I floated the idea of writing an article for the blog about Dominion Online etiquette and wanted to revisit it here.
Here are some possible points I'm considering covering:
1) Pre-game greetings; what to say, how to respond. Is it necessary? Does anyone care?
2) Chat behavior & meta-gaming. Is there an appropriate way to complain about luck? How does one respond to such complaints?
3) How far back can one reasonably request Undo? How does one deal with Undo requests?
4) Resigning, quitting and ending the game. When should one resign? When should one NOT resign? Is running up the score acceptable? Am I obligated to pile-out?
5) 'gg' and post-game behavior (including offers to rematch, etc.).
With that in mind, my questions are:
1) Is this a worthwhile endeavor? If so, is the blog the right place for it, given that this would be primarily about online etiquette? Would this be better suited to the ShIt forum?
2) If so, my first inclination was to workshop and research the article here. Is this the best place to research it? Should I create an alt-account and solicit opinions in ranked games?
3) Should the article be descriptive or prescriptive? Is it enough to try to cover the current etiquette landscape and present varying perspectives on each of the items listed above? Or should it (with well-researched input from the f.ds community) be an attempt to shape online etiquette? Is it naïve to think this community could try to establish its own set of standards? To what degree is that already happening?