Skipper wrote:
Do you have a final solution to the Harry
Krause infestation?
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Skipper

I have a Crescent wrench solution. One size fits all infestations from
any source, (sort of). While many people like to dump all the blame on
Harry, there is plenty to go around.
Your skirts are not entirely clean, nor are mine, nor are many others'.

Consider the following parable:

A man visited his doctor to complain, "Doc, every time I raise my arm
above my shoulder, it hurts like hell!"

The doctor said, "Well, that's easy, just don't raise your arm above
your shoulder."


If every time somebody responds to a troll in rec.boats the group goes
to hell, then the anwer is easy. Nothing looks more lonesome or more
foolish than a troll that nobody is responding to. If you think Harry
is a troll, don't respond. I am making a not-always-entirely successful
effort to control my own responses to trolls, stay out of ****ing
matches, and avoid name calling. I believe that there are other people
in this group specifically *to* engage in that sort of behavior, but it
is not my place or right to judge them or demand that they change their
ways. If I control my own destiny and don't let other people determine
what my reactionary behavior "has to be", the group will be a little
bit better than if I go out of my way to pick fights, call names, start
attack threads, join in a pig pile, etc. If one or two other people
also try to stay out of fights, avoid name calling, avoid pig piling,
and refrain from launching attack threads then the group gets better
yet.

None of us can decide what the "group" will do, nor can/should we wait
for the group to modify its behavior before we take responsibility for
our own. At least that's my opinion, as requested, and its an attitude
that might work to take the group back from the brink of extinction.
Things are currently about as bad as they have ever been in the NG, and
far, far worse than the recent average. Too bad, IMO.

Have a pleasant Saturday, I'll be off to help my Mom celebrate her 75th
birthday tomorrow.