Re: Idle questions

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Posted by patricca (Gold Member)

(Ranked 231 on Scrabble (Zone) Ladder) on June 04, 2002 at 18:02:23:

In Reply to: Re: Idle questions posted by karjen_24 on June 04, 2002 at 13:54:35:

...so be it, after all, who does it really affect?

Just in case someone misses the rhetoric, allow me to clarify. It affects the cheater. I have met dozens of online players in the years I have been playing in tourneys and most of those I suspected of cheating still have novice ratings. They can't play live because they don't know how. Thousands of games spent cheating teaches you not one iota of the game.

I have only played in the novice division once, so I am no expert on game play at that division, but I have had the opportunity to step in and word judge a novice room a few times. I have also stood behind a few novices at tourneys now and then. I can't watch too long because the stuff that gets played makes me want to cry. Point is, they stink. I openly accused parteegirl of cheating once and her response to me was, "I don't know what your credentials are, but do you know who I am?" I resisted the urge to tell her she is Princess of the Peons in the scrabbleworld. It is always odd to see 100% challenge ratios and LARGE NUMBERS of off-the-wall bingos from players under 1400. When these players who have depended on cheating move to live play they have no strategy to bring with them. They never bothered learning any. They can't remember the crazy words they have played because they didn't study them. That's why they stay in the low divisions.

Long may they rule.

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: ...so be it, after all, who does it really affect? : Just in case someone misses the rhetoric, allow me to clarify. It affects the cheater. I have met dozens of online players in the years I have been playing in tourneys and most of those I suspected of cheating still have novice ratings. They can't play live because they don't know how. Thousands of games spent cheating teaches you not one iota of the game. : I have only played in the novice division once, so I am no expert on game play at that division, but I have had the opportunity to step in and word judge a novice room a few times. I have also stood behind a few novices at tourneys now and then. I can't watch too long because the stuff that gets played makes me want to cry. Point is, they stink. I openly accused parteegirl of cheating once and her response to me was, "I don't know what your credentials are, but do you know who I am?" I resisted the urge to tell her she is Princess of the Peons in the scrabbleworld. It is always odd to see 100% challenge ratios and LARGE NUMBERS of off-the-wall bingos from players under 1400. When these players who have depended on cheating move to live play they have no strategy to bring with them. They never bothered learning any. They can't remember the crazy words they have played because they didn't study them. That's why they stay in the low divisions. : Long may they rule.

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