What happened to sportsmanship?

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Avatar of jspickard

I play roughly 10-20 games a day here, and when I first started playing back around April or May, I thought the site was amazing because of the sportsmanship of the players.  I always received a "good game" or "well played" here after every game.  But for the past month or so, all I seem to get are sore losers or cocky winners.  What happened to sportsmanship?  Chess is a game, it's not like a slap in the face if you lose people.  Today I played to games in particular, against members nickladze and marcum. 

The games started out fine, no conversation but that's normal.  But after I win, I received numerous insults after telling them "good game" and "well played man".  This is my game with marcum.  Before this game, I had beaten him, and he replied with "you suck, I own you" and "best two out of three".  During this game below he constantly attacked me with hits to my future military plans, my political views, and when he realized he wasn't going to win in the end game, he offered me 7 draws.  When I declined them all and told him "You ran your mouth, play and lose or resign", he closed the browser.  

Here is a link to a screenshot of after he left the game, accidentally hit backspace and thanks to Google Chrome I had to reload the page so you can't see where he left: http://i36.tinypic.com/opnuh2.png The image is rather large so I don't want to post it here.
Here is my game with nickladze.  At the end of this game, he started saying "no f*!king way!" and said "g1mp", idk what that means though I tried Googleing it to no avail.  No screenshot of this one, I played this game only a few minutes ago and wasn't thinking.
 
I don't understand why people are rude on a chess website.  In my town and school chess is a game of respect, intellect, it's fun and is a man's game, not a child's.  If you feel like flaming this thread then you're one of these immature infants I'm talking about.  I just wanted to vent that, well, this is ridiculous that here at chess.com, we have to flame each other when we lose.  I'm not saying everyone does it but really, should anyone be a sore loser over a chess game?  No.  I feel like these members give chess.com a bad rap.  What if some new guy came and happened to run into no one but these jerk offs?  They'd leave especially if they were losing, and may stop finding enjoyment out of the game itself.  It's a shame, in my opinion.
Avatar of Tangan

yes. those guys are just plain stupid... just ignore them. i played marcum before and he was a really big idiot... dont worry though most of the members are good sports and dont let two players worry you. here are some games that i played and i recieved words like good games even though if i were them i wouldve totally flipped out...

 

 

 

so as i said before dont worry about those idiots... just ignore them if you bump into another one

Avatar of jspickard

Thanks for the reply.  They aren't the only two I've seen, and I do have to say that for the majority Chess.com has people that are easy to be fond of here.  But I worry that one bad seed will corrupt more and more.

Avatar of OfEmptyMen

This is quite possibly the most disrespectful way to voice your concerns. I hope you understand the irony.

Avatar of jspickard

Thanks for your opinion OfEmptyMen.  Does seem ironic, but the world isn't in black and white, what I'm doing isn't the same as what they are in my opinion.