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why so rude

Hi everyone,

First, i want to say i don't stay here to make friends; i just want to learn play chess, but i think kindness is important, and i always start the game writing "hi", and i'm very impressed cause almost no one writes "hi"; it must be very hard to say "hi"
Yep, unless you play fast bullet and you don't have the time to answer, i join you on that point.
But people are people, you can't force them to answer. Sadly.
u are right, but isn't a time problem cause i always play 10'+10
Same here, my opponents have no excuses either cause i only play correspondence chess ^^
On Ipads and mobile devices the chat is not visible, so I would be one of those rude people :-).
I wouldn't say it's rude to _not_ reply back with 'hi', but it's rude and unnecessary to trash talk or worse yet, insult your opponent for e.g. taking too long to move.

And if you think someone is cheating, don't moan at them in chat, report it to the moderators. Calling them cheaters to their face solves nothing.

P.S.: I just got a hilariously weird captcha: http://el.lichess.org/rwKvNM4A/black
Hellball: I agree, this is why I hope there will be some sort of chat feature on the ipad-version of lichess.
Perhaps there could be an option to automatically have something written in the chat when I click resign that could be pre-set? Especially on mobile devices it can be hard to type in anything before people move on.

What I don't get is people who trashtalk when *they* are loosing. Like, thanks mate, you just made that win feel really good.
One Canadian player actually objected to my saying hi - said he/she wasn't here to chat (neither was I). I guess there's all kinds. It doesn't matter if they don't say hi, however, although the active rudeness isn't on.

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