[nicus]

Hello dear brisge players
It is always nice to greet people as you meet them so is good to have a chat a table.
But some of us are unsatisfied just to be happy to play bridge and to be polite, so, they start insulting each other.

I think everyone has been, at least once, witness to an embarrassing dialogue at the table. (between opps)
or, they start talking in their native language and you have no ideea of what they are talking about and they don't care of your ask to stop this.

I would like to have an option (a mute button) to disable chat at the table for current deal (no option to turn back on), and automatically resets on deal change.

I say no option to turn back on, because after end of play you can chat in private with your partner if you like. And to avoid intentionaly missuse turn on and off and on and off...

Of course this is usefull in tournaments not on private tables.
I know I can always ignore chat, or report, but I think it will be a tool very usefull for everyone to "punish" the people that want to show their "superiority"
So eventualy noone will tend to use trivial chat because they would have nowhere to talk anyway.

Regards


Nic

[mycroft]

In a tournament, the recourse is the director. If it is a violation of the proprieties, then there's a Law for that.

What if, after table chat was turned off, the next question is "what is your carding?" If you mean private chat can stay, the insults will just go private. If you don't, then how is bridge played.

And Oh it is so scary that they won't speak English for ME. Never mind that their English is about as good as my Spanish. It's Not Fair! There's an app for that, which if you don't want to use, the director certainly can if you are actually concerned they're talking "a language you don't know" to pass information. Of course, your discussions with partner to the table, they aren't "in a language we can't understand, and they don't care", right?

And who gets to do it? And what if partner is the one insulting?

And a tool to "punish" people that want to show their "superiority"? Think about what "I get to decide if anyone speaks at the table" is.

Now, I assume you would only use this responsibly. But others, well, they would "use it responsibly" - i.e. "my opinion matters more than anyone else's"; and others yet have yet another tool to bully people.

I'm not saying that what we have is the best of all possible worlds, nor that there isn't anything that can be done. But this ain't it.

[jcalex2]

I keep google translate open in another tab, works great when someone is chatting in a language that you do not speak