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Just don't understand internet etiquette these days

“In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.”
This is why online chess comes handy: you don't necessarily have to waste your time with your opponent just because an unwritten rule says so.
BirdBrainf4 I agree with your sentiment.

And Thibault, despite his snippy response to you, understands your view better than he lets on. He has nicely added the "Hi", "GL" buttons at the bottom so that even people with no time to waste can quickly be friendly.

However, once you start thinking of how to improve matters further, you might get stuck like me. For example, let me ask you this — how much longer would you be willing to queue for a game in order to play against someone with good etiquette? Twice as long? Three times a long?

Building community is hard! <3 <3
Hi pals!
Sorry, my chat is disabled because it 's a distraction during the game.
But... "internet etiquette" is not an oxymoron?
No one says "hello" or "goodbye", even in their posts :)
Lots of love for everybody <3
here's my etiquette code: never offer rematches (but accept them), only say gg when i lose or the opponent says it first, warn in advance before i stop accepting rematches, say something like "thanks for the games" after a long series of rematches.
it has even survived chess.com's highly intolerant waters :o

that said, i really don't care about people acting "off the etiquette" against me. the only slightly annoying things are when people go out of their way to be obnoxious (ie unwarranted trash talk, letting their time run out) but you eventually just develop immunity :D
Please remember you may be playing someone whose native language you don't speak!
We do (did) talk chess, isn't that enough? Thought the chat is for women.

(don't take that for too serious, I tried to show some warped humour ;-) )
Thanks for the responses. Some seemed to be more in line than others.

The idea here is simply this - OTB, people at least are a bit more congenial, while online etiquette is often more quick. There is no reason not to desire at least a smidgeon of response, whether it is simply to foster something as small as "GG" or something along those lines.

It's not even that every person has to do such a thing, but the rarity of opponents that interact pre- and post- match with courtesy in my games is low.

I am simply stating it would be a nice movement to start on here - even something as small as clicking "gg". Most of the time, I even wait a few seconds to see if my opponent will issue a rematch, and sometimes I issue one myself.

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