You could have a blacklist and an allow list. that way the only people who would bother you are those who weren't on either list. when new people ask to view there could be allow and block options, with a checkbox "always allow/block" whichever you choose for that person.

I agree with Xerxes.  It's time for the rubber to meet the road.  Tourney starts in less than 3 weeks.  Is there any way to get this done?
 
Thanks, Chip!

21 votes is a pretty good number lady. usually the trash polls dont even get 21 votes.
 
it would be great to have a "who is watching" window for the tournament. but dont get your hopes up people.

All games should be viewable.  Period.  Players worried about being scouted are overwhelmingly being paranoid.   I could memorize the last 50 games Sadistic has played, and yet that probably is not going to drastically change the outcome in those 50 games if I played him.  I would most of them because of superior skill.  The fundamentals of a top ten player do not change that radically,and that can overcome a lot more than knowing what piece Sadistic leads with 69% of the time from his center front row.  Do people on the site compile that info?  Maybe. Doubt it matters much.  
 
Now for a gimmick player (like myself), being scouted can be a serious detriment.   But I lotto so wildly and so indiscriminantly that anyone who plays me just generally knows that a marshall is coming and soon.   I am basically being scouted by default because I play so many games here.  Frankly, if some loser wants to scout my games anyway, who cares.  My skill is inferior to the top dogs here, so I compensate but making my flag placements, bomb structures, and overall lotto strategy random.  The general principle is more important...and players who have played me know...prepare for lotto and early aggression.
 
Commish often plays the same way I do (albeit a little more effectively).  Everyone knows what he is doing.  Why would I scout him?  I already know what is coming.
 
The bottom line is, if you are a top ten player, you probably got there because of your skill.  Superior skill can probably overcome even the dirtiest scumbag scouting every setup you use.  Do we honestly think any top ten players are there because they meticulously scout their opponents?  I highly doubt that, and with my experiences playing these guys, they are there because of skill (skill includes misrepresenting pieces, patience, effective hunting, getting you to reveal your high pieces first, and keeping their position as fluid as possible at all times).  
 
To further the point: Lets be honest.  Hielco is going to put his flag in the back row, center cut, surrounded by 3 bombs, probably 85-90% of the time.   Why would I need to scout that?  Most top ten players are doing the same.   My goal is to figure out where the other 3 bombs are, and where his triangle in the center is exactly.   I do not need to scout these games to know this.  But despite this knowledge, beating him is still tremendously hard.  He knows I lotto, he knows I am coming in, and yet in roughly 12 games he has never adjusted his setups that radically against me.  That is because he is confident in his skill.    But often the top players do hide their games and I would argue the reasoning is flawed.  
 
I would watch these games for one simple reason...its typical superior technical stratego, from maneuvering, to probing, to bluffing.  As a lotto dominant player like myself, I could probably improve my game a lot by watching.  But mostly these guys go covert.
 
 
 

where the hell has Barbar been, anyway? Did he fly south for the frickin winter, or what?

Guess this will never happen?

Quote from iliketheesauce on Sep 14^th, 2010, 12:47pm:

that's probaly the problem for some players. too much rank sleeper.

yeah, that was what i meand (don't even remember having wrote "sleeper"   )