LOL,

GMT.


"NOYB" wrote in message
nk.net...

wrote in message
oups.com...
Our NG has become a chatroom.
No other way to define what has happened, when 90% or more of the
content is OT and 50% or more of the OT posts devolve into political
name calling and flame fests. Boats are probably mentioned more often
in a general chatroom, by accident, than they are here on rec.boats on
purpose.

I propose a 5 day challenge to the entire chatroom.

For five days, let's pretend we're a boating newsgroup.

That would be the remainder of today, the 20th, through Saturday the
24th.

Eastern or Pacific time?

Tom,
All of those are ok, I will let you know when you find one that isn't.


"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On 20 Dec 2005 08:54:36 -0800, wrote:


P Fritz wrote:
Harry's disorder still clouds his mind.........i.e. I'm not the
problem,
everyone else is. Maybe harry can start a thread on the pleasures of
storing a boat in your driveway 364 days a year.

Did you notice Chuck's well meaning advice:
"For this to work, anybody who
elects to participate would have to be adult enough to ignore
violations by others rather than use those violations as a
justification or an excuse to resume OT trolling, flaming and chatting.

Participants would need to assume responsibility for their own
behavior, and not allow it to be dictated by the bad actions of others"

So if I call you a caluminous common-kissing mumble-news you will
ignore it?

How about thou appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent
congregation of vapours? Will you ignore that?

And just to keep this boating related:

Thy brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage.

Ignnore that last one dumbass. :)

Harry Krause wrote:

See how easy this is? There's one of your two boating topics if you're
up for the "chatroom challenge". Why not write up a couple of
paragraphs about welding and bending stainless steel? Somebody will
find it at least as exciting as most of the content seen here lately.

Oh, I used to post things like that, but I stopped, as did a number of
other posters. Why? Because some drooler would post that "doing it that
way is completely wrong, and you should have done it the other way, and
so on and so forth." Not that I mind alternative methodology, but the
generally antagonistic atmosphere is off-putting.

Look at what happens when someone like Bill Grannis posts something here
of a technical nature. In short order, the great troll of the southern
hemisphere shows up with fangs bared. Well, that's how most real
discussions here got tossed into the dumpster.

I think I'll just wait and see, eh?

One of the greatest assets of Usenet is the divergence of opinions
regarding on-topic subjects/procedures. The *reader* is given the
opportunity to 'shop' the variety of routes offered. Get it wrong, and
you can be sure you'll hear from a Karen of Oz or Bill Grannis. This is
not a bad thing, it's the intelligent way for an open forum to
investigate alternatives. This also gives an open board a distict
advantage over the BoaterEds of the world.

--
Skipper

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:27:45 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:


Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:02:26 -0500, "Smithers one of 1000's" Smithers
of a 1000 names wrote:


The Droolers, that sounds like a good name for a yacht club. ; )

Or a band.

Sorry, Tom, but you don't qualify as a drooler. I know that is a major
disappointment for you. :}


~~ sigh ~~

And I try so hard.

I'm betting you were successful when you first laid eyes on that Halman 20.

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On 20 Dec 2005 08:54:36 -0800, wrote:


P Fritz wrote:
Harry's disorder still clouds his mind.........i.e. I'm not the
problem,
everyone else is. Maybe harry can start a thread on the pleasures of
storing a boat in your driveway 364 days a year.

Did you notice Chuck's well meaning advice:
"For this to work, anybody who
elects to participate would have to be adult enough to ignore
violations by others rather than use those violations as a
justification or an excuse to resume OT trolling, flaming and chatting.

Participants would need to assume responsibility for their own
behavior, and not allow it to be dictated by the bad actions of others"

So if I call you a caluminous common-kissing mumble-news you will
ignore it?

How about thou appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent
congregation of vapours? Will you ignore that?

What if you called him Kevin?

"Smithers one of 1000's" Smithers of a 1000 names wrote in message
...
LOL,

GMT.


Not fair. That gives folks from Australia an extra 16-18 hours to speak
without a response.

NYOB,
If you lived in Australia you would understand why they deserve something
extra.

The country is full of X-Cons.


"NOYB" wrote in message
ink.net...

"Smithers one of 1000's" Smithers of a 1000 names wrote in message
...
LOL,

GMT.


Not fair. That gives folks from Australia an extra 16-18 hours to speak
without a response.

"Smithers one of 1000's" Smithers of a 1000 names wrote in message
...
NYOB,
If you lived in Australia you would understand why they deserve something
extra.

The country is full of X-Cons.

Our ex-cons *lose* rights...rather than get "something extra". Unless, of
course, that that something extra is an GPS ankle bracelet.

Damn it........I have to clean the monitor again

"NOYB" wrote in message
ink.net...

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On 20 Dec 2005 08:54:36 -0800, wrote:


P Fritz wrote:
Harry's disorder still clouds his mind.........i.e. I'm not the
problem,
everyone else is. Maybe harry can start a thread on the pleasures of
storing a boat in your driveway 364 days a year.

Did you notice Chuck's well meaning advice:
"For this to work, anybody who
elects to participate would have to be adult enough to ignore
violations by others rather than use those violations as a
justification or an excuse to resume OT trolling, flaming and chatting.

Participants would need to assume responsibility for their own
behavior, and not allow it to be dictated by the bad actions of others"

So if I call you a caluminous common-kissing mumble-news you will
ignore it?

How about thou appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent
congregation of vapours? Will you ignore that?

What if you called him Kevin?

wrote in message
oups.com...
Our NG has become a chatroom.
No other way to define what has happened, when 90% or more of the
content is OT and 50% or more of the OT posts devolve into political
name calling and flame fests. Boats are probably mentioned more often
in a general chatroom, by accident, than they are here on rec.boats on
purpose.

I propose a 5 day challenge to the entire chatroom.

For five days, let's pretend we're a boating newsgroup.

That would be the remainder of today, the 20th, through Saturday the
24th.

During this period of time, I propose that the group of worst
offenders, self included, take the lead in this challenge by doing the
following things.

1. Refrain from launching any sort of political or religious thread.
2. Resist name calling and put personal feuds aside.
3. Resist the temptation to respond to any political threads trolled
through the NG
4. Launch a minimum of two boating-related threads (not required of
non-boaters)
5. Evaluate the effectiveness of this 5 day challenge on December 25


For this to work at all, I believe we need Harry, Basskisser, JimH,
John H, Doug Kanter, Skipper, NOYB, P.Fritz, and Smithers (under all of
his 1000 names), to sign on.


I'm in. And my killfiling a couple of constant offenders listed above will
help. ;-)