Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:

I enjoy a lively discussion, unfortunately most political discussions
in rec.boats focused on "your an a**hole", "I know you are but what
am I". The problem for rec.boats was that no on topic discussion
could get past one or two responses before it reverted to "your an
a**hole", "I know you are but what am I". Rec.boats still has Off
topic discussion, some political in nature, but at one time the cut
and paste news articles had turned rec.boats into 95% cut and paste
and the "your an a**hole", "I know you are but what am I"
responses. There was one person who would cut and paste 20-30 news
article a day, and then would actually discourage discussion by
encouraging others not to respond to the right wing excrement except
to hurl insults.

Well, that's a casualty of the infoweb. Usenet used to be a valuable
resource for questions and information. You think this is bad, wander
through some of the more political blogs and see what happens there.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - most of the "flamers" here
are amateurs and bad amateurs at that.

No one can force or enforce a Newsgroup policy, but if the majority
agree that the insults are a waste of time, the quantity of silly
flame fest will decrease.

I quite agree.


Reggie, of course, has a well-deserved reputation as one of the biggest
flamers ever here, along with his reputation of posting here under about
50 different identities. There's nothing quite like his sort of
self-righteous a**hole.