Invitations, privacy, and private messages

Invite league members, control your visibility, and use direct messages safely.

# Invitations, privacy, and private messages

# League invitations

Only the league owner can invite a new member. From Manage invitations, enter an exact username for a registered user or an email address for any recipient. Invitations expire after seven days and can be resent after 24 hours. For security, the result does not reveal whether an address exists or has disabled invitations.

A registered recipient can accept or decline from League invitations. An email recipient follows a signed link, signs in or registers with the same address, verifies it, and then returns to the invitation. Acceptance creates a confirmed membership; it never grants an administrative role.

# Privacy

The profile privacy page contains two independent controls:

  • Show online status determines whether you appear in the online users list.
  • Accept league invitations determines whether owners can find and invite you.

Both controls are enabled by default. They do not hide your profile or prevent messages from members who share one of your leagues.

# Private messages

You can start a direct conversation only with a user who shares at least one league in which both memberships are valid. The same condition is checked again whenever a message is sent. Messages contain plain text only, up to 2,000 characters; HTML, scripts, and URLs are displayed as inert text.

The inbox shows the latest message and unread count. Opening a conversation marks incoming messages as read. New messages arrive in real time.

Either participant may block the other. A block in either direction stops both users from sending, while the existing history remains readable. The user who created a block can remove it to enable sending again.

# Spring tournament prizes

For a spring tournament, an owner can choose to credit monetary prizes to the winner's senior team. The award still records the spring team that earned it. If no senior team is linked, the spring team receives the credit so that no prize is lost. In multistage competitions, the main tournament setting also applies to its child stages.