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You can never say if a person is making fun of you, or if they are being a good sport.

actually it's usually fairly obvious. unless the person intentionally goes to lengths to try and obscure their true meaning.  

what I don't understand is why anyone would ever be offended by such if it's an amateur internet blitz/bullet game. if someone says "gg" to you in a serious/insulting manner after some random amateur/chess enthusiast internet blitz/bullet game, it only serves to make it very clear that they have an embarrassingly poor understanding of chess. it would only be poor manners/bad sportsmanship if someone did this after a standard otb tournament game.

I would venture that most people who say "gg" in a semi-insulting manner after an amateur internet blitz game are half serious if that and are only horsing around a bit, albeit in a rather juvenile manner.

a problem only arises when it inflates a person's ego to ungodly proportions with them making it clear that they think that the win in the given random amateur/chess enthusiast internet blitz/bullet game magically confers upon them the status of true genius and means that they are of vastly superior intelligence in every way. in actuality, they are incredibly deluded in various ways and can be highly annoying/grating on the nerves. 

(apologies for interrupting the "real" thread)

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