[lubonay]

Here's an idea: the gaming community as a whole needs to come together and think of the most offensive insults possible, that do not refer to race/gender/religion/nationality, but rather refer to player skill or the wider gaming culture.

We can have a non-phobic, egalitarian swear-off!

[zimablue]

Once something is agreed as an acceptable insult it's not as much of an insult. This it like trying to hold back the tide.

Much the same way that the medical word for what used to be called retardation and I don't know the current PC word for has to be constantly rotated. Whatever that word is, is precisely what people want to call each-other.

[kgran]

Maybe I'm wrong about the offensiveness of these, but lamer and n00b are sort of neutral.