Is there ever any punishment for disconnectors?

I can't distinguish it... :_(

I trust you, you only have a prejudice against bagpipes.

Pulpoferia: You need to understand very deeply the language to distinguish, but it's possible. I recognize immediately someone that don't know the Portuguese correctly. Same thing in other languages... You probably can do that in Spanish. 

"Saudade", the most beautiful concept, only exists in Portuguese and Galician if I'm not wrong.

And to you!

Exactly! Means that you are missing too much someone or something!

yes , they lose the game

I feel it about the things that did never happen.

        To sum it all up, this thread has taken us along a familiar path - that of a member raising a subject which he would surely know has been raised quite a few times before, unless he had only been a member for five minutes. I believe, as I do on most of these occasions, that it was raised not to arrive at a resolution or agreement, but to provoke trouble. 

        As always the discussion wandered completely off the point at quite an early stage and stirred up by a member trying to con us into believing that he/she was a Scot, became a squabble between traditional enemies England and Scotland. I have to accept my part of the blame for wading into this, but what the status of Northern Ireland in 1707 has got to do with "live chess" disconnectors, I shall never know.

        I'd be delighted if somebody came up with a way of stopping people from provoking arguments about:

• Men and women's relative chess playing strength.
• Disconnectors.
• People who deliberately let the clock run down.
• Bobby Fischer's merits and faults.
• Questions of who the best player ever was (surely impossible to resolve).
• Whether chess is a sport.

        These are the subjects which come to mind. I suppose I shall now be accused of trying to provoke bitter argument.

Give them a fair trial then hang them. 

Actually, he was showing the Samoan flag as a sort of joke, since it was Samoa where the Scottish poet Stevenson ended his days. But I agree he should give you the benefit of doubt.

Well, I can't argue with that. Risky business anyway, I don't think it's possible to pretend being from a country among its citizens without having an extremely deep knowledge of it.

Carol_Anne has close his/her account. 

        That's why he/she failed to convince.