BoatBanter.com - A note to RPB users new and old

ospam (Larry Cable) wrote in message ...

All you have shown me is that you lack the intellectual capabilities to engage
in a civil debate without degrading it to name calling. Plus that you parents
evidently didn't teach you any manners.

First off, I was making a civil argument, not about spondoms, but
about the prevailing attitude of this group in general that you did
not like, so YOU started using foul language and name calling. I, like
clockwork, fell for your troll.
As you were obviously uncomfortable with my point of view, YOU were
the one who turned it into a foul mouthed, name calling thread...
effectively ending the debate. Sometimes this seems to be a standard
here in rbp, don't like the message, troll the messenger, end the real
debate... (Maybe Wilko should add this practice to his troll page).
Anyone interested in the truth as to who was trying to debate, and who
turned it into a flame war, just read back through this short thread.

Secondly, my Mom, who I just lost, had nothing to do with any of this.
Maybe I did not listen to her as I should have while she was here, you
would have to go far to do more for children and young adults than she
in her very successful life, right to the very last days... even on
here death bed, she was only concerned with my dad, me, and the dozens
of "adopted" brothers and sisters I have aquired over the years. My
dad at 86 is still continuing the work, God bless him.

Third as to my "lack of intellectual abilities", your writing style,
and specifically your lack of comprehension, shows no more education
or intellectual ability than I. And as I noted before, the internet is
still not just for educators.

I warned people about Tim for the same reason that I warn people not to play
with rattlesnakes.

Do you really go around warning people about that? (Sorry, sarcasm...)

I don't make people take my advice, I just tell the the
reason why I think that its true. You evidently don't care if it true or not,
so why bother responding.

Get the chip off your shoulder. This is an international group that is supposed
to have some rules. It's an unmoderated group, although people just like you
have just about screwed that up in the past. Neither WIlko nor I have claimed
to have any ownership in the Newgroup, just that certain etiquette should be
observed. Don't like it, who cares.

I still think my concerns about how posters outside the circle here in
RBP are treated are legitimate. Out of the several groups I frequent,
this one seems to have this happen, almost as a standard. I also
believe that this attitude and your (plural,group OG) own personal
inability to let folks debate without attacking, or belittling them is
responsible for the demise you all seem to blame on one guy from the
north.

RBP, your own shallow view and continually driving anyone that is out
of step, out of the group, along with the inability to answer
questions without ego, sarcasm, or distain for new faces on the river,
has made RBP stale, not some idiot selling sponsons once or twice a
frekin' year... or even me! It is you and yours. That's why so many
real professionals and manufacturers don't bother coming to this
particular group, although I do hear form some of them off list here
and there. On in particular that was driven off a couple of years
back, what a loss to have lost the input from a main manufacturer of
something you ALL use on the water.

And as much as you may not think so, I have personally been able to
use my internet abilities to help literally scores of folks build and
enjoy their first boat, and along with their families send photos and
letters of thanks on a regular basis for the last few years. It is a
real good feeling to see families who once were total strangers to me,
come together and have a successful build, literally because of my
input, and then to hear them acknowledge that and see the smiles on
the photos and the pic's of the finished boats they send me. This may
be something a lot of folks here may never experience, because in
order to do that, you gotta be willing to just give lots of time and
info, no ego, no agenda, NO CHARGE, and just because... The fact that
you don't like some of my personal opinions does not mean I don't have
(having built over 50 ultralight boats under 20 feet long in the last
several years) something to add to almost any boating forum, except
probably this one.

Anyone who wishes to continue any of these points, please take it "off
list" to the email address I am posting from, or visit my contact page
at SmallBoats.com. Civil discussions will be addressed.
Scott Ingersoll

Bloink

SYOTR
Larry C.