responds to any comment in the topic, everyone who has said anything on that topic automatically gets an e-mail notifying them of that response. Don't ask me why it's set up that way; it simply is. If you prefer not to keep hearing from various people whose responses you find unhelpful, you can change those default settings so that you only see the conversation if you deliberately click into the forum. I did that myself after finding there were hundreds of e-mails waiting for me! I think the setting is in your Profile under Notifications.
@dan that makes sense, and leads me to ask, what is up with all the "deleted" posts in forums? Are we to assume that they were all considered irrelevant and/or offensive, and the admins are culling all our posts?
@mistertoad my guess would be that English (or maybe "english") is acceptable as a word in certain games (in billiards one can "put some english" on a shot). Similarly, graphic artists use india ink, and when guests come over I bring out the good china: turning proper nouns into common ones! (of course I do still frequently see words being accept in the game when I had assumed they would be disallowed because of capitalization issues...)
@carol-ann-nasta I have the impression you are talking about e-mail games? That may be where the confusion is coming from. Many of the players responding to your post are people who play "live" (real-time) games. That's the kind of game I play, and I always get the bingo points immediately after making my move. In your case, since you say it takes days for the bingo bonus to show up, that must be a game that stays open longer than the real-time ones. I agree, a days-long lag in your scoring would be irritating!
@mistertoad Are proper names allowed? Jacob? England? English?
@pangloss (and @anyone who cares)... This is a fascinating thread and clearly points to issues that should be of grave concern to all of us. In my own personal opinion, a player who is guilty of crimes against nature like the word-chain MEATYJABWIFE should be cast into the Outer Darkness, where there shall be screaming and gnashing of teeth. (They don't belong with polite company. Instead, they belong in the Hall of Fame devoted to people with creativity and a sense of humor!)
