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Well, so much for our new poster...
On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:59:23 -0400, EmpacherFan wrote:
In article , says... On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:35:41 -0400, EmpacherFan wrote: In article om, says... On 10/8/2012 10:54 AM, EmpacherFan wrote: In article , says... 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? As the newsgroup isn't moderated, banning is not possible. How would you go about solving the problem? Trust me, simply saying "Please" won't do the trick. |
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