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On 10/8/2012 4:59 PM, EmpacherFan wrote:
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:35:41 -0400, EmpacherFan wrote:

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On 10/8/2012 10:54 AM, EmpacherFan wrote:
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On Monday, October 8, 2012 7:33:58 AM UTC-3, JustWait wrote:
Looks like Don and JPS successfully convinced the guy not to post here

anymore. Too bad, I wanted to talk more about ice boats...

He seemed too sensible to waste his time in the company of you and your ilk.

Sensible? Me? That's a laugh. You do have a point though. There's an
awful lot of snarkiness, insulting, threats and splitting of hairs to
wade through to find an interesting post or two, not that my standards
are that high. But what is the point of reading through a hundred or
more posts to find a good boating discussion?

We're here to help. Give us your phone number and we'll call you when
someone starts an interesting racing shell or ice-boat thread.

Oh, ok. 666-6666, extension 666. Just ask for NATAS.

Seriously, my humble opinion is that the seemingly endless snarkiness
and insulting turns off new posters and chills conversation. It sure
makes it difficult to read a thread, at least for me, because when I
come across examples of what I've mentioned, I tend to stop reading the
thread.

This morning, one poster here whose ID I won't mention, apparently
wished another poster were either dead or sick.

Well, that surely entices decent newbies to hang around, doesn't it?
He's not the only example of being nasty to others, either.

My interests in boating go beyond ice boats. Mainly I am interested in
wind or self powered boats, but I like all sorts of boats and I have
other interests too. Treating other people like **** though isn't among
them.

Well, you've got rec.boats...building, cruising, electronics,
kayak,marketplace, paddle, paddle
touring, paddle whitewater, racing, racing power, and sailing.
One or more of those may be of more
interest. But, it doesn't hurt to do as one poster suggested, use
a filter here and there.

There used to be a lot of sailing discussed on 'cruising'. Don't
know if it still is or not. Could
be it's become a cess pool like this place. A few folks just
?won't quit.

Rather than having to filter out at least half the baker's dozen of
posters here, wouldn't it be better to try to get the insulters to behave
or to just ignore them all of them entirely? I'm already not reading
a couple of posters here because, well, frankly, they're just obnoxious
and looking for a fight or dropping an insult with just about everything
they post here. If I filter out more posters, there won't be many left
here to read.

The pièce de résistance for me came today when one poster wished another
poster was sick or dead and another poster seemed to threaten yet another
poster with murder. The question that should be asked is why are such
posters tolerated?

Oh, and as far as "wishing someone bad things".... Go back and do a
search on x-man or hthek or harrykrause.. or any of the other nyms he
has used over the years.. He wishes someone dead for simple political
beliefs, almost every day once or twice with the 40-50 posts a day we
used to see from him... Just sayin'.