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¿Question #579?
statonv: What's the worst violation of gaming etiquette you have ever seen?

ocdspectrum: Bending my cards in a new game.
Woelf: Cheating intentionally
Jatoha: Oh geez, when we were playing Saboteur and that lady turned up the goal card to prove that she wasn't lying about where the gold was... GAH!!!!!
the manatee: Rage quit.
Caedmus: I despise kingmaking and metagaming
Spirit of 70: Storming out because you didn't get your color of choice.
fliptrackr: spillage of beverages on components
ricardofo: A friend was playing War in Europe. When his strategy failed he postponed the game to the other week. And finish the game.
daveroswell: Werewolf players acting abusive and claiming it's part of the game. (Hi Valerie...)
vandemonium: Dropping a cat on the board because someone was mad about losing.
penda: My husband and I were beating our friends at Tayu when my friend's cat suddenly "fell" [read: "was dumped out of"] my friends arms onto the board, destroying all of the tiles. Grrrrrrr!!!!!!
Chris Page: It involved a D&D game in my early teens, with a visiting player ready to jump off the far side of the second-floor balcony.
ZeroZilla: Throwing a tantrum, and a handful of cards, before walking out.
2ndinBeautyContest: Cheating by hiding winning cards. I saw it because I did it.
TheBosZ: My brother dropped a piece of peanut butter bread on my Power Grid game, peanut butter side down! Augh!
Numskull: Earlier tonight, somebody showed up 20 minutes late, and upon seating himself, his very first action was to unleash a silent but very odious fart.
ghost81: Someone taking the cards from a new player in a game of San Juan, studying them and then instructing them what to do - all unasked.
diemacher: Blatant cheating
jcarvin: Nose picking at the table!
DHEK: I don't think I've seen any big boo-boos yet.
aleo09: none.
mrspank: A friend of mine, a long time ago (I'm talking the early 1980's here), kicked a game of Risk across the room when he saw the end was near. I think four of us were playing the game. We all sort of looked at each other in disbelief afterwards.
Geosmores: cleaning fingernails with a TtR card
pairofdicelost: Passing on the right
suncrush: I have seen oh, so many I don't even know.
Blacknightjj: taking a spot in a game, then wandering around drinking, passing out, then leaving before the game ends. i know it's more then one but it all happened in one game by one person.
scriptorum: Cheating and hiding it. But that was a while ago.
cobbz20: That I have seen, would be someone bending their hand of cards so bad that they had to be straightened out so we could actually put more cards on the pile.
duLac956: A guy was watching us play Pickomino and told us all what to keep and what to re-roll... for the whole game!
Badgeroonie: continual rolling of dice whilst pondering an attack, until the correct diceroll comes up.
arkibet: not paying attention to the game, but because you're staring at the board people think you're engaged. Then after 10 minutes of thinking, they say, "Whose turn is it?" And you're playing a simple game.
vampywife: i wasn't there, but my hubby was...one of the guys in our old group lost a game of mag blast and walked out.
jasta6: Had a player point out, then count out a move for another player to target me because I was tailing him in Dawn Patrol.........
Kubilai: Attending to a declared gaming evening although not being interested in gaming and then trying to push other activities.
BeeCeeJay: There was a guy in my gaming group years ago that was incapable of playing a game without cheating... it was rather pathetic.
jellospike: I say: "Put that full glass of Pepsi away from War of the Ring!" and I get a "Why? No way."
WatchmanX2000: cheating in almost any form, whether it's been lying about a die roll, or pretending a secret event that was written down was something else.
Android: Farting at the table.
brainrob: A player in last place (by a LONG way) deliberately spoiling play for others.
LemonyFresh: A player busting my X-Bugs-Tiddler after repeated pleas to be more careful
Syrion: I really hate kingmaking. There are also some players who seem to bring a little too much competitiveness to the game. We're friends. We should stay friends, and the outcome of the game should not affect our friendship. Games are a method of expressing and enjoying friendship, not mauling each others' egos (or taking it too seriously if someone plays competitively against you).
GuyHill: my brother throwing his RISK pieces & box at me
POvidiusNaso: I was playing poker (for cash) and a 16 year-old kid who was playing kept folding by revealing his cards face up, dramatically altering the information that was known. Not only that, but they kept doing so after I told them to stop.
CharlieWonka: flicking someones elses figure in a game of bloodbowl
TMJJS: Someone playing a 2 hour game for 1 hour and then saying they have to leave to play in another game getting started
tipigi: Cheating on dice rolls during a role playing game (Darren this means you!!!)
ssmooth: Not the worst, but don't you just hate it when somebody who's not playing comes to the table and says, "Oh, so and so is much better at this game than you are."
Lord_Prussian: I probably participated in it, but don't really know.
Snappatoon: Not letting me win
familygaming: Chris cheating at MechWarrior several times every time he plays.
heli: I try to forget these... how about screaming at the opponent or throwing the dice?
puffinge: That would be the game of Settlers where the guy said if I didn't give him the deal he wanted, he was going to trade his entire hand to the leader for one card.
skrutsch: Dropping the counters in french onion dip.
2amp: a guy threw his cards on the table, said "i don't want to play anymore" & stormed off. i never went back to his place...
melissa: Probably just the old "refusing to participate" - taking random moves that screw up the game for everyone else.
gnomehome: Does physical violence count ?
harisiadis: Cheating is the most usual. But I find more annoying when people play the game too seriously and become angry and insulting during the game.
Scott Tepper: A yelling fight over the implication of cheating.
steadym: Bits abuse
Randy Cox: Eating and drinking at the table. Specifically, after I told the dweeb he couldn't do that with my game. He don't game 'round here no more.
DJinSD: leaving in the middle of the game because they weren't winning
DenverWolf: Saying that the "Dragon Stance" card modifiers in Kung Fu Fighting were unrealistic because it's really more of a defensive stance than offensive.... and meaning it.
isolated: Someone not paying attention and failing to reveal a card in a Clue game thusly causing me to lose and make a spectacle of myself.
BaSL: cheating
isbert: putting cards/components in one's mouth
Tim Synge: Favourable trading with a partner in Bohnanza. "Don't discard that, I've got a cocoa bean here."
statonv: Asking the same question on BGG twice.
tragicpoet: Greasy ass fingers on brand new games.
Eric Haas: I once saw someone quit a game because he was not winning at the end of the first turn.
CortexBomb: Refer to my answer to the shocking question...
Blackwind: what is gaming etiquette?
thoia: Hearing multiple times in a game day "That's a loser move" by someone who felt they were king of all gaming situations.
lexen: someone calling his wife a (&#@&$%) pardon my french although it's not really french....
Dave: At a convention, leaving an event in the middle of play for another event.
DangerMouse: Cheating on final scoring in a game of Ra. Cough up those 5 points XX!
P.O.G.G.: personal verbal insults when the game didn't go as another had wished
wtrollkin2000: Someone in my college club without saying a word scooped up their game (that we were playing) and left. They never game back and I never found out why.
chaddyboy_2000: People that throw the game once they realize they've lost.
netfilterz: Cheating...
tp_ryhansen: cheating
Ludocrazy: Player threw down cards and stomped out.
BobDodgerBlue: Throwing the game board across the room
Shakar: Cheating.
jttm: Moving a piece for someone else without their permission
viogression: Cheating
CDRodeffer: Punching someone for winning.
snoozefest: whining about being attacked, especially in a 2-player game!
jens_hoppe: In a heated game of Titan, player A throws coffee at player B. Player B responds by kicking player A in the face. :-/
manowarplayer: Fisticuffs at a local gaming convention.
queequeg: I apparently Mayored when I should have Crafted during a game of PR on BSW (boy did I catch hell!).
Mike A: I have kids. Is there no end to the depths of their depravity when it comes to gaming etiquette?
Jim_P: Leaving a game in the middle of play
Der Das: Tipping the board. Unless it was my brother, I loved it when he did that. *grin*
Magnus the Blue: Nose pickin'
Flyspeck23: Someone explaining the rules to everybody after he was given just a quick overview himself.
Draugnar: Wanting a mulligan after an entire turn has passed
djlg: Someone going for the high risk big win, missing it, throwing thier cards onto the board and refusing to play the last few turns.
PopeBrain: toss the board
simon craddock: board tipped over
janiera: Cheating
Gelatinous Goo: lack of mercy for an honest and correctible mistake
xandryyte: This was the last game of werewolf on the last night at a con. The village was big with a random number of werewolves. I was one along with 3 or 4 others. Twice in a row she got 2 of us, the second werewolf lynching was me. I watched a little before heading to get some sleep. Darned if I didn't see her peeking!! :O I told the mod and he took steps to see if she was, she didn't then but was soon lynched and it was mentioned to everyone that it's against the rules to peek (yes, yes, I know, unless you are the little girl), she denied it, instead of fessing up. How annoying!
ValJor: My groups are mostly quite tame. I would say that a guy accusing (ten times in a row) the other of breaking a promise to a third one was the worse
dietevil: Men who insist on "helping" women figure out their move, even if the woman is more experienced at the game than they are.
EYE of NiGHT: Walking out mid-game. Not bothering to finish when you're last is bad form too.
TamiWhitsett: asking to join a game as it's getting started, then asking to leave partway through the game to go play something else.
skelebone: I've not seen many violations of etiquette, but I would say cheating and collusion would be pretty egregious.