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Originally Posted by camaraderie
JRP...with respect...I asked Craig to cut out the political crap on this thread twice and was told "no way". I then reported the thread to you mods and asked that off topic posts be moved to political forums or deleted. I waited 24 hours and got no response from any mod. Then... I started posting global warming stuff in political threads and political stuff here to make a rather obvious point...the point being that even in off topic, there are commonly understood rules that make sense and need to be enforced by the mods. I am perfectly willing to delete ALL my off topic posts or have you delete them IF you are gonna start enforcing some basic courtesies around here and there is only ONE person who is screwing things up around here and you know exactly who it is and need to deal with him. BTW...that does not mean I want you to shut him up. Just keep him the hell on topic and kill his tripe when it appears in threads where it does not belong.
Failing that...I will continue to follow the same rules that apply to him.
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Cam,
In case there was any lingering doubt from my previous post, I agree with the point you were making about respecting the subject matter of this thread.
Also, I think anybody with more than a few brain cells firing will recognize the difference between the substantive and "non-substantive" posts in this thread. After detecting the pattern, I've found it easiest to simply ignore non-substantive posts and focus on those with actual content.
I do not advocate deleting any of the posts -- I think they serve as a useful lesson in why it's worth the effort to stay on-topic (i.e., otherwise the thread really becomes worthless). But if you or anyone else wants to go back and pull some material down, that's up to you.
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Originally Posted by craigimass
Always remember, when you can't make your point in a debate, just jump up and down. It's pretty funny!
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Craig, I have to say, that is probably the single most ironic comment I've ever read on SailNet. I have a much better understanding of your debate strategy now.
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Originally Posted by craigimass
Cam, you are showing disrespect to the owners of the site and the mods.
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No he's not. He is frustrated and venting about what he perceives as your repetitive efforts to de-rail a thread that he's invested much time in. If you posted to the Cape Fear 38 thread like you post to this one, I'd be pretty ripped too.
We get a lot of drive-bys where folks drop opinion bombs and then never return. We can't do much about it, but fortunately few of them do it repetitively. If you want to be a steady contributor to this thread, stay on-topic. Find evidence to support your position or refute opposing views and present it here. That should be easy to do if research confirming MMGW is as definitive as claimed.