On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:22:47 -0500, Reggie Smithers
wrote:

JohnH wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:31:53 -0500, Wayne.B wrote:


On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:31:24 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:


Being called a scum sucking pig f*cker in one thread may affect one's responses in
other threads.

If you avoid inflammatory commentary the chances of drawing that kind
of response are very slim.

And there's always the kill file. If someone offends you, make them
go away. If they offend everyone they'll soon be talking to their own
computer.


I think one would be hard pressed to find any political thread that's ever been in
this newsgroup that wasn't loaded with inflammatory comments from both sides. It's
the nature of the beast.

JohnH,
Sometimes you just need to stop responding from anyone whose stated
purpose of participating in rec.boats is to "make it lively", who has a
long history of inflammatory comments, whose finds boating discussion
boring. As Skipper mentioned they might clean up their act short term,
but very quickly revert back to political trolling, name calling and
trolling for any possible fight. After all, as some people believe a NG
of boaters discussing boating and other issues in a friendly manner is
just boring.

A person can be trolling for a fight, or the same person can be discussing something
without the troll. I have no problem with a friendly discussion about 'telephones',
for instance, with anyone. If I feel the discussion is becoming inflammatory, I'll
just stop replying. It's easy.

--
John H.

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes