playing dirty is popular on FFA, I've blocked so many but there is always more and more (and you get them on anon). aren't you guys strong enough to win playing with ethics? some just find it entertaining to play dirty.
you find reasons to justify dirty game, some I can understand, but the result of the dirty game turns away strong non-dirty players, and brings on a bad reputation for this game that we love so much.
If you are a winner, as any gamer should be, you only play your best to get the win, changing the elo made stuff worse, some play not to lose or even to make their opposite loss. and some even find it funny. you see so many "jajaja" people are enjoying seeing you hopeless...
When high rated plays with lower-rated in a non-anon mode, it ends-up often as 3 v 1, this is dirty and it turns away strong players. play them on anon and you get to play with those you blocked (you don't want to play with them because they are dirty that is why you block them from the first place)
Playing only to effect the winner, not to try to get the 1st (usually by attacking the one you dislike or helping your friend) is dirty, playing passive while the sides kill your opposite is dirty, "forcing" your opposite to give mate and then taking his q and go on to winning the game is dirty, I can go on and on guys, I dont think that if you were actually coming to my living room as friends that meet and play, you would play dirty like that, otherwise, I would never invite you again to my home right? well if we are playing together you are inside my life, and I still dont want to play with unfair dirty players.
I'm a team player, a year ago I tried playing FFA for a while, it ended up me writing a subject like this one here and going back to team mode, now I tried to play again some FFA (got in top 10 both in solo and ffa) and again I have to say goodbye, like me, strong players will not play this mode and that's a shame.
I will check back in a year to see if ffa, which is a new game that is being shaped like a baby now, is more of a pleasant community of chess players.
All the best to all