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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5316769" data-attributes="member: 32740">It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye.&nbsp; I have a very limited tolerance for trashtalk.&nbsp; Every year I have less respect for and interest in professional sports simply because of the relentlessly unprofessional attitudes and behaviors.&nbsp; There's lessons to be learned from that.&nbsp;It's one thing for players to joke about others tastes in gaming, to express their opinions on what they genuinely do not like.&nbsp; It's another to hear it constantly, reliably, and when it serves no purpose other than to demonstrate how much of a fun-sponge you can be as a person.&nbsp; Talking trash almost inevitably seems to lead to bad blood - and there's just no reason anyone should let it get that far.&nbsp; When you hear a complaint n times where n is a very larger number hearing it n+1 times makes it no longer an opinion or good-natured ribbing - it's damned rude.&nbsp;If this is happening on your club website then put up a post telling people to shut the hell up for a while and gain a little freakin' perspective and PROPER attitude.&nbsp; If it's happening around the room then just have the club president make a formal announcement - or make it yourself:&nbsp;&quot;Attitudes in the club are becoming problematic - for me, even if not for anyone else.&nbsp; Let's have less attitude and a hell of a LOT MORE respect for other players and their gaming preferences before it gets further out of hand.&nbsp; That is all.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 5316769, member: 32740"] It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye. I have a very limited tolerance for trashtalk. Every year I have less respect for and interest in professional sports simply because of the relentlessly unprofessional attitudes and behaviors. There's lessons to be learned from that. It's one thing for players to joke about others tastes in gaming, to express their opinions on what they genuinely do not like. It's another to hear it constantly, reliably, and when it serves no purpose other than to demonstrate how much of a fun-sponge you can be as a person. Talking trash almost inevitably seems to lead to bad blood - and there's just no reason anyone should let it get that far. When you hear a complaint [I]n[/I] times where [I]n[/I] is a very larger number hearing it [I]n[/I]+1 times makes it no longer an opinion or good-natured ribbing - it's damned rude. If this is happening on your club website then put up a post telling people to shut the hell up for a while and gain a little freakin' perspective and PROPER attitude. If it's happening around the room then just have the club president make a formal announcement - or make it yourself: "Attitudes in the club are becoming problematic - for me, even if not for anyone else. Let's have less attitude and a hell of a LOT MORE respect for other players and their gaming preferences before it gets further out of hand. That is all." [/QUOTE]

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