How to deal with toxic players?

There are always rude people whatever the game, just go with it

The abuse of terms and words in languages is nothing new, but got worse with the Internet. Imo.

Words used figuratively, like "toxic", are then used again in a furthermore figurative way derived from the first figurative way (which makes it already very vague), and replace words and terms that do already exist and are, actually, much more efficient and precise to describe a person or a situation.

What is toxic, originally means what does poison your body.

Then, and that I understand, it has been used to describe a relationship where two persons will keep hurting each other (usually in their feelings) until, possibly, the mental health of one of them (or both of them) gets threatened.

What I don't understand so well, is the use of "toxic" to describe someone being merely annoying, gross or rude. With "toxic", one can't know which the person proved to be. And maybe it's not always exactly the same thing, and then doesn't call for the exact same reaction... Idk. (and hey, is a beatup "toxic"?)

One of the ideas implied by the figurative use of the term "toxic", is that it doesn't show at first, that the thing, or the person, is harmfull. But maybe I'm wrong.

Well, if, in the end, everybody and everything will be separated between "toxic" and "non-toxic", one could aswell just say "bad and good" don't you think?

Anyhow, it's nothing important, I just wanted to share my thoughts on the subject, and I do apologize if some will find it off-topic, boring, or... toxic? (lol).

Tell them to cope then block hem

While they laugh in your face for not coping you can feel like you said something good blocking is a useful feature lol

best to just ignore them, if all that's keeping you from not closing the chat is what they think if you close it then just close the chat anyways.

I won a game in the chess variants page then this guy said "**** you"

chess.com fair play\abuse\moderators do something to this guy

(Block and reported him)

{very furious face}

dont reply, u can block or report them for this behaviour

ok

How to deal with Toxic Players? The same with Toxic People.

https://www.delawarepsychologicalservices.com/post/7-ways-to-remove-toxic-people-from-your-life

Removing isn't always the best way what if they decide to attack you

Would it be a toxic discussion within a toxic topic about some toxic behaviour from a toxic player?

I always mark them as a bad sport and report for abuse. Don't know if that actually does anything thought a few people in this topic noted bans happen frequently.

I think most of it is trash talk meant to out-psyche their opponents. It's usually a crying face emoji after they make a good move. Childish and unprofessional either way.

Ok mattflix will do it next time

Say: "Chess is hard enough without the extra drama, right?"

exactly

Personally I like the I'm blocking& reporting this meme.

Well ill quit the match immediately but now before returning fire

I recently had an opponent call me a 'dodo bird' after a tough game. I reported him and Chess.com investigated it....they came to the conclusion that I was actually acting like a dodo bird.

I will talk a moderator about it

I agree, reporting and blocking is unfortunately the best you can do. I am actually a very nice guy but people have been rude to me without any reason. 95% of the time I've been either been very polite to them or did not respond at all. The one or two times I have been rude to them back it was actually me who got in trouble in the end by getting my account restricted. It's not really fair but these people are not fair. Often times I could even swear they are cheating too but this is of course sometimes difficult to prove. My advise is to simply ignore and to block and/ or report these idiots.

I don't really think this is chess.com 's priority but I gave up caring about these matters from my end because I can't change the world alone unfortunately. I log on play and log off again.

you can only block and report them