Insulting your opponent

    Keywords: Culture & History, Online Go

Insulting your opponent could mean calling names, making unkind remarks before, during or after a game.

Discussion

DeathWind: I had some pretty bad experiences before on this.

In my beginner days, I started playing Go in Zone.com. I was called stupid pig in the game several times by one particular player who was much stronger than me at that time.

I happened to met this guy on KGS when I first started playing there as a guest. My skill was slightly inferior to his. He started deriding me whenever I made a careless mistake during the game itself calling me a retard several times in the game. When I lost the game, he suggest that I should name myself 41K instead of 14K (Was using 14K(something) as a guest name) and that I should give up go and was a disgrace to the game.

Vincent: Wow, that's pretty bad. My suggestion is to put people like that on your censored list so you don't have to deal with them anymore.

ThorAvaTahr: Personally I abandonned publishing lists of censored people and escapers in my info, as I now think it is a negative thing to do. Instead I publish my friends in the info now. (While writing this comment, I realize that publishing censored lists is not what vincent meant)

OneWeirdDude: You got that right. To me there's little difference between someone like that and a karate student that goes around bullying people.


Blake: On KGS tonight, I had a fellow named Xiangqi who insulted me after the game:

  Xiangqi 4k: id say nice game but erally it was just inattention

During the game, when I cut and killed a group:

  Xiangqi 4k: nice
  Blake 4k: thanks.
  Blake 4k: I am a territorial player, so i usually end up having to do something like that
  Blake 4k: as if you can't tell XD
  Xiangqi 4k: well your a player who doesnt think much about anything other than local fighting
  Blake 4k: heh
  Blake 4k: false
  Xiangqi 4k: true
  Blake 4k: it's just that i'm not good at anything else
  Xiangqi 4k: ^^
  Blake 4k: i play for influence, i lose
  Xiangqi 4k: you've been behind this whole game its why i got careless

This is the first time I've had something like that happen on KGS. It annoyed me a lot. Everyone thinks things like "if only I hadn't been careless!"--but to say it is ridiculous. Why not take the loss, congratulate your opponent, and then simply resolve not to make the same mistake again?

Phelan: This is probably a case of NamingAllYourExcusesForLosing instead.

Batavia?: i wouldn't really call this an insult. saying that you concentrate on local fighting might not be a compliment but it isn't exactly a big insult either.


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