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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 3396175, member: 181"] You revealed much by jumping so instantly to the "participation trophy" trope. Not my words and certainly not my point of view, so pretty easy to dismiss the pushback against something I didn't say that you did. . If it's your policy, I can't object, but you phrased it in such a way that suggested a compliment sent by anyone would be a wrong message and disrespectful. That's the distinction between your use of the pronoun "it" rather than "I." You'd already used the pronoun "I" to state what you really wanted to do but couldn't. That would make it easy for me to misunderstand you. A loss is a loss, and a win is a win. On that we can agree. I spell UConn with a capital C, because Connecticut is a proper noun. I have no idea why you use a lower case c. Could just be an error or typo on your part. Oh yeah, and I've only been answering your initially asked question about why any of what I wrote matters. If you were clearer that you were being fully personally expressive and simply frustrated by the tension between wanting to offer a compliment and the principled position not to, then I simply register that I don't share your policy, even if my offered alternate would be a suggestion if you asked. Oddly enough, all these words add up to, "Whatever." [/QUOTE]