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Five Day Chatroom Challenge
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. The occasional offenders, not mentioned above, would need to participate as well. 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 the gauntlet is thrown. I'm in for the five days. Anybody else willing to experiment to see whether the overall tone of the chatroom/NG would change if a group of the worst offenders modified their behavior here? If not, things will be at least slightly better for five days while I personally follow the 5 guidelines. It's solstice. The world is taking a new slant and the sun is coming back (to the north). Wouldn't this be an appropriate time to stop the decline of the NG and bring a bit of boating sunshine back? It would be a holiday or Christmas gift to the group, from the group, and for the group. :-) |
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Five Day Chatroom Challenge
Chuck,
I am way ahead of you. That has been my MO for a number of days now. 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. The occasional offenders, not mentioned above, would need to participate as well. 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 the gauntlet is thrown. I'm in for the five days. Anybody else willing to experiment to see whether the overall tone of the chatroom/NG would change if a group of the worst offenders modified their behavior here? If not, things will be at least slightly better for five days while I personally follow the 5 guidelines. It's solstice. The world is taking a new slant and the sun is coming back (to the north). Wouldn't this be an appropriate time to stop the decline of the NG and bring a bit of boating sunshine back? It would be a holiday or Christmas gift to the group, from the group, and for the group. :-) |
#3
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Five Day Chatroom Challenge
ps - I hope you enjoy my new name ; ).
"Smithers one of 1000's" Smithers of a 1000 names wrote in message ... Chuck, I am way ahead of you. That has been my MO for a number of days now. 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. The occasional offenders, not mentioned above, would need to participate as well. 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 the gauntlet is thrown. I'm in for the five days. Anybody else willing to experiment to see whether the overall tone of the chatroom/NG would change if a group of the worst offenders modified their behavior here? If not, things will be at least slightly better for five days while I personally follow the 5 guidelines. It's solstice. The world is taking a new slant and the sun is coming back (to the north). Wouldn't this be an appropriate time to stop the decline of the NG and bring a bit of boating sunshine back? It would be a holiday or Christmas gift to the group, from the group, and for the group. :-) |
#4
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Five Day Chatroom Challenge
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? |
#5
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Five Day Chatroom Challenge
"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? LMAO |
#6
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Five Day Chatroom Challenge
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? |
#7
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Five Day Chatroom Challenge
"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. |
#8
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Five Day Chatroom Challenge
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. |
#9
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Five Day Chatroom Challenge
"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. |
#10
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Five Day Chatroom Challenge
I'm in, although I reserve the right to "grandfather" any existing threads.
They're about to fizzle out anyway, so it shouldn't have much of an effect. |
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