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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 1726990" data-attributes="member: 4720">Arguably, the sports guys can be a LOT worse.&nbsp; They smell AND they have a penchant for trying to give you noogies.&nbsp; At least smelly gamers generally don't try to touch you.Also, for the record, my notion of &quot;undesirables&quot; has nothing to do with someone's shyness or virginity.&nbsp; Heck, I was a virgin until substantially later than the national average.&nbsp; My notion of &quot;undesirables&quot; is based on boorish, smelly, rude, piggish people who cause people to flee the building.Nisarg may be overstating the case, but he has a point.&nbsp; I'm not saying we need to &quot;purge&quot; people from the hobby, but maybe we could try educating them.&nbsp; I failed miserably most of the time at that, but I did introduce one guy to deodorant successfully, and after my impassioned variations on &quot;Dude! It is NOT cool to leer at the 16 year old!&quot; were ignored for three sessions, I got the pleasure of witnessing an education when she slapped him so hard it left a welt.Actually, I think that was educational for both of them.So my success rate was 2 out of about 15, but I was working alone.&nbsp; No one else in any group I was ever in would in any way comment on these elephants in the gaming room.&nbsp; That was what finally put me over the edge.&nbsp; Had the entire group brought a little social pressure on some of these behaviors, things might have changed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 1726990, member: 4720"] Arguably, the sports guys can be a LOT worse. They smell AND they have a penchant for trying to give you noogies. At least smelly gamers generally don't try to touch you. Also, for the record, my notion of "undesirables" has nothing to do with someone's shyness or virginity. Heck, I was a virgin until substantially later than the national average. My notion of "undesirables" is based on boorish, smelly, rude, piggish people who cause people to flee the building. Nisarg may be overstating the case, but he has a point. I'm not saying we need to "purge" people from the hobby, but maybe we could try educating them. I failed miserably most of the time at that, but I did introduce one guy to deodorant successfully, and after my impassioned variations on "Dude! It is NOT cool to leer at the 16 year old!" were ignored for three sessions, I got the pleasure of witnessing an education when she slapped him so hard it left a welt. Actually, I think that was educational for both of them. So my success rate was 2 out of about 15, but I was working alone. No one else in any group I was ever in would in any way comment on these elephants in the gaming room. That was what finally put me over the edge. Had the entire group brought a little social pressure on some of these behaviors, things might have changed. [/QUOTE]

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