Arrogant spoiled babies calling people 'idiots'

Don't make this overly complicated. No swearing, no name calling, no harassment.

"You can tell a player that they made a bad move if you take the time to explain why, but you cannot call the player names. Attack the strategy but not the person. "

If this type of harassment happens to you, do not respond. Send a PM to a moderator and it will be taken care of.

i realize this subject has been trampled upon many times, but i think que may have a point. let me compare to another online game called Hearts (a 4p card game where teaming to take the front player down is expected). these sites r very abusive, and what mey seem like a stupid move isnt necessarily so because u may simply have bad cards. Point is people think that what they would do is the "right" choice and everything else is bad. This can happen in RISK too, (and no were not talking obviously bad moves). i got to admit that other players rarely do what i think would be their best move, and yet often find that it was actually a good move even if it didnt benefit me or my strategy. what i think que´s point is plys can start namecalling after a rather innoncent move that is not at all decisive in a very fluid game like Risk

and noobs will always have the biggest chance of receiving complaints of such nature

Any veteran player who calls noobs idiots is being quite foolish. The very best players use the chat to manipulate the game by teaching players good basic strategy. You want the players to use good strategies because then they are predictable enough for a calculating mind to make a complex plan against them. The very best manipulations are ones that convince a player to use a good basic strategy where, in this case, employing that strategy helps them but also works into your master plan.

As soon as you call a player an idiot they stop listening to you. You can no longer convince them of anything. You lose a significant tool. They become more unpredictable and more likely to attack you.

Feel free to point these players to this post whenever they start the name calling.
http://www.dominating12.com/forum/?cmd=topic&act=view&id=2097&page=2#post-31875

for me its not the losing that makes me mad it the fact the so called idiot has wasted my time for him or her to still lose the game

and if you get upset for been called a name in this big bad world go grow some b@lls

Vexer is absolutely correct.

Heres some advice from someone who was known as a puppetmaster in a former risk life.
Check how many games a player has played if you don't know them and they appear to be new. They may even know how to play risk without any d12 time.
Work your strategy around that, by welcoming and maybe asking questions. give some advice or info if they ask.
New players are likely to make poor choices or play emotionally or even get bored. (It was your choice to host or join a no points limit game)
If there game isn't about winning, they might pick a target if they have to and it may be that annoying know-it-all vetren calling him names. 
Not the friendly guy that gave some advice. Bad language and harrasment is against the rules so that's just silly to do. Curse and call names at your computer screen, just dont translate it to the monitor. Chat is part of the strategy. Abusing new players is just bad strategy.

i would certainly hate to play as a noob against lazer...even the sligtest move which didnt become him would be awaste of his time and respond to abuse would be "grow a pair". Again in this hread were not talking gamebreaking moves, but deviations from what the experienced player think most logical. Truthfully i cannot recognize ques problem as such, as i dont think it is that common. The only times i have experienced people getting abuse, is basically when they have done yes a veritable bad move (or several).

I aint hidding behind a keyboard! Where them at!