Wall Of Shame
Wall of Shame
For a while now, there’s been an influx of new players in the goat section of Duelingbook. This has a positive side, in that the community can grow this way, but the downside is that many of them are toxic. There are a few ways of addressing that problem. A solution many are turning to is to only play with their friends or ranked on one of the Discord servers, so as to avoid these players altogether. This is an approach I don’t like, because potentially good and friendly players will be stuck dueling the other players who aren’t part of any community, so they’ll have lower quality duels and might lose interest in Goat format before ever getting exposed to any community. The approach is akin to a whitelist, where people get filtered out by default, and only if you’ve happened to stumble upon a community are you getting through the filter. What I instead propose is a blacklist approach: give everyone a fair chance, and when someone is being toxic will they get on a public list of people to avoid. I’ve had many great duels by playing against so-called randoms.
I had started compiling this Wall of Shame, only to discover that someone else, namely KL1993, had done it before me. They say that great minds think alike. What follows is a verbatim copy of his profile text.
But before that, I’d like to clarify what I mean by a toxic player. It includes people who:
- are stubborn about rulings even when facing experienced players, contradicting established rulings even when you send them a link as evidence,
- quit while you’re explaining how something is ruled,
- are rude,
- try to cheat.
On the other hand, it’s absolutely okay if someone:
- is bad at goat format (we’ve all been there once),
- doesn’t know the rulings, but asks how it works and trusts their opponent (or the links they send),
- leaves after game 1.
That’s not a precise definition, but you get the picture. Only those people should be on the list. And while I didn’t make the list myself, I know KL1993 and trust his judgment. Without further ado, here’s a copy:
I’m tired of nooby/rude/unsportive player so i’m gonna make here a little list of this kind of person just for reminding myself i should avoid them. If someone go on my profil also, it can’t hurt to know who avoid.
Antbug (think it’s possible to play charity with 2 cards left in the deck)
1NAK1 (think solemn judgment can negate 3 cards on his own and not only 1)
Umbra (play too fast + crybaby loser)
Habib410 (unsportive crybaby + tendency to insult)
Bardoc1 (crybaby loser who insult in german, because unable to pull a win versus burn).
Ava Addams (don’t respect the rules + tendency to insult, this citation resumes all :” I should’ve stipulated ‘no jars’. I will do that from now on. Disgusting cards” )
Kidcrash : don’t get the importance of asking for a resp when a trap is played, and turn mad when you explain him (not really evil, but kind of nooby)
i don’t wife thots + chain : rude sore loser.
FutureTrunks : Homophobic + Sore Loser : Can’t handle a risk of losing/morphing jar and prefer wait 30 min without doing any move than admit defeat.
Jesse Anderson : Play too fast, and don’t let other people chain their cards in response to his plays.
Morpp-SS8+ chainofdemons RedLetterMedia : Can’t accept defeat + rude player Pegasus, Maximilion : Can’t accept defeat OlSlap : Same as RedLetterMedia : Can’t accept defeat + rude player
@ : rude player + can’t accept to banish for dustshoot
GoatsAndhoes : can’t accept defeat against a lava golem.
Rob Swire : Can’t accept defeat, homophobic, rude, threat of killing and stuff like that
HolyWater : goes into rude attitude when he doesn’t know a rulling before quitting instead trying to prove he is right
Getschifty3 : Unhappy in front of a rules saying ude judge can’t make a rules and try to stall the game for 1 hour in front of a rule.
i don’t admit defeat : cheater
Bandit Keith- : Think ojama trio is not legal in goat format
BlackCipher : Think exiled force can be stopped by book of moon
ozzyy : rude, racist, homophobic, insults and so on…
lanabanana : rude, can’t handle a loss versus burn
wind-up10 : complain about policies + rude
C/a/boose : Rude + complain
brysontiller : can’t accept defeat
TheYellowBird : Too “Lazy” for banish hand
gaiadude : not fairplay + make a confusion beetween skill and luck
Mikazukinoyaiba : rude + unhappy infront of rules and stall the game before ragequit when rules are not in his favors
ezekiel berbier : rude + play too fast
Nardo : sore loser
Avarel : can’t handle to lose against burn + homophobic + wish suicide to his opposent
betacuck420 : toxic player when he lose, racist, xenophobic, and so on
YugiBoiiDAB : Sore loser, insult because he lose versus burn
Magician of Fate : Sore loser
martinlb : not polite, not banishing hand for prevent glitches with dustshoot, and don’t know the rules of the game (think it’s not possible to play mst in battle phase)
Doleee : Rude, don’t know how a chain works, insult the opposent