Offensive Screen Names

[spamuell]

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If you are offended by someone's screenname you are not controlling your emotions well at all. If you are not controlling your emotions well at all it is going to be difficult for you to play good poker.

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This is ridiculous. It's easy to not be emotionally affected by the run of the mill things that happen at the poker table which are to do with cards or money. It's quite another to sit down and see someone expressing views which you find offensive, hurtful and wrong.

If you are at all competent at understanding poker then you don't really need much emotional control as you realise that in the long run you are a winning player. This is a completely different issue from realising that there are people that you are going to run across in day to day life whose views are so diametrically opposed to your own and there's no "long run" where suddenly they regress to the mean of being reasonable.

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If you don't have the intestinal fortitude to avoid getting offended by someone's screenname then what the hell are you doing playing poker?

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could you please explain what one has to do w/ the other? id love to hear the convoluted logic behind this.

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It's not very convoluted at all. It is simple emotional control.

If you are offended by someone's screenname you are not controlling your emotions well at all. If you are not controlling your emotions well at all it is going to be difficult for you to play good poker.

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Two words: Phil Hellmuth.

Actually, make that three words.

Phil Hellmuth, [censored]

[YoureToast]

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If you don't have the intestinal fortitude to avoid getting offended by someone's screenname then what the hell are you doing playing poker?

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could you please explain what one has to do w/ the other? id love to hear the convoluted logic behind this.

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I think the statement is correct, but I sure couldn't explain why.

[BruinEric]

If a screen name bothers you, it can't hurt to send an e-mail to the site expressing this.

It is in a Poker site's best interest to create an atmosphere that offends the least number of reasonable players.

If a player's name or behavior is upsetting players and they quit the session or leave the site, it will be of interest to the poker site.

Since the site is their private property, they are entitled to make the final determination on what is offensive or not.

If a Poker Site support staff is staffed primarily by persons for whom English is not the native language, or whose social knowledge is different than mine, I don't see a problem with informing them about the potential offense of screen names.

For example, there are occasionally players with cryptic "license plate style" playernames which are euphemisims for sexual acts or various body parts. I can't imagine a support team catching that when they have 10k+ players on at a time.

[JerseyTom]

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I know what you mean, I saw one "GeorgeWBush".

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POTD?

[dlk9s]

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I know what you mean, I saw one "GeorgeWBush".

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For those leaning the other way, I'm playing at a table right now with someone named "impeachgw." [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I wonder if Party will let me create the screen name www888com when I register.

I saw one on party that was F_CKB_SH. He was a donk though.

[HopeydaFish]

There's a poster on here whose screen-name on Party is/was "NAMBLAGambla". I laughed pretty hard the first time I saw it.

I don't get offended by screen-names, or anything else that people do online. It makes it a little more satisfying to take away their money, but that's about it.

[Gunny Highway]

I find nits who go around looking for ways to force their petty little issues on everyone much more offensive than any screen name someone could come up with.