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Just because you were losing dismally – 57 to 207 or something – that’s a pretty crappy reason to resign from the game. Maybe play your friends for a while to learn how to play the game properly or don’t play at all, but please don’t waste proper players’ time again!

I share ur concern
People who cannot stand losing should not waste the time of other players
I was playing with this guy who scored a bingo and opened up a 60 plus lead
I guess he was feeling good about himself and his ability till I overturned the lead and opened up a 60 point lead on him
He then quit.
How rude and impolite. If you don’t have the balls to play the game, DON”T

Well I started a game with said ‘player’, he/she played first, I played one word and waited, checked back, and waited, checked back etc . . . that was it . . . deleted said game . . . and it’s atrocious, like it’s been said above, if you’ve not got the balls, don’t bloody waste other peoples time!

That’s really not on.

I would say being thrashed is an excellent reason to resign. The option is there – why not use it? There are a lot of cheats on this site as well as a big differences in abilities, if you get mis-matched or find yourself playing against someone you believe to be cheating, why shouldn’t people resign? Personally, I always prefer to play out the game, or in the 1 instance I have resigned because I was pretty sure he was cheating, I just told him that’s what I was going to without getting into the ‘are you cheating’ arguement. But, the button is there, people can use it how they like. You’ve still won the game, it counts on the stats – what’s the problem?

much to everyone’s shock I am sure .. i agree with Rob S here

I personally play out all games no matter how shitty I am playing. I see a resignation as a recognition that someone has realized that they are outmatched, at least in their current game, and they really don’t have the desire to play out getting stomped.

I understand that “in the real scrabble world” people do not resign so please don’t even bother with that one. This is NOT the real scrabble world. This is online at Facebook. The rules here seem to be subtly different than they are even at other online scrabble sites.

If the person DELETED the game .. you have a legitimate gripe .. if they RESIGNED .. you don’t. Your stats reflect a win and your rating does as well.

You have “named and shamed” someone that didnt deserve it IMHO.

What you can do in this instance Alexandra is send their name and game link to the official Scrabulous email address which you can find somewhere at Scrabulous.com. The Jagawalla brothers don’t tolerate this kind of abuse and will have Mr Saleem’s Scrab app removed AND blocked so that he can’t play again.

I’ve had more than 70 people blocked for doing this to me in the past 5 months. It really teaches them a lesson, which you soon hear about because you inevitably get a letter in your inbox saying something like

“You miserable little schmuntfaced boob. You whinged about me resigning even though there’s a resign button SUPPLIED IN THE GAME. I will mentally torture you until your mind can only think of a sepia toned goon sarcastically ridiculing you on a public forum”.

“Much to everyone’s shock”

Yep Rob, this was worse than the time I accidentally clutched an electric fence aged 6 and couldn’t make my hand let go.

I invite ‘everyone’ else who gives a flying shit about your relationship with Rob S to proffer up their shock for our entertainment.

although that is one way of dealing with it, i think it is a little extreme. i get quite irrate when people do it to me as i dont very often get a score high enough to make people resign but i would never consider going quite that far.

The reason you wouldn’t go that far is because you’re obviously a bit shit at scrabble. But it matters to those of us who’ve bothered to learn a little rack tilting, vowel inswapping and board balancing, Chrissie. I didn’t become an international Scrabble expert only to have dumb fucks like Saleem treat me with disrespect.

There’s no need to name and shame. That’s my mun you’re talking about

yes your right, i am a bit shit at scrabble but if i had had 70 people or more resign from games i was playing i would be thinkin that perhaps they dont like the company they are playing with

…or maybe, just maybe, it’s because they’re getting beaten by 200-300 points.

that would be the big headed answer yes. i can personally see why some1 would resign a game with you. n thats coming from some1 who would never resign a game however much they were winning by.

Let’s all challenge Blair to a game then just as we’re neck and neck at the 250 mark, resign, even if we’re winning. Let’s c’mon, let’s let’s let’s

i will point out at this stage that i am not meaning to offend you. it is just a different point of view thats all. i like to see it from both sides

…and that would be the big clitted response then.

“I like to see it from both sides”

See what…my big head? You’ll have to get very very close then.

Actually Chrissie, Blair is pretty crap at Scrabble. Everyone beats him, but he does hang on till the end. I’ll say that for him.

“I like to see it from both sides”

How very Joni Mitchell of you, sir

Don’t be a hippy. Fight, fight, fight

ah but im sure he isnt as crap as myself lol. i have to say i applaud him for that as i do hate it when people dont hang on until the end. i have games on the go where the person hasnt played for 4weeks but im still waiting lol

I see. So this chick Ruth Anne Cunningham is allowed to boast about the one time she beat me, Blair Au Revoir International Scrabble Expert, and she doesn’t get the “you’re a bighead” treatment?

Ruth you got told!

I don’t play Scrabble online anymore. I prefer the oldfashioned game where … get this … you have to actually *know* the words you’re playing. Incredible isn’t it?

she didnt actually state that she had beaten you so i was unaware of that fact. n i would never purposely accuse any1 of being big headed, i just felt that in that instance that patrticular reply came accross as being big headed that is all

So I’m not allowed to be proud of the fact that I have a Forster & Hyth’s International Scrabble Rating of 2689, have played David McKeowie in the Mumbai finals and regularly kick Ruth Anne Cunningham’s arse?

Talk about tall poppy syndrome.

Surely such a type of blazon doesn’t inhere?

Blair’s head is huge and rather empty. He had hydrocephalus as a child.

And yet it still manages to fit into Ruth’s gob.

of course you are allowed to be proud. i just meant that its not fair to assume that all 70 of those people resigned for that reason, even if 69 times it was

My wife had hydrowatsit and has only just got over it so I don’t think this is funny………… oops whole other zone