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What is the proper protocol in the chat? How should a gameoffer be presented?
Always start the offer with a Hi or other pleasantries.
63%
 63%  [ 60 ]
Cut straight to the point, no meaningless chit chat.
23%
 23%  [ 22 ]
The third alternative, usually involving pie. If you chose this one, please add a few lines about your decision.
12%
 12%  [ 12 ]
Total Votes : 94


Pirrekurr



Joined: Mar 11, 2004
Post   Posted: May 02, 2006 - 23:33 Reply with quote Back to top
So what is the proper protocol of taking contact in the chat? Some hate it when people says hi first, others like me get irritated when someone doesn't even have the decency to say hi first. But what is the proper protocol? Just so we know I started this thread as a spinoff to another thread on the forum.
EvilUpstart



Joined: Apr 18, 2006
Post   Posted: May 02, 2006 - 23:36 Reply with quote Back to top
I think that the games should always be given a friendly enviroment. A 'Hi' or 'Hello' is always a good start.

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pac



Joined: Oct 03, 2005
Post   Posted: May 02, 2006 - 23:39 Reply with quote Back to top
I'm a fan of punctuation (!?".;,:]), so my offers will usually begin with the line: 'hi: would your victims like to play my goblins?' - followed by a link to the team on the next line. So you get a pleasantry <i>and</i> straight to the point. Very Happy

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thesquig



Joined: Apr 11, 2004
Post   Posted: May 02, 2006 - 23:39 Reply with quote Back to top
Being British, manners are everything. Also people who reply to a reasonable game offer with a plain 'no' annoy me. Cant help it really, I guess having a different upbringing makes all the difference. I've learnt to just ignore this and delve into fumbbl knowing that most Europeans have different standards to me.

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SnakeSanders



Joined: Aug 02, 2003
Post   Posted: May 02, 2006 - 23:39 Reply with quote Back to top
people say hi? Laughing

i usually just get... game? proxy?
Rijssiej



Joined: Jan 04, 2005
Post   Posted: May 02, 2006 - 23:41 Reply with quote Back to top
I prefer to start with 'hi' to see if the coach is actually active in chat before i offer a game.
Bamboo



Joined: Mar 11, 2006
Post   Posted: May 02, 2006 - 23:43 Reply with quote Back to top
I like "Hi". Pleasantries are ESSENTIAL. As are cheeky jibes. Invitations I tend to decline tend to look a bit like...

"My DE yr CD"

Grrr. We're here to have fun. At least use a question mark, pal. Question marks are fun. Look:
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Case closed.
Optihut



Joined: Dec 16, 2004
Post   Posted: May 02, 2006 - 23:45 Reply with quote Back to top
Hi. Can I interest your humans in playing against my fazing fiends? http://fumbbl.com/FUMBBL.php?page=team&op=view&team_id=169436
Feuerschwarm



Joined: Feb 25, 2004
Post   Posted: May 02, 2006 - 23:57 Reply with quote Back to top
What pac and Optihut said. Those two things don't exclude each other.

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shadow46x2



Joined: Nov 22, 2003
Post   Posted: May 03, 2006 - 00:21 Reply with quote Back to top
i prefer the classic self-degradation...something along the lines of "would your team X like to beat the snot out of my team Y?"

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moxjet



Joined: Dec 27, 2003
Post   Posted: May 03, 2006 - 00:42 Reply with quote Back to top
Like to be my next victim?

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koadah



Joined: Mar 30, 2005
Post   Posted: May 03, 2006 - 01:12 Reply with quote Back to top
hmmm. How many of those who voted for option 2 live in NYC? Smile

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Pirrekurr



Joined: Mar 11, 2004
Post   Posted: May 03, 2006 - 01:15 Reply with quote Back to top
My personal favourite is to ask another amazon player for some girl on girl action. Almost always get a smile, even if it is stupid and immature, but before that I say hi, otherwise it would sound slutty...
Oblitzamanger



Joined: Jan 31, 2006
Post   Posted: May 03, 2006 - 01:34 Reply with quote Back to top
My goodness, people don't say "hi"? Peolpe get mad when people say "hi" first? If someone doesn't even <i>type</i> some kind of formality, then you know that he/she is only lookng for a match in which there will be no chatting, and the other coach will do anything he/she can do to win. It is an indicator of "unfunness".

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Wizard



Joined: Jul 09, 2004
Post   Posted: May 03, 2006 - 02:35 Reply with quote Back to top
Game vesus my Khemri?

If i try pleasentys im just wasting more spam time...

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