Just signed up at i.boats, thanks for the link ,,, adios rec.boats

"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Some people want a lot more structure imposed than the rec.boats format
allows.

There's a promising site at iboats.com

Lots of categories, rather than none, so if you are only interested in
reading
about outboard repair (for example) that is the only category you need to
see.

About the second or third most popular category is "Dockside Chat", where
people are allowed to discuss the issues of the day, etc. Just took a look
this
morning to discover a bunch of conservatives reassuring one another that
Bill
Clinton actually awarded Haliburton the contract to clean up after the
Iraq
war. It was rather amusing.

What is different between the iboats.com and rec boats is the tone of the
posts.
If somebody posts, "I think brand X or Y builds a decent boat
because....." the
poeple who disagree will raise boating related counterpoints. All too
often on
this site the responses are, "well, they'd build a better boat if Bush
hadn't
exported all of our skilled trade jobs to India" or "you're a
miserable and pathetic idiot to have that opinion. You've never been on a
boat
in your life, you LSOS!"

Even on dockside chat, the comments and responses are restrained. One of
the
conservatives made a comment in the single thread I examined, "Thanks to
(another conservative) for posting the truth! This board has far too many
liberals on it these days." but I didn't see the personal
flames, a case of two guys deciding where to meet between Maine and
Georgia to
duke it out over a difference of opinion, etc.

IMO, the folks whining about rec.boats ought to check out this site. It's
probably everything they hoped rec.boats would be, and they don't have to
change human nature to see it happen.

I believe the folks griping about OT posts are simply crying out for a
more
structured format. Good news, such formats are out there.