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I play cribbage on MSN's gamezone.  You can usually blow through a game in about five minutes.  Some people play even faster.  They advertise in the game room main chat line for 'fast players.'

Here's my question: Sometimes while playing a game an opponent will type "brb" (be right back- there's chat capabilities on the game tables, too).  Then they leave without a confirming "okay" from me.

I think this is extremely rude.  If someone has to leave they have the ability to forfeit the game, which I think is the proper action.

Am I a prig?  Anyone else have netiquette pet peeves?
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Lets say, they didn't have time to wait. for example, they are bleeding, or they left the iron on and its burning, emergencies can happen.
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If it was an emergency, I don't think they would spend the time saying BRB.

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 Here's my question: Sometimes while playing a game an opponent will type "brb" (be right back- there's chat capabilities on the game tables, too).  Then they leave without a confirming "okay" from me.

I think this is extremely rude.  If someone has to leave they have the ability to forfeit the game, which I think is the proper action.

Am I a prig?  Anyone else have netiquette pet peeves?
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Steve

Maybe it's their own secret adopted code for "(I'm) Being a Real Butthead...

FB  :)

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Netiquette peeves? Now where do I start? How about, people who SHOUT! Worse, people who CONTINUE TO SHOUT EVEN AFTER THEY'VE BEEN ASKED, nay, TOLD, NOT TO! and people who just type without using any form of punctuation so that you have to read real slow to make out what theyre trying to say. The word 'netiquette' ( ;D). Idiots whose first question in a chat is a/s/l - I have a profile for a reason, moron.

There's just too much. I hate cyber space.
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So, Goreripper.... a/s/l ?  ;D

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Netiquette peeves? Now where do I start? How about, people who SHOUT! Worse, people who CONTINUE TO SHOUT EVEN AFTER THEY'VE BEEN ASKED, nay, TOLD, NOT TO! and people who just type without using any form of punctuation so that you have to read real slow to make out what theyre trying to say. The word 'netiquette' ( ;D). Idiots whose first question in a chat is a/s/l - I have a profile for a reason, moron.

There's just too much. I hate cyber space.
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Speaking of the a/s/l question... I was nearly accosted in a cribbage room last month.  First, the woman (guess she was a woman) sits at my table.  Next she disables 'Watchers.'  Then she writes 'm/f ?' (My user name is my real first name followed by some numbers, so that question was a little unusual).
Between hands she peppers me with questions -Age? Height? Are you alone?  The dimensions of certain parts of my anatomy.  This goes on for a bit, between hands.  My final response, before she disconnected, was "No."  The question I was responding to was "Hard?"
Honest.  I think she wanted a cybering buddy, and I think she's found many before and after me-- in a cribbage game room, no less.  

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Net etiquette shmetiquette!!! I really could careless when someone SHOUTS, uses improper punctuation or leaves me hanging in a chat room or whatever and I certainly wouldn't dwell on it, not even for two seconds. I got bigger problemos to deal with lol. Nice thing about the internet though, noticing all the illiterate, poor-mannered bas*ards helps to verify this conclusion I've come to realize ..... the world is FULL of idiots. I swear it is, and the idiots are very closely followed by morons...
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Shh!  They out-number the rest of us.  ;)

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Shh!  They out-number the rest of us.  ;)
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Think of the implications: doesn't it make you wonder about how good a system democracy really is?

Phil

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If it was an emergency, I don't think they would spend the time saying BRB.
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Actually, I'd have to disagree. I've been in this situation a couple of times and given the BRB to attend to an emergency. Frankly, I think it would be even more rude just to run off without giving any indication that you're leaving.

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If you get into a fight with someone in a chatroom and he calls you names,just logoff or shut the computer down.And say"Why Am I fighting with a computer anyway"?It's stupid!The computer can't punch me in the face.He can insult me,yes but it won't do me any good if I say something back. -howard-
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There's always a person on the other end of the computer, though.  
I've seen some outrageous flame wars on message boards (for instance, the late "rankpeople.com" was pretty much unmoderated.  There were a couple people on the site who, for whatever reason, enjoyed engaging flamers in dialogues.  The flamer would say something really stupid, they would get a calm reasoned response, the flamer would reply to that with more kerosene soaked vitriol....)

I've read somewhere that etiquette book sales in the United States always spike after a surge of immigration.  Immigrants study etiquette to learn the rules of civilized behavior in their second country.  

Maybe it's just a golden rule, do unto others, thing.