http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-deadly-sins-of-online-gaming/

For those unwilling to click:
7. Item Poaching
6. Quitting Out
5. "Hump-o-Philia" (thankfully hard to teabag in Vendetta)
4. Level Abuse
3. Team-Killing
2. AFK-ing
1. Exploiting

Discuss.

I admit to #2.

EDIT: And I beg to differ on your opinion about #5.

Forgive me Lord, for I hath sinned.

Back in my Starsiege Tribes days, I realized that many maps had symmetrical spawn points. If the map had everyone start outside, I would switch to a Railgun and squeeze off a shot without touching my controls for an instant, one-time headshot from two kilometers (more than double visual range). That's a #1, though it could only be done once per map.

Also, back in my days of playing Space Cowboy, I would take my gear and sneak behind the front lines during a big war to lay waste to any and all who appeared in the lower-level maps on the enemy side, until the screaming got so loud that a couple high-levels of their own came in to throw me out... when I would log out and play an alt so my rampaging could continue at some later time. Serious #4 and mild #2.

Yeah I admit to some serious #2.

Those who admit to #6 and #1 I despise.

"Yeah I admit to some serious #2" Hahaha! Me too. And I don't mean AFK.

There is nothing wrong with 5. I've actually won Halo games by teabagging. It was CTF, and it was 1 to 1 with the other team on offense for the final round. They technically had a chance to win, but it was total butchery...they never got close to the flag. Finally my friends and I "ran train" on one of them (a well executed teabag where you form a line and all go in turn teabagging the corpse), and they quit with a minute left. So instead of a loss...instead of a tie... we got the win.

Also it's a great tactic against hardcore game playing losers. They tend to get super pissed off and lose their heads in the face of excessive baggage.

Oh, do I love scoring a kill on those 'leet' players in CS:S but I refrain from teabagging since it doesn't cross my mind and I rather pop a few rounds and watch their corpse dance.

Nothing wrong with #5.

I've done #3 when bored (but only in games with friends where dieing didn't matter)

And me and a friend have done #4 when bored in Diablo 2 LoD. (Pali + Zon = fun n00b killing!)

Those defending #5 must be joking. Or the bad kind of frat bois.

People who complain about #5 encourage such behavior by being so vocally offended.

I've had a history of number 3, just ask leebs, also number 2 a lot (right now probably) number 5 never occurs to me cause im immediately looking for something else to light up.

does using busguns count as level abuse?

I AFK quite a lot, and I've been known to stockpile truly ridiculous things, so put me down for a #2 and a #7.

Tosh, I think I just proved (QED motherfucker!) that teabagging is a legitimate strategy that helps you win. Also like Chaos said, it's fucking hilarious to hear how pissed off people get. And Surb, I think you can roll teabagging and corpse shooting (and whacking/grenade-ing/spinning) into one category of asserting your superiority. Tosh, I think you are getting bogged down with the literal understanding. In gaming, teabagging isn't as much "Oh I put my balls in your mouth" as "I just kicked your ass you suck." If hardcore players gave the same reaction for me saying "Good effort" I would do that instead of bagging

Whoa, look out, smittens! I didn't say that. I said that getting pissed encourages the behavior; it's those who engage in it who think it's hilarious when the other team gets pissed off.

It is a legitimate strategy because of that. It's not what I would do. What would happen if a good team, instead of whining, took advantage of the team who is suddenly goofing off? That would change everything.

Yeah, I can picture smitty as being the kind of dork who would train his Halo team to work on a coordinated teabagging scenario.

<sigh>

Still, no one admitting to #1 or #6 is good. Although I know there are those of you out there in VO who do it...

Ewwwwwww Halo.

For a moment, I thought #6 was the "1337" player with the alt-code loaded name tag kicking the player that was beating them, but either one is just as bad. When that's the case, though, it's very common to be a victim of some seven year old admin pulling #6 in such games as CS:S. So I think if someone has done #6, they are usually the type that would not admit such a crime.

I admit to serious #2-age, though xD... A lot of it...

And unfortunately...I'm afraid L4D has become a victim of a lot of #3 :/. Anyone on that game can go on a server and just shoot all of his teammates and lock himself up in a bathroom lol. So in that case, I have done a bit of #3 in self defense... Once a server we were playing on had a guy that would just shoot us, so we shot him in the spawn room every time before we went out.

Chaos, I don't complain about it. Time in a match is too much of an issue to be spent on such things. It just makes me think 'What an idiot, I hope I'll never meet him' and carry on.

I only speak/type in Halo (to take your example) if I think I see obvious cheating or if I think teams are unbalanced.

Wait.. where's the "ur mom" insult?

meh, guess that's not a sin.. just.. stupid. heh

break19

I never minded the insult-happy players (I suppose it would fall under #5 anyway), because it meant they had to hold still to type. All the better to snipe you with, my dear ;)