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| Cooperative playing in Scribble |
| [57576] by "alpha" (ab-proxy-3122.bay.webtv.net) on Fri 23 Jun 2006 21:58:45 [ reply ] |
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Tom,
You're probably sick of hearing this, but I have a question about the webTv troll that keeps messing up all the games with his infamous plays (using the u's to spoil the chance of having a U for the Q, playing 3 letter words on a trip, using the S's as fast as he can, blocking the trips with words that cannot be extended, etc): The instructions state clearly that this is meant to be a cooperative game, so how can someone making plays to deliberatly thwart most other players be considered a cooperative player? He is most definately not a team player, and ruins the fun of your game for other players, many of whom have been loyal to this site for some time. I know the expert boards are set up for those who want to play by expert rules, but we can't play regular scribble with this player being allowed to make the types of plays he makes. It's been going on for some time, and he's getting to be an expert at spoiling every game. How is this cooperative play, and fair to every other player? It's frustrating for other players and it's rude/childish behavior on his part. He's being allowed to to be the one uncooperative player, and I fully understand the frustration that leads players to make rude remarks - yes, I have done it myself, although more often than not I just swear to myself and stop playing when he's around. The last straw was tonight when someone played deepen, and in chat wrote er/s, and this guy's response was to play "ers" on the deepen on the trip, and then wrote in chat "Like this?" I know he thought was being cute, but he was just showing his uncooperative attitude. That play really ticked me off. I feel better having written this out, but I will always believe that letting someone continue to play unccoperatively is against the tenets of your game, and I don't understand it being allowed. Other players, please do not start a word war in here about this player or trolls - this is just meant as an expression of my feelings and is not intended to set people off. Tom, you can tell me it's too bad and to suck it up, but I think you can't ask us in the instructions to be cooperative with other players one the one hand and justify this type of behavior on the other. |