Wordfeud League of Honour

Now you´re making the whole group wait again by still not playing against me!!!!! Ordly Judge and other administrators are also waiting for you, but you´re not doing anything about it, are you? You clearly have no respect whatsoever!

The 72 hours deadline was designed to give the flexibility so that if someone does forget, or have an emergency or no signal for a day or two, they still have chance to catch up. It was never intended or anticipated, however, that any player would think of going in to play their oldest game and not also play the others!

You´ll definitely survive those days, so just forget about it. It´s not an insurmountable problem, and you won´t experience any disadvantages or advantages, side effects like withdrawal symptoms.

However, there are others who (could) only experience unpleasant consequences caused by your "5 minutes to play before the deadline" strategy.

All those who ensure the site keeps running day in and day out and that we can even play Ordly, with Ordly Judge leading the way! So think about that instead of your three days of heartbreaking Ordly loss!

There are always things they have to arrange and problems to solve, season after season, in all divisions and groups! Usually, they can only make lists/complete statistics, etc., at the end of the season, after all the matches in the group have been played. Only then can they make the right decisions, make adjustments, etc., regarding various matters, irregularities, etc., to restore order. You have no idea how many hours a day they spend on this on average! For them, that time between seasons is not just welcome, but essential! The faster they can arrange everything during that time, the greater the chance they´ll actually have a day or half a day off!

The time from a match´s release date, meaning from when it can be played, until the deadline—the same time you wait before playing—is not just your regular supporter making you wait for results, but also, and especially, valuable and potentially free time for those people (administrators, etc.) that you carelessly waste, and then do so right to their faces, and then you even feel the need to make sarcastic remarks.

Show some respect and deference to them, as well as your fellow players and opponents! So, first and foremost, stop waiting to play until just before the deadline, game after game, please! It can always happen that, for whatever reason, you´re just in time to play, but not so consistently and season after season. That´s no longer a coincidence, but bad intentions. No one expects you to play online every day, but they do expect you to play every match that might be available.

This way, you show respect for your opponent and you´ll earn their respect for you!

Besides, just because there are no competition matches doesn´t mean you can´t or shouldn´t play "Ordly" matches. You can play as many practice matches as you like, 24/7 if necessary, until you drop and don´t even want to hear or see the word "Ordly" anymore! Or do you think those practice matches are only for new, beginning players?

And attention getting, no, honestly I think this whole conversation is interesting but ridiculous. However, now that it´s started, I would like to know if anyone is actually going to answer my question as to why it´s a legitimate imposition for me to play at the end of the 3-day period.

In no way am I doing it to spite other players - that idea never crossed my mind, and I don´t understand why you are defaulting to inferring malice as the explanation behind the timing of my game plays.

So that is an answer to your question Centrumspits. Now I have a question for you:

Why is it a problem for me to wait and play my game at the end of the 3-day period instead of at the beginning? I do not understand why the late timing of my plays has a detrimental effect on other players in the group. For WordFeud, if I delay my game play, then that forces the opponent to play quickly in response to my moves in order to finish the game before the deadline, and if they´re in a different time zone or if they happen to be busy when I finally make my move a day later then it puts them in a difficult situation. The same is not true for Ordly. The timing of my plays has zero effect on the timing of an opponent´s plays, nor does it have any effect on the final outcome at the end of the season. Whether you know if you´ve won the match on day 1 or day 3 after a game has been released, the final score will still be exactly the same.

When I finish an Ordly match and it says "Your opponent has not yet played," I find it suspenseful and look forward to checking the results the next day or the following day to see what the results of the match will be.

Unfortunately, we won´t know for sure until the sweeper/red flag passes.

Pffffff.... It seems like an eternity, so slow! 😁😉

Congratulations!! Good luck in Division 1 next season!

Thanks naganalf15 and dudkay for the exciting end of the season! It was definitely a close call. I saw you effortlessly cross the finish line first, dudkay! Everything was going swimmingly, you know. What happened along the way that naganalf15 still beat you at the finish? Muscle cramps, acid reflux, mechanical problems...??? Oh well, whatever it is, next season you´ll probably be riding away from everyone else in the peloton with ease!

When I post long(er) posts here, I (usually) use Google Translate to fill in the gaps in my English vocabulary, and even then, the results are still disappointing. For example, due to a misinterpretation by Google Translate, the text takes on a completely different meaning. Then I adjust a few words and/or sentence structures here and there and try again as long as my message is clear and cannot be interpreted differently, to minimize any resulting misunderstandings. That´s why I spend a lot of time on it when I´m (forced to) "let off some steam" about such (controversial) matters.

He apparently thinks I´m one of the few Ordly players who get annoyed by this. We know better... The only thing that was unusual about me was that I couldn´t contain myself from expressing my displeasure. His completely disrespectful reaction to Ordly Judge´s urging him to stop waiting for the deadline for every game was the last straw for me. But well, according to him, it´s just harmless banter between him and Judge. Maybe that´s how it started, but I highly doubt it! Ordly Judge really meant it, certainly didn´t find it funny, and he certainly wasn´t laughing about it either, that was pretty clear, right?

Unless your nickname here is SparklingMarmalade, of course!!

Then you laugh all that stuff off, and you laugh at anyone who disagrees with you, and you add fuel to the fire by being sarcastic and biased. But give a decent, logical, acceptable explanation/answer as to why he does this and continues to do it despite everything? No, not at all! Just empty, meaningless, off-the-wall answers like "because it´s possible" and "it´s not in the rules that it´s not allowed"! That´s just like a small child answering "Why?" with "Therefore," and when you then say "Therefore there´s no reason," that annoying teenager adds, "And if you fall down the stairs, you´ll be downstairs quickly," while laughing right in your face.

Now give me a meaningful answer! Why and/or what do you think/want to achieve with it?

Now just like you Centrumspits, I´m really curious what his answer will be but I guess it´s going to Benthe same shit as usual....

Now answer me one question honestly. What do you gain from waiting till the dead line to play your word other than spiting your opponents? It is not that you get more thinking time to find your word since you can only start a new word once the other is finished. So you get the same 24 hours everyone else has. If you can give me 1 reasonable reason I will gladly stop this ridiculous argument. And I’ll state in advance that “because I can” or “the rules allow me to” will notbe considered reasonable.

So: why, other than spiting your opponents do you wait till the deadline for playing your word?

Socially acceptable? Is there an honor code when it comes to the timing of playing Ordly matches? When I was in school, if an assignment was handed out on Monday and due on Thursday, I never had a teacher that complained if I turned it in on Wednesday night.

I must say, when I happened to notice your comments last night, I broke out laughing. Declaring with certainty that my response to the Judge´s comments was rude shows your own personal bent. My message could just as easily be interpreted as playful joshing, which was my full intention. It´s a stick that is so far up your ass that you could puke it out of your mouth that is causing you to interpret my actions in such a negative light.

There´s a book titled The Presence Process that is about internal work and self healing, and one of the things the author discusses is projections and reflections. If someone has an overblown response to a situation that other people are also experiencing without having the same reaction, then it´s indicative of an internal conflict within that person, and not something related to the external situation itself. I think you should read that book and introspect on your reaction to this situation under its guidance. I think it´d do you some real good.

Now if you´ll excuse me, I have an Ordly match I need to play before the deadline - tata!

Alleszins veel succes gewenst!!

Congratulations!

Sorry for spouting my unvarnished opinion so freely here, but that´s just how I see it, and the truth must be told, right?

I could have perhaps done it more subtly, but simply doing this without mincing words, not beating around the bush but being straightforward, is a relief.

I completely understand if you found my post a bit off-topic and had to delete it!

And then, if you do go online on the first day of play, ask Ordly Judge a question that´s answered an hour later, go online again that same evening and respond, and then on the third day of play you still haven´t played a single match!? I find that strange... but okay, maybe it can be explained logically and plausibly up to that point, but that´s where it ends. Personally, I find the rest of it far from socially acceptable...

When Ordly Judge asks him if he plans to play again and reiterates his opinion on the matter, sparklingmarmalade´s reaction isn´t exactly friendly; "rude" is a huge understatement!

I find his reaction sarcastic and extremely arrogant! He has absolutely no empathy, nor does he show any respect for anyone or anything, not even Ordly Judge.

That´s my personal opinion, anyway. I don´t expect anyone to agree with me. I just wanted to get this out here because I´m incredibly annoyed by this kind of behavior, and now I´m frustrated by Sparkling Marmalade´s

CENTRUMSPITS, CANTERSNICK, AGRIFFA, KURT W., DUDKAY and THYMALLUS are tresourous people of a kind you would not believe existed, people who out of their pure generousity donate to WLoH and keep the site running.

The winner gets promoted, the two last players will be relegated. With this many terrific players it is hard to tell you who wins, but I guess Centrumspits will top the table at the end of the season.