When should you be considered a newbie basher?

[McIvan]

A newbie basher, to me, is someone who waits for new and/or poor players to post seeking opponents and grabs a game against them. Anything else gets very subjective....probably too hard to judge.

Possibly good players are better off posting looking for opponents, rather than replying to other players posts (unless the other players are clearly veteran/very good), so people can decide for themselves whether they want to take them on.

Personally I'm just getting opponents via tournaments at the moment and not taking any more on otherwise, so let the dice fall where they will....the further you go, the harder they get.

You are setting a fine example, Pete....keep it up :)