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Chuck Gould wrote:
Speaking of the nature of the group; for my two cents worth I really don't feel like I have a dog in the hunt anymore at rec.boats (but morbid curiousity draws me in when a thread attacking me or boatingforum erupts). I'm getting nasty emails, flaming PM's, and other "fan mail" from folks who believe I've got some magical power to dictate how often people who post to both groups post here, or the content of their posts at this NG. Any rational person knows this is far from true. So even though this place is part of the past and not part of the future as far as I'm concerned, I think it's a shame when folks stand around peeing on the corpse of what was once a useful and enjoyable group. If you're as done here as I am, why not leave Nosepicker, Freak, Wally, Ugly, et al to try to rebuild this thing in peace? I suspect that Scottie's little scouting mission to the boating forum was maybe only the first of additional nonsense that might ensue by other folks confused enough to believe that boatingforum is sending trolls over to rec.boats to stir things up. Heck, one of the folks here even accused somebody of posting Chinese tennis shoe spam to rec.boats to drive traffic to boatingforum. Unfortunately and unfairly, boatingforum is being judged not by the content and tone that actually prevails there, but by the nature of posts that some people who post to more than one boating board are posting elsewhere. To that end, it would be useful if those folks posting to more than one group didn't mention boatingforum elsewhere, especially in wrecked.boats. It would be useful, if for nothing more than general peace and harmony in the universe, if we all restircted our postings everywhere to things we would be willing to say in person.....(while having a confrontation in a biker bar)...but that's my personal opinion, it's been well known for a long time, and that opinion was one of the motivators for starting a group where a standard of civility is expected. I'll refrain from "advertising" here. As far as what I am willing to say in public, though, you can be sure I'd address some of the creeps if I met them face to face the same way I do here. |
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