Bullies

[mycroft]

Okay, I agree with what you said. But did it stop for the rest of your time with them, even when the TD left? Did it stop when you arrived the next day, or the next month? Maybe what it teaches is that you can be as rude as you want to people who won't call you on it - and an IMP penalty wouldn't make that lesson any better.

 

If it didn't, of course...that's another issue. But there are other ways to handle this - my only recorder form has been for a "not obviously a violation of the proprieties, but clearly intended to throw off the opponents" issue, for instance.

 

I also somewhat agree with you about underenforced ZT policies - that's why I hate the Z term, because it leaves only bad options. Because I also know that bullying is just as possible under ZT as without it; I spent years in an environment where others were very very good at knowing what was technically legal but, over time, could lead to a response that wasn't. ZT hasn't made that game any less possible, just different. Then ZT becomes a tool of the bullies - as do the judges; i.e. me. And that is a thing up with which I will not put.