On Dec 5, 11:47*am, "Larry L" wrote:
A survey of both the number and the quality of posts to ROFF has confirmed
what many have suspected for many months.

ROFF is officially in an intellectual recession.

"It seems as people have just stopped investing mental capital in the ROFF
market place. * *Long years of fear developed as nearly ever investment has
met with down spiraling nastiness seem to have caused people to move to
other markets, or simply bide their time hoping for improvement before
risking further capital." * said a source that wishes to remain anonymous.

Wow. Other fishing sites where the content is smarter AND sweeter than
ROFF?. Im impressed. Sign me up. Care to share the names of these
wondrous sites?

See, Ive been under the delusion that a problem endemic to middle-aged
men particularly retired execs, is that many are so used to getting by
with unchallenged, sloppy thinking, and being deferred to without the
obligation to present the reasoning for their thinking, . . . that any
questioning of their ideas, or even exposure to alternative viewpoints
in a free-wheeling exchange induces apoplexy in their stuffed shirts.
Such folks also seem to have problems with questioning coming from
women, worker bees, young people and uppity folk of the minority
persuasions.

Boy oh Boy, if I could just find a fishing group like you say exists.
Somewhere with posts newer that a few years old, somewhere with posts
not cherry-picked from ROFF, somewhere with posts not dominated by a
Know-it-all legend in their own mind . Somewhere with posts that did
not exclude anything outside the world of fishing. Somewhere where
many of the posters were not avatars, but actual people who
occasionally got together to fish and socialize. Somewhere where
adults could vigorously argue fishing topics and lots of other stuff.
Somewhere where a pain-in-the-ass could be told to ****-off, without
inducing a blood feud. Such a site would not be for everyone,
certainly not for the insecure, not for the wall flower, not for the
authority bound.

Hummmmm is that ROFF?

Dave
Yep, it is for me.