Over use of the term "donk."

[jasonv12]

The term donk was originated from the idea of a donk bet (bet into the preflop aggressor) and went on to mean a bad player since that is usually a bad move. It had nothing to do with donkeys or bad play directly until way later. lol

Also, there was a poker player who did a case study that proved that losing players were something like 30x+ more likely to use the word "donk" to describe one of their opponents.

Just be the better person.

[Wiresunderneath]

I have adopted the following practice. If someone who has just lost a lot of chips calls me a "donk" (and since I am terrible, this is often), I use some version of the line "Don't scare the fish."

[Swordcall]

I try and not insult people in game if I can help it (even if the deserve it)
Getting players mad at you is rarely a good idea if your trying to push them around in the game.

~SwordCall