BoatBanter.com - View Single Post - Lighten up folks: A Revisit of the *Challenge*

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If our unmoderated group is going to be a group, it is useful every so
often to hash out some understandings (no, not rules) about how the
majority of the group prefers to interact...

Is that not what a NG charter is for? This NG was formed for the
discussion (primarily) of recreational boats and boating. What
percentage of current NG posts have anything at all to do with charter
compliant topics? That says a lot about the current health of the NG.
Should this problem not be corrected, the NG will retain its reputation
as a bad joke and continue to drive serious contributors away, IMO. Half
the current contributors are capable of lucid on-topic contributions.
The real problem is that fully another half is not, again IMO.

It will be interesting to see who prevails in this NG tug-o-war.

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Skipper