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Originally Posted by noraTRD
Vercetti, I am a female playing poker longer than most here have lived. It's a man's world. Not only are all players referred to as male, but male players are allowed great latitude. I have seen them call women all sorts of names....c____, etc. There are many, many problems with the Party Poker site, but Borgata and others are not much better.
I scream when the sites crash, when I get kicked off and so on. For sure, these things need serious attention.
Changing the system to "player Vercetti will use the clock," seems a simple, easy and quick fix. Why aren't players who degrade and curse at women not blocked from using the site for a time. The other day a player threatened a player and family! That player should be banned.
Party Poker is still in the dark ages in many ways. Vercetti, your point is well-taken. In my experience, it is rare for male poker players to see so clearly as to gender issues.
I get told to die probably around 20% of the days that I play online poker (often by specific methods - grease fire, cancer, aids seem to be pretty popular). I also have it wished that my mom gets raped or my children die (I don't have any children). I have been told that my wife is a whore. I have ethnic slurs hurled at me though I am often not a member of such ethnicity.
If you report the chat, a lot of sites will ban the offender's chat. I have never reported it because who cares. It is just someone whom I have never met typing mean words at me, many of which aren't even applicable to me.
P.S.
Though, a lot of the times it is this one person doing this talking. Every time he plays,, he eventually goes off on most people at the table.
Last edited by Lego05; 01-25-2015 at 10:27 PM.
Reason: misspelled "typing" - it was a typo