Five Day Chatroom Challenge

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. :-)

BTW, Harry has excelled, except for a few political posts. -- John H

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-- John H

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Dork. :>)

And I try so hard.

Participants would need to assume responsibility for their own behavior, and not allow it to be dictated by the bad actions of others"

How about thou appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours? Will you ignore that?

And just to keep this boating related: Thy brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage.

Ignnore that last one dumbass. :>)

Look at what happens when someone like Bill Grannis posts something here of a technical nature. In short order, the great troll of the southern hemisphere shows up with fangs bared. Well, that's how most real discussions here got tossed into the dumpster.

I think I'll just wait and see, eh?

GMT.

-- Skipper

The country is full of X-Cons.

<chuckgould.chuck@gmail.com> wrote in message

With the droolers eliminated from my sight, what's left is about a dozen of us who are serious pleasure boaters and of these, maybe a half dozen post on any regular basis.

I do discriminate a bit. I don't count those "boating posts" I would consider throwaways. I think you know the kind I mean.

So what does that leave to discuss, Chuck? Got a list of subjects that hasn't been exhausted that would interest a group widely scattered geographically?

I've got some stainless steel tubing and am thinking of putting together a trolling rod holder that will handle slip into two existing stern rod holders and handle four rod holders whose angles I can adjust. Exciting, eh? I can handle the welding, but I have to find a good local motorcycle shop to handle a bit of pipe bending for me.