Originally posted by Oldman731
I encourage everyone to please just stuff a sock in it. You're going to find people who hover above the fight, dive to take the pick or the HO, run to ack, run to friends, and do other things that you might justly consider to be unsportsmanlike. When this happens, yell at your dog, or at your pet hamster, whatever works, but please keep it to yourself.
I could tell you to stuff a panty hose in it but that would be stooping.
You are not the dictator of culture. The culture of any group is defined by how the group reacts to particular behaviors not by edict.
Example: No rule against vulching in the AvA, it rarely happens because players get called out for it and publicly derided by both sides. If most players wanted vulching then the complainers would be derided and vulching would be the norm.
To not discourage is to encourage. If dweeby behavior is not discouraged dweebs will stay, more dweebs will come, soon we would have more players but a MA culture. Hey, if it happens it happens but we don't need to consent by silence.
I don't expect a bunch of players who will up in any plane, against any odds, with various disadvantages and charge into the fight get shot down and charge right back in to be touchy-feelly, but rather determined competitors. If someone is so emotionally and mentally weak as to be upset by text (that can be turned off) they probably won't be much fun to fight against anyway.