How can we be sure of its stupidity without seeing it? I wish you would have some sort of "rogues gallery" where all these deleted posts could go to eternally shame those who wrote them instead of casting them into the void never to be seen again.Carl Hibbard wrote:A previous rather stupid post was removed.
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Joey Stewart
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Lose one queen and it is a disaster, Lose 1000 queens and it is just a statistic.
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Joshua Gibbs
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who on earth could that be?Carl Hibbard wrote:A previous rather stupid post was removed.
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Alistair Campbell
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I wonder if this is related to the vogue for "trash-talking" mentioned on the other thread.
Whist this might be slightly droll the first or second time you hear it, I suspect it may soon cease to amuse.
On a wider level, has t'internet allowed intolerance to flourish? I assume it was always there, but certainly since IndyRef it seems to have got worse.
Mind you, I last played chess online about 15 years ago (and quit after someone abused me) so maybe it's not new.
Sledging appears to have a purpose at least - professional cricketers are rewarded for winning games, and putting the batsman off can help achieve this. I'm not sure what purpose anonymous post-game abuse serves.
Whist this might be slightly droll the first or second time you hear it, I suspect it may soon cease to amuse.
On a wider level, has t'internet allowed intolerance to flourish? I assume it was always there, but certainly since IndyRef it seems to have got worse.
Mind you, I last played chess online about 15 years ago (and quit after someone abused me) so maybe it's not new.
Sledging appears to have a purpose at least - professional cricketers are rewarded for winning games, and putting the batsman off can help achieve this. I'm not sure what purpose anonymous post-game abuse serves.