"Paul Herzman" writes:

| THANK YOU!!! There's hardly anything that I find more irritating than
| having someone say "gg" after I've just blundered a rook ( or even if I won
| and it was a poorly played game.)
| For the record, I always say "thank you" when I lose and nothing at all
| when I win unless my opponent says something first.

Yeah, I have learned not to say anything when I win, since once in a
while someone will go off the deep end at me.

When I lose I often say 'good game', but I often receive silence in
reply, which feels like extending a hand for a handshake and watching
the other person refuse it.

If the game was really exciting I will add an exclamation point to
'good game' to make it clear that I specifically enjoyed this one and
am not just being polite.

Sometimes we'll end up having a short chat about the game but for the
most part I've resigned myself to ICC being a pretty impersonal place.

Dan

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