Could this game benefit from a game option setting "Pedant/fun" mode, where we select how strictly we apply certain undefined gaps in the rules to allow things/not allow them and therefore to filter pedantic buzzkill players who seem to take things far too seriously and exclude otherwise valid clues because <insert pedantic reason few people seem to care about>?
They can then have their super pernickety games unencumbered by those folk who just want to have fun and a bit of light-hearted banter without querying every round's clues in too much detail. I'm not saying anything goes, but I've had perfectly reasonable clues excluded because:
1) (i quote) "i don't know what it means"
2) misleading/tangential (in their opinion only) eg glass for onion, despite it being both a modern day film and a well known Beatles song.
3) it has the same root (when it didn't)
4) no hyphens, despite the word being a valid word in its own right if you ignored the dash at the end.
5) a word that is one word being excluded because one variant might use a hyphen in a different spelling that they assume is the only spelling (snotrag if anyone's interested, still rejected even after 4 people said it was ok, and links to three different online dictionaries were provided showing it could be spelt with or without a hyphen)
It's tedious arguing with such people. I find them buzzkills and after a few rounds it's just no fun to play with them. It seems to me a co-op game doesn't need the level of pedantry that a few people seem to take it to, and in some cases do so with outright sneering nastiness that just make it unpleasant to be in. Worse are the ones who when shown to be wrong in disallowing clues then get abusive in the chat for the next 10 rounds. It's so childish and unnecessary.
They can then have their super pernickety games unencumbered by those folk who just want to have fun and a bit of light-hearted banter without querying every round's clues in too much detail. I'm not saying anything goes, but I've had perfectly reasonable clues excluded because:
1) (i quote) "i don't know what it means"
2) misleading/tangential (in their opinion only) eg glass for onion, despite it being both a modern day film and a well known Beatles song.
3) it has the same root (when it didn't)
4) no hyphens, despite the word being a valid word in its own right if you ignored the dash at the end.
5) a word that is one word being excluded because one variant might use a hyphen in a different spelling that they assume is the only spelling (snotrag if anyone's interested, still rejected even after 4 people said it was ok, and links to three different online dictionaries were provided showing it could be spelt with or without a hyphen)
It's tedious arguing with such people. I find them buzzkills and after a few rounds it's just no fun to play with them. It seems to me a co-op game doesn't need the level of pedantry that a few people seem to take it to, and in some cases do so with outright sneering nastiness that just make it unpleasant to be in. Worse are the ones who when shown to be wrong in disallowing clues then get abusive in the chat for the next 10 rounds. It's so childish and unnecessary.