On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:42:55 -0500, Reggie Smithers
wrote:

Don White wrote:
Reggie Smithers wrote:


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.



Above is an example of why this newsgroup may improve a bit...but will
never reach the nirvana some posters claim they desire.
We seem to go around in circles, blaming the previous poster for keeping
us in the gutter, while adding our own attacks.
'Round and round it goes...where it stops, no one knows'

Next please...!

Don,
I don't believe I have blamed anyone, but one of the reasons rec.boats
cruising is so successful as a boating forum is they have been very
successful in ignoring those who come into the NG with the sole purpose
of disrupting the NG. They not only ignore the person when he is
trolling for a fight, they just ignore them completely. The person gets
bored and just moves on.

My question to you is do you enjoy using rec.boats.cruising as a boating
forum? Don't you think it would lose something if it the group suddenly
started responding to cut and paste political articles or inflammatory
trolls?

Reward good behavior, and punish (by not responding to) bad behavior.

That's my new philosophy. Bad behavior can be done in the timeout room, a.politics.

--
John H.

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