Mike Connor writes:


I used to like this place, the camaraderie, discussion, the friendly
help
and information that was dished out freely. D


Dave LaCourse wrote:


Codswallop! Get over yourself, Mike. This is usenet not the local
PTA.


Kind of interesting that you're both right.

This IS a place where people used to share freely information related to
flyfishing and occasionally tying, and would delve into the periodic
off-topic thread related to politics, personal issues or computer use
and it didn't REALLY get too ugly... AND it IS the USENET, it NEVER was
the PTA... but then again, I seriously doubt that many of you have ever
attended a PTA meeting, so you probably don't have any first hand
knowledge of how ugly THOSE can get!

I think the point Mike was raising was one can choose to avoid the OT
posts by simply deleting them, or choosing not to read them, but the
same people who post major discourses and publicly relish attacking one
another in those threads continue their vitriol into the threads on
flyfishing and attack one another's opinions as if they were trampling
on their political and/or moral ideals there as well.

Look at how people seemingly went out of their way to attack the poster
a month or so back who "had the nerve" to post a few questions about
line weights and rod sizes relate to a pile of tackle that had been left
to her by family members and referred to herself as a "newbie" and was
attacked for BEING A SHILL... even if she WAS a shill, to what benefit
would it have been to come here and ask the types of questions she
asked? Even if she had been provided some resources to look into
further or direct answers to the questions she posted, would sharing
that knowledge have been "against the ROFFian Code"??

It just goes WAY TOO FAR here sometimes... you guys take yourselves WAY
TOO ****ing serious... like you said Louie, it's the USENET...

Larry