"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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bb wrote:
On Sat, 22 May 2004 14:16:49 GMT, wrote:
It is a lost cause... A few people here just use this as their own
playground, and the topic of cleaning up comes up every few months.
Actually, the topic is brought up more on a weekly basis.
In the end, the only comments you will receive are around "Well, YOU
seem to be posting off topic,
Oh, I see plenty of people who agree with the complaints about off
topic posts.
or What about YOU...."
Well, that's a valid question to the complainers. What have they done
to improve the group? How many on topic posts have they made before
complaining?
Very few if any. Most of the whiners want to suck down whatever
knowledge there may be here about boats, without donating anything they
know, assuming tney know anything worth knowing. Which is doubtful,
since they don't contribute, for the most part.
Harry, ever stop to think that most of the newbie whiners are exactly
that... NEW at boating. Most of them CAN'T donate any useful knowledge
until they gain some by "sucking down" some of the posts here. In addition,
if a newbie would "donate" information and it wasn't 100% correct, guys like
you would jump down their throat telling them what a stupid idiot they are.
I haven't been here long, but I can tell you that I have donated to this
message board on a few occasions. I find it hard to "suck down" as much
knowledge as I had hoped though, because most of it is OT political garbage.