On Monday, October 8, 2012 7:08:44 PM UTC-3, JustWait wrote:
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 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?





You have no idea what it used to be like, just a short few weeks ago.

Just google back a few weeks and see for yourself. The thing with don

and slammer just went ballistic a few weeks back too and that is what it

is... Anyway, many of us are trying to lick the wounds of 15 years of

"the poster I wish were dead", and don isn't helping. As to harry, yes,

I wish he were not here for the last fifteen years, saying nasty things

about my family and children, chasing my business customers and

threatening to interfere with said business, posting info on the

business and even some of my more conservative customers, running

background checks on posters here and using that info to slander and

smear them and myself and who knows who else, chasing other female

posters to their marinas, taking pictures of them on the sneak and

posting them here driving them from the group, I could go on... Yes, my

hatred for harry does not make me proud but I am not alone, I am just

the only one willing to admit it... And sure, I have fought with him

over the years and even had my go with slammer but I fixed it, and let

it go... I didn't go chasing him around like don has been doing to

slammer for weeks (slammer is e#c# or whatever). Don goes after me just

about each and every post he makes but I pretty much ignore him too and

we did our thing a while back.. Most here will tell you I have been

pretty much trying to stay out of the crap for a while now, especially

lately, as I am very busy with another project of my own.... I am not

here throwing any insults at anybody with each and every post, I am not

chasing posters around the net to other groups like one of the folks

here is, I am willing to talk boats even if I don't know as much as some

others here.... But yes, for the things harry has said about my

children and myself and wife over the years, I do hate him... I can't

deny that...

Are you back on crack cocaine?
Anyone can do a search on you and find posts over in the alt.guitar.bass where you were posting personal info about Slammer/e#c and indicating that you found info on him in more groups. That's how I got the info I needed, thanks to you.
It was between late 2010 and Feb of 2011.