Our last post mentioned how we try to keep the talk polite at live poker tournaments. Then Wednesday night, an online player with an apparently long memory took us to task for something we'd written there in a prior game.
While we want to win money at online tournaments, we try to keep the mood light and have fun in our chat comments. But one person's humor can be another person's slap in the face -- especially when players can't see each other's facial expressions or grasp their moods.
"I lost all respect for you as a player," the critic wrote. We don't even remember what we wrote to cause this, but it apparently was a one-liner after the player was eliminated from the game -- a comment that player saw, but apparently couldn't answer at the time.
"For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned," Jesus warned in Matthew 12:37. We don't want Jesus to condemn us in the day of judgment, for words which might turn people away from a proper example of God and a closer relationship with Him.
We invite online players to visit this blog. So if you're visiting from one of those games, we apologize for attempts at humor which may have interpreted the wrong way. Perhaps the lesson for us is to use emoticons more, and puns less?! :-)
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