Take the time to do this please

[JohnnyHumongous]

First off- I hear what everyone says about driving the fish away. But over time I have stopped worrying about this for a couple reasons:

-There are so many frigging fish online, they are lined up to fill the seat if one in a hundred of the berated players gets pissed off. It's not like we're in the "big game" and it's 8 of us awesome pros and 1 or 2 billionaire whales who could get offended and never come back and drop Bentleys or whatever.

-Most people don't really care what is being said. The "fish" getting berated is half the time a regular (who isn't going anywhere), or has their chat off, or they just don't care about getting insulted.

-Some people get turned on by the insults. I see this a lot. I see guys all the time who will totally get into huge arguments and insult battles, either as the aggressor or as the defender, and these guys are actually gigantic fish. The jabbing seems to be part of the experience of online poker. As a parallel, competitive basketball is filled with trash talk, insults, guys ragging on each other, even guys on the same team! Just like with poker, there are friendly basketball games and then there are very aggressive, trash talking games. I really don't think people are going to argue that the trash talking that happens from time to time is a major factor in turning people off from basketball. The sport is frigging huge on a global scale.

Just my thoughts. Like Microbob I find that multitabling mostly precludes me from getting overly interested or involved in the proceedings at any one table.