Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
JLH wrote:

The folks over in a.politics would love your chaos, especially if it's
political or religious and results in a lot of name calling.
I can't believe you *prefer* that.

Hmmmm - perhaps a small, slight twist of phrase would be in order.

How about "ordered" chaos?

Chaos is a concept and in the context of rec.boats and my discussion
with Chuck, it pertains to the off-topic threads as they often appear
here. It's a relative term and not meant, in this discussion anyway, to
be taken literally.

Perhaps I should have used disorder rather than chaos.

Tom,
I enjoy a lively discussion, unfortunately most political discussions in
rec.boats focused on "your an a**hole", "I know you are but what am
I". The problem for rec.boats was that no on topic discussion could get
past one or two responses before it reverted to "your an a**hole", "I
know you are but what am I". Rec.boats still has Off topic discussion,
some political in nature, but at one time the cut and paste news
articles had turned rec.boats into 95% cut and paste and the "your an
a**hole", "I know you are but what am I" responses. There was one
person who would cut and paste 20-30 news article a day, and then would
actually discourage discussion by encouraging others not to respond to
the right wing excrement except to hurl insults.

No one can force or enforce a Newsgroup policy, but if the majority
agree that the insults are a waste of time, the quantity of silly flame
fest will decrease.